As financial and professional service institutions continue to grow their footprints, managing their cost base and finding new opportunities to gain a competitive advantage is a leading priority. As such, procurement divisions within these industries are quickly growing in both size and importance.
This creates a significant opportunity for organisations who can get their procurement operations right and deliver responsible, efficient, ethical and economical procurement that supports the business. The Procurement in Financial and Professional Services 2016 conference taking place in Sydney from 19 - 21 July is bringing together leading practitioners to address the most significant challenges they face today and examine leading examples of excellent procurement.
Over 3 days delegates will be engaged by real-life case studies, strategic discussions and expert panels all focused on addressing some of the most difficult hurdles facing procurement leaders today. If you work within Australia’s financial and professional services sector this is a not-to-be-missed opportunity to meet senior managers from right around the country and learn from their experiences.
Why attend?
Quest Events is a leading provider of high level, industry specific procurement events including HealthProcure, GovProcure , Women in Procurement, Supply Chain Management Australia and many more, which have attract over 1000 senior PSCM managers. Procurement in Financial and Professional Services 2016 will live up to this standard, bring together a select group of senior decision makers to help them build their own skills and help thier teams achieve excellence.
Procurement in Financial and Professional Services 2016 is an event being developed specifically to address the pressing issues facing senior procurement professionals who run large teams and complex procurement operations.
Addressing your challenges:
- Implementing proactive risk management capabilities in an environment of increased regulations, tighter controls and greater scrutiny from governing bodies
- Addressing the procurement talent gap and defining the skills needed in the future
- Embracing the benefits and overcoming the challenges of digitalization within financial and professional services procurement operations
- Convincing the wider organisation of the value of procurement – getting a seat at the table
- Implementing strategic demand procurement approaches and the decision making process involved
- Delivering structural operational cost savings by identifying and steering savings opportunities
Benefits of attending:
- Discover how to make the procurement function relevant in banks – speaking the bank language “Bankanese”
- Learn how to overcome the talent gap in the financial and professional services sector by hiring, training and retaining the best
- Implement new supplier relationship management strategies to improve procurement process operations
- Develop strategies to mitigate risks of non-compliance
- Deliver structural operational cost savings by identifying and steering saving opportunities across organisational and spend category boundaries
Who will you meet?
Senior procurement managers from right across Australia’s financial and professional services sector. Procurement in Financial and Professional Services 2016 will be attended by key financial and professional services stakeholders, and decision makers with an interest or role in procurement.
You will have the opportunity to network with key decision makers such as:
- Chief Procurement Officer
- Chief Financial Officer
- General Manager Property
- Operations Manager
- Head of Property
- Asset Manager
- Facility Manager
- Facilities Manager
- Property Manager
- Procurement Manager
- Strategic Procurement
- Group Purchasing Manager
- Purchasing Manager
- Head of Purchasing
- Strategic Sourcing Manager
- Category Manager
- Supply Chain Manager
- Head of Supply Chain
From:
- Banks
- Credit Unions
- Mutual Banks
- Financial Services
- Financial Planners
- Insurance Companies
- Accounting Firms & Consultancies
- Law Firms
- Government Departments