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Title: Chief Procurement Officer Company: Google Industry: Technology

When Google decided to build its first centralised procurement function, it turned to Jennifer, a choice that speaks volumes about the reputation she had built across more than twentyfive years at the sharp end of global procurement. Her career trajectory is almost without parallel: senior roles at ZF Group, BorgWarner and Lear

Corporation in automotive, followed by CPO positions at Tate & Lyle and Diageo, where she delivered significant operational transformation and cost savings across two very different industries. At Google, she is doing something genuinely unprecedented, architecting a procurement function from the ground up inside one of the world’ s most influential companies, while simultaneously leveraging AI and machine learning to re-engineer cost structures and enable revenue growth. Her impact extends beyond operational performance: under her leadership, Google has exceeded its diverse supplier spending goals.

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