The Buy Side

In our third and final episode with Chloe Poon, Finance and RevOps leader at Teikametrics, we continue our conversation around the impact Covid has had on existing and new software tools, how she and her team track company efficiency, and last, but not least, her theories on where the Saas finance world is headed in the next several years.

In our second conversation with Chloe Poon, Finance and RevOps leader at Teikametrics, a leading Retail Optimization Platform, we cover how to introduce new finance and SaaS buying processes to your team through change management, along with Chloe’s approach to long and short-term planning post-COVID 19.

In our first conversation with Chloe Poon, Senior Director of Finance and RevOps at Teikametrics, a leading Retail Optimization Platform, she talks about how her experience in operations armed her for a smooth transition to Finance, how she thinks about increasing the efficiency of a fast-growing team, and how her team goes beyond the transactional activities of a traditional Finance team.

In our final conversation with Michael Denari, we talk about how the sourcing expert and his team partner closely with Vendr to shave an extra 20% off on SaaS purchases, where he focuses his time with those extra hours saved, and last, but not least, his favorite up-and-coming SaaS tool.

In our third conversation with Michael Denari, Canva’s Strategic Sourcing leader, he uncovers the biggest issues with SaaS renewals, his go-to negotiation tactics, and where the procurement and SaaS industry is headed in the next 5 years.

In our second conversation with Canva’s Strategic Sourcing leader, Denari shares his views on change management for SaaS buying, how procurement teams can get better at bridging the gap between stakeholders, and how he’s building Canva’s procurement team from scratch.

This week, we introduce Michael Denari, Head of Global Spend & Business Systems at Canva. Hear how Denari went from entry-level accounting to building a procurement org at a leading SaaS company – and how the continued (and rapid) adoption of SaaS will impact the procurement industry forever.

In episode 2 of The Buy Side, we continue our conversation with Omar Ghani, addressing the biggest challenges that come with SaaS negotiations and how to avoid them. As a Vendr customer, Omar also describes how he's been able to free up time and build his strategic sourcing team while partnering with our team of expert buyers.

Welcome to The Buy Side, hosted by Vendr, where we interview finance and procurement experts from leading companies on negotiation, innovation, and more in a quick, digestible way. 

To kick off the podcast in our first episode, we have Omar Ghani, Reddit's first-ever procurement hire looking to build out a team that looks like a Fortune 500 environment of operational excellence.