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Intelligent Spend Management Award 2024
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November 7, 2023

Intelligent Spend Management Award 2024

The winners of the Intelligent Spend Management Award will be determined by a jury composed of renowned experts from the industry, academia and journalism.

The jury will base their decision on a preselection and determine the five category winners and the overall winner.

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Portrait of Alejandro Basterrechea
Alejandro Basterrechea
Director Indirect Procurement, Zalando SE
Alejandro Basterrechea is an angel investor, author, speaker and technology enthusiast. He is a customer-centric, data-driven and tech-oriented procurement leader with +15 years of procurement experience across several industries. He has a passion for building procurement organizations from the ground up. He won the 2020 Amazon Business ABX Award for driving procurement digital journey.
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Portrait of Christine Berg
Christine Berg
Chief Procurement Officer, Beiersdorf
Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Christine Berg is Chief Procurement Officer of Beiersdorf AG and in this function she is responsible for the group-wide expenditures (~€4.5 billion) in the purchasing areas of raw materials, packaging, indirect materials & services, and marketing.
Christine Berg looks back on more than 20 years of experience in three DAX companies, both in direct and indirect procurement. Her passion is the continuous, strategic and visionary development of the procurement function. Developing people and organizations as well as fostering digital mindset and data driven decision taking are her key focus areas.
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Portrait of Lutz Berg
Lutz Berg
Head of Global Purchasing of BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
Lutz Berg has held purchasing responsibilities in a variety of business divisions and central units since joining Bosch in 2001. For example, he was responsible for direct and indirect materials purchasing and for supplier quality. As a partner in the in-house consultancy, he led various projects relating to internal restructuring.
As a leader and manager, he possesses in-depth knowledge of centralizing and leading global organizations and in implementing major change projects in the supply chain. Since October 2023, he has been responsible als Head of Global Purchasing of BSH Hausgeräte GmbH, a subsidiary of Robert Bosch Group, with a purchasing volume of 8 bn. EUR and more than 800 emplyees.

As a leader and manager, he possesses in-depth knowledge of centralizing and leading global organizations and in implementing major change projects in the supply chain. Since July 2020, he has been the EVP mobility solutions purchasing direct materials, leading the Bosch Group’s largest purchasing division with a purchasing volume of 16 billion euros, 4,300 suppliers and 4,250 employees.
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Portrait of Oliver Bischof
Oliver Bischof
Chief Procurement Officer, Siemens Gamesa
Oliver Bischof has a track record of driving procurement excellence and managing organizational and process transformation along with the matching digitalization strategy. Prior to taking on his role as CPO for Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, Oliver held various leadership positions in procurement, service operations and finance.
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Portrait of Christoph Bode
Christoph Bode
Professor of Procurement, University of Mannheim, Germany
Christoph Bode is a full professor in the University of Mannheim’s Business School, where he has held the Endowed Chair of Procurement since 2014. His teaching and research activities cover the areas of procurement, supply chain and operations management, with a special focus on risk, interfirm relationships, innovation, sustainability and performance. He serves on the editorial review boards of several leading management journals and as the spokesperson on the Academic Advisory Board of the German Association Supply Chain Management, Procurement and Logistics (BME).
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Portrait of Olaf Bollmann
Olaf Bollmann
Vice President Procurement - Central Functions, Strategy, Processes and Original Parts, Porsche AG
Olaf Bollmann has been the vice president of procurement central functions, strategy, processes and original parts at Porsche AG since 2016. In this role, his responsibilities include innovation management and shaping the digitalization strategy of procurement at Porsche. He has previously held various leadership roles in procurement at Porsche and Volkswagen. Olaf Bollmann has a degree in industrial engineering from the University of Paderborn.
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Portrait of Marco Cobianchi
Marco Cobianchi
Head Global Procurement, Schindler Group
As part of the Schindler Group since 2003, Marco has covered different management roles, primarily in supply chains and finance at both the entity and Corporate level (Company CFO, CEO, Head EU Operations, Head Global Controlling Supply Chain). He is experienced in supply chain operations in mechanical and industrial engineering industries in complex B2B environments. In addition, he is skilled in negotiation, business planning, financial controling, operations management, lean transformation and general management.

He has been the Chief Procurement Officer at Schindler Group since June 2022.
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Portrait of Prof. Dr. Lisa Fröhlich
Prof. Dr. Lisa Fröhlich
PRME Board Member, Chair of NGC und former president of CBS International Business School, Cologne, Germany
Prof. Dr. Lisa Fröhlich served as president of CBS International Business School, Cologne Germany from 2013 until end of 2022. She holds a full professorship in Strategic Procurement Management, Sustainable Procurement and Supply Chains, and is an internationally recognized expert in sustainable supply chain management. After her outstanding career of more than 25 years in academic positions she decided to go the self-employment route and will establish a think tank for sustainable supply chains. With this institute, she wants to contribute to closing the gap between relevant research and practice. She is committed to sustainable transformation and wants to use her expertise to build an international network that offers innovative problem solutions in the context of sustainable supply chains.

Prof. Dr. habil. Elisabeth Fröhlich is highly engaged in the field of Responsible Management Education. She serves as a board member of the PRME (Principles Responsible Management Education) Board since 2020, she chairs the PRME Nomination and Governance Committee, and is PRME DACH Chapter Chair. In this responsibility she is one of the organisers of the RME Research Conference, the only PRME Research Conference for Responsible Management Education. She is also supporting the UNGC as steering committee member of the Local Network Germany. Innovative teaching formats of Responsible Management Education represent one of her main research topics.

She is leading the Board of JARO Institute for Sustainability and Digitalisation and in this context offering online trainings in the field of sustainable procurement. Her current research focuses on sustainable / circular supply chain management and procurement, qualification in purchasing and strategic supplier management. Procurement 4.0 as well as organizational, personal challenges of an "agile purchasing" and new work in the context of purchasing. She has published numerous books and articles on the above-mentioned topics and supports several journals as an external reviewer.
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Portrait of Miriam Jäger
Miriam Jäger
Head of Global Procurement Indirect Materials and Services, Daimler Truck AG
As the Head of Global Procurement Indirect Materials and Services, Miriam Jäger is responsible for the global indirect Procurement Organization of the Daimler Truck AG since 2021. In her current role, she designed and ramped-up the organization after the carve-out from the Daimler AG. Her major priorities include lean operations, digitalization and intensive cross-functional collaboration to maximize the procurement value add.

Before this role, she led the Global Strategy & Governance Function for Daimler Trucks’ Direct Procurement Organization and held various positions within Roland Berger, Management Engineers and Robert Bosch.
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Portrait of Oliver Knapp
Oliver Knapp
Senior Partner, Roland Berger
Oliver Knapp is a senior partner in Roland Berger’s Stuttgart office and co-leader of the Operations practice and the global Procurement practice. He joined the company in 2000 and works in close collaboration with his clients to develop creative solutions and deliver sustainable change.

He has advised many companies on performance improvement projects and on large transformations, particularly in the fields of procurement, product cost/value management, engineering and FRUGAL products.
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Portrait of Sabine Schulz-Rohde
Sabine Schulz-Rohde
Editor for Strategic Sourcing/Procurement/Supply Chain, Beschaffung aktuell
Sabine Schulz-Rohde is executive editor of the specialist magazine “Beschaffung aktuell.” She studied German, history and education at Universität Gesamthochschule Essen and then earned a degree in mechanical engineering at Fachhochschule Bochum.

Since she completed her doctoral thesis on “EDI in procurement logistics in the automotive industry,” she has been interested mainly in B2B procurement. She has been a member of the editorial board of the German-language specialist magazine “Beschaffung aktuell” since 1996. Schulz-Rohde has been the title’s executive editor since 2014, and she reports for the procurement community on all topics relevant to procurement.
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Portrait of Kalairathan Bakeerathan
Kalairathan Bakeerathan
Vice President, Intelligent Spend & Business Network Germany
Kalairathan Bakeerathan runs as Vice President, Intelligent Spend & Business Network in Germany for several industries, including Discrete Manufacturing, Automotive, Retail, Consumer Products and Process & Life Sciences. With his various experience at SAP and previously at IBM, he is successfully leading an organization of procurement solution advisors with a strong focus on customer satisfaction. His global engagement involves collaborative efforts with leading CPOs and clients to revolutionize the field of global procurement. Drawing from his entrepreneurial background, which includes founding an IT-startup, he is passionate about exploring and advancing the role of "Artificial Intelligence", especially in procurement.
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Portrait of Gundula Ullah
Gundula Ullah
Chief Procurement & Sustainabiilty Officer, FUNKE Mediengruppe
Gundula Ullah is leading the central Procurement function at FUNKE Mediengruppe, one of Germany’s largest publishing houses. Organisational transformation and digitalization represent major landmarks in her overall career with more than 20 years of experience in purchasing throughout industries such as telecommunications, aerospace and defense, retail and – most recently – media. “Digital First with optimal User Experience” is her credo when it comes to the overall future Procurement infrastructure and plays, in her view, a major role in the overall functional transformation for the years ahead.
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