Andreas Neils (Past Speaker)

Andreas is the Head of Commercial Procurement and leads a team of 6 Global Category Managers, responsible for marketing agencies, market data and research, and congress and events. Having established and developed the global marketing procurement function in 2018, Andreas introduced the Brand Champions concept and Way of Working workshops to enhance business proximity and support the implementation of global procurement policy. Having held senior global procurement roles at Thyssenkrupp and Boehringer Ingelheim, plus Grunenthal, Andreas will share how and why you should talk less in procurement language and more in business terms, in order to join forced with stakeholders to build a joint procurement and business journey.