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Chris Holmes is the SVP Global Sourcing at life sciences company, Avantor. Chris has held various leadership positions in the procurement organisation with responsibilities in developing, implementing, and leading the supplier performance and innovation team, transforming the procurement function into one procurement team, and leading the global procurement strategy. As a passionate advocate of sustainable procurement and the circular economy, Chris joined ‘The Sustainable Procurement Pledge’ as a Sustainable Procurement Ambassador in 2019.

On this week’s episode Chris and Maria discuss: 

• The untapped value that can be gained by redefining procurement as an innovation hub. 
• How supplier-led innovation goes hand in hand with building long-term resilience and achieving sustainability goals.
• Why procurement is in a lucrative position to drive both.

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Frances Edmonds is the Head of Sustainable Impact at HP. As the Head of Sustainable Impact, she is responsible for setting the sustainability strategy, implementing it, and driving business value. Her passion for sustainability and the circular economy, coupled with her relentless drive in furthering this agenda, has been instrumental to HP’s success, with HP Canada now recognized as Canada’s most sustainable technology company.

On this week’s episode Frances and Maria discuss: 

• Why sustainability is an environmental and business imperative.
• How HP Canada’s relentless pursuit for it is paying off.

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Maria Villablanca (Host)

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Arjun Bhowmik is the VP Integrated Supply Chain for Western Europe at the Carlsberg Group. Prior to joining Carlsberg, Arjun held several leadership positions in some of the world’s largest companies, including Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods, Cadbury, and Mondelez. Arjun’s specialties lie in managing turnarounds and culture change in large organisations, major restructuring, and reorganisations, spearheading large-scale and complex projects, and multi-category and multi-country supply chain management.

On this week’s episode Arjun and Maria discuss: 

• How leadership has moved away from the traditional ‘command and control’ role to a more empowering position. 
• The critical traits of a successful leader. 
• The practical management tips leaders should leverage for highly effective and engaged teams. 

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Pierre Mille is the Former Director of Plan & Deliver at FrieslandCampina. Pierre has spent his career working in various supply chain operations roles in the FMCG, Food and Beverage, Dairy, and Fashion/Medical Retail industry, for some of the world’s most well-known brands, including Unilever, Carlsberg Group, GrandVision, and most recently, FrieslandCampina. Pierre’s specialisms include setting global customer-centric supply chain operations and operating business models, implementing advanced planning systems, and managing large-scale supply chain transformation projects for growth, EBITA, and cash generation.

On this week’s episode Pierre and Maria discuss: 

• Why it’s time to take a customer-centric approach when redesigning and rebuilding your supply chains.
• How he successfully designed and delivered a customer-centric supply chain strategy at FrieslandCampina.

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This week we are joined by Bronwyn Williams and Theo Priestley. Bronwyn is a partner at Flux Trends and has over a decade’s experience in strategic management, trend research, and foresight, consulting clients in the public and private sector across the African continent. Theo is a globally recognized futurist and authority on the future of business, technology, and society. Theo has published more than 100 articles on IoT, AI, fintech, smart cities, education, healthcare, marketing, digital transformation, and VR for Forbes, The European, WIRED, Huffington Post, VentureBeat, GigaOM, and The Times Raconteur. The pair recently joined forces to co-author, The Future Starts Now, which provides insights and guidance on the ways society and business will transform in the years to come.

On this week’s episode Bronwyn, Theo and Maria discuss: 

• The implications of technology advancement and adoption to business and society.
• The dangers and opportunities of relying on an increasingly tech-driven way of living.

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This week we are joined by Dunc Lowe and James Absalom. Dunc has over 25 years of leadership experience running supply chain operations for international FMCG businesses. As the Head of Global Supply Chain for the  Campari Group, Dunc is responsible for the end-to-end supply chain. James is the Group CEO and Founder of global executive search and human capital advisory firm, Walter James (WJ). James is responsible for leading and developing the group companies’ global strategic growth, value, and performance. In addition to this role, James is the CEO of Euromedica, a life sciences executive search firm acquired by WJ in 2016, and the Chairman of Balwin Boyes, a board and executive search advisory firm acquired by WJ in 2020.

On this week’s episode Dunc, James and Maria discuss: 

• Why the demand for digital transformation is greater now than ever before. 
• How a fixation on the ‘digital’ in ‘digital transformation’ is distracting chief supply chain officers from the most critical component of transformation, change management.

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Stephanie Holt has over 15 years experience in executive leadership positions in STEM. She is also a passionate advocate of diversity, equity, and inclusion. As such she has spent the majority of her professional career mentoring women to help advance their careers. In March 2020, Stephanie decided to pursue her passion full-time by launching the ‘STEM Leadership Collective,’ a supportive network for women in STEM which helps women advance their careers through training and coaching.

On this week’s episode Stephanie and Maria discuss: 

• Why meaningful action on diversity is long overdue.
• What leaders can do to penetrate the glass ceiling they’re responsible for constructing. 

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This week we are joined by Professor Jeannette Song and Professor Jordan Tong. Jeannette is a R. David Thomas Professor of Business Administration and Operations Management at Duke University. Her areas of focus include supply chain coordination mechanisms, global sourcing strategies, supplier quality and risk management as well as many others. Jeanette has published numerous articles in leading international academic journals such as Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM), and Operations Research. Jordan is the Wisconsin Naming Partners Professor and Associate Professor in the Department of Operations and Information Management at the Wisconsin School of Business. Professor Tong’s research primarily uses mathematical modelling and experimental methods to investigate operations management and behavioural science questions. His research appears in the journals Management Science, Operations Research, Psychological Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management.

On this week’s episode Jeannette, Jordan and Maria discuss: 

• Why organisations must consider building reactive capacity in conjunction with holding safety stock to best deal with random demand surges. 
• Why utilising both strategies whilst emphasising scenario planning activities could be critical in preparing for the next black swan event.

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Two award-winning women in supply chain, Maria Villablanca, CEO and Co-Founder of Future Insights Network, and Sarah Barnes-Humphrey, Host of the Let’s Talk Supply Chain podcast and Founder of Shipz, sit down to discuss their experiences of being women in a male-dominated field, reflecting on why it’s so important to keep sharing these stories and learning from one another. Together, they shed light on the difference between diversity and inclusion, discuss the moral and business case for championing it, and address the impact of creating safe spaces to facilitate the conversation on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

 

About the Speaker

Sarah Barnes-Humphrey is the host of Lets Talk Supply Chain, a popular supply chain podcast, and the Founder of Shipz, a neutral bid-and-ship platform for mid-market shippers. Sarah is very passionate about supply chain, so much so that she considers supply chain to be in her DNA. Prior to becoming an influencer, podcast host, and founder, Sarah dedicated several years to her family business and helped build it.

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Many major global companies are progressing on their own sustainability roadmaps as we proceed into the ‘Climate Decade.’ But the science is clear that we must do more and quickly to avoid the worst-case consequences of climate change and take advantage of the economic opportunity offered by the transition to a zero-carbon economy. Supply chain transparency and working closely with suppliers to reduce scope three emissions will be a challenge for companies with complex supply chains. Tessa Lee, Senior Corporate Engagement Manager at the Climate Group, joins us to discuss how going public with a net-zero or other supply chain sustainability pledge needn’t become a stick for your company to beat itself with, rather, an enabling driver of your sustainability goals.

 

About the Speaker

Tessa Lee is the Senior Corporate Engagement Manager in the Climate Group’s New York offices. She incubates new workstreams and strategic program areas for the Business Action campaigns, including RE100 and EP100, and provides a suite of member engagement services to corporate members. She is also leading the Climate Group’s newly launched Sustainable Supply Chain efforts. Previously, she led monitoring, evaluation and learning at 100 Resilient Cities, pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, and before that, business development and program implementation at the Rocky Mountain Institute and the Carbon War Room, for industries including freight trucking and maritime shipping, global energy access, mining and islanded economies, low-carbon cement, and agriculture and forestry. She has a MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics, and a BA in International Relations from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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