Kent Morsch

Regional Head of Procurement
Takeda Pharmaceuticals

Kent Morsch is the Head of Regional Procurement, Americas, for Takeda Pharmaceuticals International, Co. He has a wealth of pharmaceutical industry experience, including twenty years in procurement. Kent’s current focus is two-pronged -- business partnering with internal commercial stakeholders and leadership of the global procurement project management team. He is responsible for advocating Takeda’s values of Integrity, Fairness, Honesty and Perseverance while putting the patient at the center of all that Takeda does.

While employed at Bristol-Myers Squibb and Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Kent provided leadership and strategic direction in procurement transformations – he continues this role currently at Takeda. For the past ten years, he has been an active member of the Board of Directors for the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Pharma Forum, having held several Officer positions including Chair.

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Using Procurement to Drive Value in Today’s Fluctuating Pharma Industry

Sunday, November 5th, 2017

14:10 Panel Interactive | Becoming a Trusted Advisor: Engaging Your Internal Stakeholders to Leverage the Skills You Are Bringing to the Table

Now that you’ve got the eyes and ears of internal business owners, how will you make the most of this opportunity? How can you work more closely to deliver the most value to the business? This panel discussion will explore:

-Marketing your procurement organization as a peer function who can bring solutions to the table, not just a support function looking to disrupt things

-Making sure they understand that while you are looking to save costs, you are also hoping to help mitigate risk and ensure all aspects of the business run more efficiently- thus improving quality and speed to market for their products

-Building credibility with internal stakeholders so they trust to bring you into business/resourcing decisions right at the beginning of the discussion

-Ensuring there is ongoing communication and transparency with stakeholders through business review meetings where you can be better understanding their goals and get visibility into their budgets

After 40 minutes of panel discussion onstage, we will be taking the panel to the audience and will ask small groups in the audience to discuss the panel topics- giving you a chance to be a bit more interactive!

Strengthening Internal and External Partnerships to Further Today’s Procurement Organization

Tuesday, December 5th, 2017

11:40 Aligning Procurement Operations Across Internal Business Needs to Unlock Best Value

Given the value procurement can bring to the table across different business lines, how are your teams aligning the arms of your department with different internal business partners to unlock that value? How do you ensure that your resources aren't wasted? Join this session to figure out how Kent Morsch at Takeda is:
-Mapping out his stakeholders in each part of the business
-Navigating internal networks to understand what each stakeholder needs from procurement -Rethinking how to meet these needs through simplifying processes
-Gaining trust and loyalty to make change stick
-Working to understand how internal partners are used to doing things and implement change management techniques to help them better understand your role
-Developing the right team to sustain delivery of value to your business partners