Brett Beattie

Head of Procurement
Opal Specialist Aged Care

Brett is an experienced and qualified procurement professional with exposure across end to end procurement processes and is responsible for the effective management of all group wide direct and indirect spend. Brett has gained his procurement experience from over 12 years in the Pharmaceutical, Health Care, Environmental Services, Logistics, Engineering and Manufacturing sectors through Australia, Asia Pacific and globally. This experience has seen Brett take on remits for creation and execution of building sustainable procurement and risk mitigation strategies, policies, procedures, related functions and teams.

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Main Conference Day 1

Tuesday, December 6th, 2016

12:30 All-star panel: How can you better engage with different stakeholders in your company in order to move procurement from an administrative to a value add function?

-How can you communicate the benefits of strategic procurement to colleagues across the business?

-What should you present to your top management for 100% buy in and support?

-Training your team to communicate your value proposition: How can you ensure your message is spread throughout the organization?

-Managing pushback: What relationships should you cultivate to ensure that any pushback is quickly resolved?

-How must the message change to appeal to different businesses, cultures and skillsets?

Main Conference Day 2

Friday, January 6th, 2017

14:10 How can you adapt your procurement procedures to match your company objectives and maturity level?

-Shared services in the procurement industry: How to manage the change that it brings

-How can you effectively roll out a company wide shared services strategy?

-Outsourcing: What business units are most effective to outsource and how do you effectively outsource them?

-How do you maintain accountability of the outsourced portion?

-How do you actually measure the effectiveness of the outsourced relationship?