Our exclusive cover story this month sees us sitting down with Michael Altman, Kenvue’s Head of Global Strategic Initiatives…
More than ever before, supply chains are becoming a critical point of differentiation for organisations as they compete to navigate an increasingly complex and challenging landscape. Nowhere is this more true than in the consumer health sector, where businesses are working constantly to navigate external volatility. Previously reliable methods for predicting demand and disruption don’t work like they used to; everything moves faster now, and often in unexpected directions. For an organisation like Kenvue — the world’s largest pure-play consumer health company by revenue, and maker of iconic brands like Neutrogena®, Listerine®, Aveeno® and Tylenol® — orchestrating one of the world’s largest consumer health supply chains in 2025 means being “more nimble than ever before, and ready to act quickly when an inflection point occurs,” according to Michael Altman, Kenvue’s Head of Global Strategic Initiatives… Read the full story inside.
NCC Group: Procurement transformation to a strategic partner
We also feature Ross Kellett, Global Director of Procurement and Estates, and Christopher Lindop, Global Head of Procurement at security and software escrow company NCC Group, who talk us through a procurement transformation that has boosted business while also mitigating risk…
Building up a procurement function from scratch, at a rapidly expanding company, is a challenge. But there are some who are drawn to these exacting situations, relishing the opportunity to curate a compelling function based upon their wealth of experience and expertise.
Ross Kellett joined cyber security consultants NCC Group in the summer of 2018, as Global Director of Procurement and Estates – covering both the strategic and the transactional side of the function. The procurement landscape the highly experienced Kellett inherited at NCC Group was more akin to a ‘start up’ business than the progressive function he was used to, he tells us from the company headquarters in Manchester. Encountering a siloed set-up where individuals simply ‘bartered and brought’,
it was evidently clear to Kellett back then that this was a green field site that needed a rapid overhaul if it was to properly harness what procurement could be, and do. Read the full story inside.
