MEET ME AT THE TOP

Salisu Uba is a seasoned Procurement and supply chain leader with more than a decade of experience across multiple sectors, including the oil and gas, finance, defence and the public sector in Africa, the Middle East and the UK.

In his current role as a Commercial and Procurement Consultant with Evolve Commercial, Salisu is responsible for technology procurement and commercial business development and offerings. Before this, Salisu was the Managing Partner/Global Supply Chain Consultant at NatQuest Limited – a supply chain firm in Nigeria. In addition, he is currently undertaking a research programme on the adoption of Blockchain technology in the oil and gas supply chain at the University of Strathclyde Glasgow UK.

He has managed and led new start-ups, organisational transformation and change across functions and regions, including recently, Africa Chamber of Digital Commerce, Home Eat Nigeria, etc. He has the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) fellowship, an MSc in Supply Chain Management from Aberdeen Business School RGU, U.K. and a PhD from the University of Strathclyde Glasgow.

Over the course of her 20-year career, which saw her work in Consumer Goods and Pharmaceuticals, Azukaego Chukwuelue has gained versatility and depth working across different fields in Sub-Saharan Africa, including Sales and Supply Chain.

With competencies in revenue growth, international logistics, demand forecasting and supply network design, she is the go-to person for troubleshooting potential operational loopholes that span across forecasting and planning, customer relationship management, distributor management dynamics, RTM & Channel development strategies, idea to market, marketing mix strategies, logistics distributions cost models, efficient procure to pay models, warehousing, import and export operations amongst others. Azukaego Chukwuelue is passionate about continuous development, as well as leadership development in Africa, and she spends a big part of her time advocating for the improvement of supply chain structures and capabilities in the sector.

Duncan Brock is a member of the leadership team of CIPS. His main role is to ensure that CIPS provides its corporate and public sector customers globally with products and services that help them develop and improve their procurement and supply team’s capability. In addition, he is responsible for increasing the number of offices and partners that CIPS has globally, with a particular focus this year on the USA. Duncan has over 30 years procurement experience as a change driver working with senior executives and procurement leadership teams in the design and mobilisation of business-wide procurement processes & delivering improved business benefits. He’s had a specific interest throughout his career on implementing category management and developing the skills and capabilities of procurement teams. His procurement experience comes from working for Ford, Mars, Black & Decker, NTL (now Virgin Media) and RSA. As a senior consultant he worked for QP Group and Future Purchasing with clients such as Diageo, Barclays & Nestlé. Duncan regularly chairs & presents at procurement and supply conferences and forums, and is a spokesperson for CIPS for media interviews.

Meet Dr Ayanda Nteta (FCIPS) is a seasoned supply chain executive in the energy, manufacturing, banking and telecoms industries across various African countries. She has 20 years’ experience and an established track record in strategic sourcing, contract negotiations and supply chain for complex commodities. Ayanda has developed and implemented various sourcing strategies, including a USD70M enterprise development fund for the mining industry.  [email protected]

Adeyinka Banjo is the Head of Procurement at Sahara Group. With a career spanning over 2 decades within the Energy sector and FMCG, he has many stories to tell. A rainmaker is a person who produces distinctive and consistent financial performance in terms of profits, ROI & cashflow for a business. Mr. Banjo is one of this breed, he is a shrewd business leader, supply chain professional, a sourcing strategist with focus on ensuring availability and affordability ultimately delivering on profit and returns. Mr. Banjo, tells us about his journey from the shipyards to learning negotiations at Harvard Law School to implementing global strategy of a multinational covering West Africa within the FMCG sector. Simplify. Structure. Action.  If you want to contact him, he is on LinkedIn under his name.

Mandla Madi has been running a competent procurement and advisory firm for 25 years with focus on supply chain technology and procurement business process modeling. Starting his career with a computing degree in the decades ago. He is a certified Chartered MCIPS. Mandla is a proponent of customer centric procurement strategy and implementation. He can be contacted on https://www.bayajulaservices.com/contact/

In this episode, we meet with Andrew Neilson. He has worked within the procurement and supply chain arena for nearly 30 years in various senior global roles across years. A chartered Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and  transport, he is recognised for both his achievements as well as his industry leading knowledge within procurement, supply chain and  logistics. In addition to the above, Andy was elected to CIPS Congress and is an ambassador for the Sustainable Procurement Pledge. He has taken those many years of corporate experience into providing  expertise to clients of any size with end-to-end commercial, sourcing, procurement, supply chain and logistics solutions on a global basis. In addition, Andy offers both procurement and sales training, designed to deliver high impact learnings specific to relationship management, value  release and project delivery.

If you are interested to know more about his work, contact Andy on [email protected] or find his profile on LinkedIn.    

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In this episode we meet Dolly Makole, the governance supremo who never shys away from leading by example. She says procurement professionals must be rewarded more. Dolly doesn't believe in consequence management as a solution for higher compliance. In this episode she opens up on her start in procurement and details how she rose to be a top procurement governance go-to-expert. If you want to know how to deal with irregular expenditure in procurement, make sure you listen to the very end, for the cure of this governance pandemic. We ask, what if the Deputy Chief Justice leading the public enquiry into the allegations of corruption gives her a call, and he asks her, for advice on possible remedial action on  governance for public sector procurement. Listen to the podcast to hear more.

On this episode Simba meets Channon Hachandi, the Deputy Head of Procurement at WFP. He is a Zambian national based in Rome, at the World Food Programme headquarters, where he is responsible for procurement to support food and financial aid to over 100 million people in distress, in 84 countries, with an annual spent of USD$ 4 Billion for the World Food Programme. WFP is a UN agency for provision of food. He started his career in finance and transitioned to supply chain. Channon relies on his questioning skills to understand stakeholders needs resulting in problem solving. He makes an interesting connection between ethics and value for money.

This episode explores the journey of a successful procurement leader Dr. Faith Mashele FCIPS – she shares her sweet moments and biggest challenges. Simba’s conversational style and questions tap into nuggets of wisdom for you. Faith is the chairperson of the CIPS Gauteng Branch Committee. She joins us on this show to tell us about her experience and career. She is the Head of Procurement Centre of Excellence for Nedbank. What does it take to rise to this level.