Procurement Magazine Sept W1 2026 | Page 61

THE ADECCO GROUP give the function the mandate, build the right infrastructure and the results follow.
CREDIT: THE ADECCO GROUP

THE ADECCO GROUP give the function the mandate, build the right infrastructure and the results follow.

“ How cool would it be if I could sit here two, three years from now and say,‘ Actually, all my procurement spend, all my procurement transactions across the globe are all in Omnea and have started in Omnea.’”
Kai came out of retirement because the challenge was too good to ignore. He rejected the conventional answer, secured the mandate to do it differently and built a procurement function that now touches everything. Ten months in, the business case is already being exceeded. The man who said he was done with transformations is, it turns out, just getting started.

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