Michelle Charpentier

Director, Global Indirect Procurement
BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc.

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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!