Pauline King (Past Speaker)

Pauline started her career in product marketing in the IT industry moving into program management at UBS in Basel. She moved into indirect procurement by accident in the late 90’s at the beginning of the shift of purchasing as a back office function to strategic sourcing as a business value driver where she first encountered the topic of how to measure indirect savings. She founded a consulting company in 2016 focused on improving indirect procurement in small and mid-sized companies so as to bring rapid bottom-line impact. Prior to this, she was the Head of R&D Program Management, and Head of Global Indirect Procurement at Syngenta. During her time in indirect procurement at Syngenta, she led the transformation of the function including establishing a new operating model, rolling out new policies, processes and tools and building up the business partnering organisation worldwide. The team brought new value to the business in hard to tackle categories like legal and marketing and also delivered significant externally committed savings which were captured to the P&L via a close working relationship with finance. Prior to Syngenta, Pauline was a Senior Sales Executive at Accenture in the Swiss office. She is leading the CIPS CH Procurement Women group whose mission is to ‘Advance Women in Procurement