Bay Area procurement leaders share why companies today must be mindful of unspoken perceptions that
can constrain opportunities across the business, both financially and career-wise. Learn how these sourcing
leaders tackle these challenges on a daily basis and share what it takes to lead high-growth procurement organizations. Find out how they manage company goals, talent, team satisfaction, and even misguided assumptions.
Confidence - Talent - Impact: Making of A Procurement Leader
1. Confidence – Talent – Impact:
Making of A Procurement Leader
Rendi Miller
Vice President, Corporate Services
& Source-to-Pay at Zendesk
Jeri Sessler
Managing Director and Founder
at SDMR Advisory Services
Anagha Kale
Senior Director, Global Sourcing
and Operations at VMWare
3. #scoutspark#scoutspark
RENDI MILLER
• 13 years
• Admin - Sr. Commodity
Mgr.
• Foundational
• Travel
• Marketing
• Logistics/Supply Chain
• $150M in spend
• 6+ years
• Head of Global Travel &
Procurement
• IPO
• 400 - 4,00 employees
• $120M - $1.2B revenue
• $75M - $500M+ spend
• Procurement Operations
• Travel & Expense
• Strategic Sourcing
• Founded 2016
• Uber, AirBnB, Twitter,
Salesforce, ServiceNow
• Peer Driven
• Industry Networking
• Quarterly Events
• Joined Oct. 2018
• P2P, Strategic Sourcing,
Travel & Expense, Shared
Services
• Scaling to $1B
• People
• Process
• Technology
• Partners
• Automation
• Simplification
4. #scoutspark
• Paramedic, DeKalb and Chicago, IL 1974 – 1978
• Customs Broker, Schenker’s International Forwarders 1978 - 1981
• Manager, A.T. Kearney, 1981 – 1996
• Principal Consultant and COE Leader, West Region Procurement Practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP March 1996 – October 1999;
Principal Consultant November 2011 – September 2014
• COO, Virtual Source Network, Inc. June 1999 – July 2000
JERI DECARLO SESSLER
My Journey to Consulting
A New Chapter: Starting my Own Consulting Practice
• Founded SDMR Advisory Services, Inc. February, 2001
• We provide independent advisory services in Procurement Transformation, Contract Negotiations, M&A Integration and Supply
Chain to companies globally
Current Initiatives & Priorities at SASI
• Currently contracted to Stanford Health Care (since July, 2017)
• Creating IP that healthcare clients can use to increase the Total Loaded Value of Care
• Advising C-suite, Operations, Supply Chain and Finance executives across a variety of industries and countries to dramatically change how they
acquire, distribute, and utilize products and services, and manage risk across their organizations.
• In a career spanning over 38 years of independent and big 4 strategic consulting services, and multi-industry experience, my work delivered
over $3.2 billion in annual net bottom line improvements for my clients
#scoutspark
5. #scoutspark
ANAGHA KALE
• Agilent Technologies
• Deloitte Consulting
• Masters in Manufacturing Engineering (Umass Amherst)
My Journey to VMWare
• Developed new skills: presentation, story telling, influencing
• Change management was key
• Networking, stretch assignments
A new chapter:
• Expanding the contingent workforce program to India and EMEA (2k+ workers)
• Developing a 3rd party risk management team
• RPA
Current Initiatives & Priorities at VMWare
#scoutspark
6. What do you think is the most significantbarrier to
widespreadfemaleleadership?
How do we overcome
those barriers?
7. How have you have pursued additional
leadershiproles?
8. How do you gain the confidenceneededfor a
leadershipposition?
What do you do when you feel your confidence
slipping?
9. Can you describea satisfyingleadershiprole
you have had, andbriefly tell us what made it
so?
10. When leading ateam within a fast moving
organizationwhat are the top waysyour team
memberscan prove their value?
11. What is your advicefor up and coming talent
looking to advancetheir careers?
12. Thank You!
Rendi Miller | rmiller@zendesk.com Jeri Sessler | jeri@sdmrinc.com Anagha Kale | akale@vmware.com
Hinweis der Redaktion
Much of what we'll be talking about here is about good leadership and talent development that works for both women and men. At the same time research suggests that, given the current environment, women can face different challenges in the workplace — challenges that can make it more difficult to access stretch opportunities, networks, resources etc. In your view, what do you think is the most significant barrier to widespread female leadership? How do we overcome those barriers? - RENDI
Each of you has a demanding career and a variety of other commitments, tell us how you have pursued additional leadership roles. – JERI
How do you gain the confidence needed for a leadership position? What do you do when you feel your confidence slipping? – ANAGHA
Name one of the most satisfying leadership roles you have had, and briefly tell us what made it so. - ANAGHA
When leading a team within a fast moving organization what are the top ways your team members can prove their value? - RENDI
There's a lot of up and comers in this room - what is your advice for talent looking to them for advancing their careers? – JERI
Much of what we'll be talking about here is about good leadership and talent development that works for both women and men. At the same time research suggests that, given the current environment, women can face different challenges in the workplace — challenges that can make it more difficult to access stretch opportunities, networks, resources etc. In your view, what do you think is the most significant barrier to widespread female leadership? How do we overcome those barriers? - RENDI
Each of you has a demanding career and a variety of other commitments, tell us how you have pursued additional leadership roles. – JERI
How do you gain the confidence needed for a leadership position? What do you do when you feel your confidence slipping? – ANAGHA
Name one of the most satisfying leadership roles you have had, and briefly tell us what made it so. - ANAGHA
When leading a team within a fast moving organization what are the top ways your team members can prove their value? - RENDI
There's a lot of up and comers in this room - what is your advice for talent looking to them for advancing their careers? – JERI
Much of what we'll be talking about here is about good leadership and talent development that works for both women and men. At the same time research suggests that, given the current environment, women can face different challenges in the workplace — challenges that can make it more difficult to access stretch opportunities, networks, resources etc. In your view, what do you think is the most significant barrier to widespread female leadership? How do we overcome those barriers? - RENDI
Each of you has a demanding career and a variety of other commitments, tell us how you have pursued additional leadership roles. – JERI
How do you gain the confidence needed for a leadership position? What do you do when you feel your confidence slipping? – ANAGHA
Name one of the most satisfying leadership roles you have had, and briefly tell us what made it so. - ANAGHA
When leading a team within a fast moving organization what are the top ways your team members can prove their value? - RENDI
There's a lot of up and comers in this room - what is your advice for talent looking to them for advancing their careers? – JERI