Alan Dempsey

Alan is a proactive, ethical, adaptable and results orientated Sourcing Manager with 20 years’ experience in direct & indirect procurement, ranging from pharmaceutical, print, IT, facilities and marketing services. He is skilled at leading and implementing strategic best in class category management techniques resulting in stakeholder integration and ‘buy in’ which deliver to the company’s bottom line. In his current role as International Procurement Manager at Adobe, he has become more international focused rather than North American. In addition, rather than focusing on marketing (which is still a large category his new team covers) the team now contains a contract manager, buyers, CM's and sourcing people (7 in total) who are also generalists focused on Marketing, IT, Facilities, Finance Consulting, and HR services. Alan will be presenting a case study on ‘Collaborating With Marketing To Develop A Best In Class Selection Process: How To Build An In-House Digital Solution That Helps More Effectively Source Suppliers’ on the 14th of June.