Christoph Quick-Timmerhaus

Head of International Procurement
RWE

Christoph is directly responsible procurement for RWE in the UK, the Netherlands, Hungary, and Turkey. Leading his team of 45, recently he pioneered the transformation of the UK Procurement team (c70) from a transaction-focused group towards a more strategic, value-creating function - allowing the team to achieve the highest savings within the entire Group. With over 20 years of service in various utility markets including nuclear, renewables and water, Christoph is well placed to facilitate the utilities round-table and speak in an all-star panel around stakeholder management which has been a key focus area in his leadership approach. RWE offers energy and disposal from one source. Their core business is electricity, gas, water, heating, disposal, plants nets, services, solid fuels and oil.

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Christoph.

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Conference Day One – Tuesday 4 April 2017

Tuesday, April 4th, 2017

13:50 Case study interactive – Transform to perform: How to win the hearts and minds of your business and build better relationships with your stakeholders to position procurement as a value-add function

How can you educate your business on the importance of quality of supplier/product over cost to increase value-add?

How can you spend money where it is innovative and save where it is not?

How can you partner with your suppliers to record and show real saving to your stakeholders?

How can you ensure your procurement team becomes more responsible for the P&L of their business categories?

14:30 All star panel – How can you ensure transparency and visibility with your internal business partners to prove added value to your business?

How can you be a driver of your business’ goal or mantra?
What does added-value mean to your business?
How do you design a business strategy that procurement can implement and support?
How to understand your consumer to understand your business
How can you select the opportunities that will last, grow and gain momentum?

16:10 Wine and Beer round tables: Industry specific. What are the main procurement challenges within your industry and how can you overcome them?

This interactive session provides the opportunity to discuss your most pressing challenge with your peers in a small, industry specific group of 10. Don’t miss this fantastic chance to solve your issues and make important new contacts with procurement professionals from your industry!

Round table 1: Financial Services & Insurance – Gareth Mawdesley, Head of Procurement, NFU Mutual & Julian Herbert, Vice President, Everest Group

Round table 2: Utilities/Energy – Christoph Quick-Timmerhaus, Head of International Procurement, RWE

Round table 3: Travel – Claudia Unger, Founder, Claudia Unger Limited (ex Director of Research and Intelligence BCD Travel)

Round table 4: Consultants – Marc Rajal, Head of Procurement Transformation, Deloitte

Round table 5: Technology – Marco Stenvert, CPO, Wolters Kluwer

Round table 6: Telecoms – Pieter Swarts, CPO, KPN

Round table 7: Logistics/Distribution

Round table 8: Publishing/Media

Round table 9: Retail – Tim Brennan, Head of Procurement, Marks & Spencer & Tim Snow, Head of Procurement, Debenhams