Tuesday, 09 September, 2025
12 pm BST

Agents of Alignment: Uniting Finance, Procurement & People to Drive Resilient Growth

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Why attend

In today’s landscape of accelerating disruption, leading organizations are rethinking the way finance, procurement, and people teams work together. Fragmented systems, siloed data, and misaligned priorities can create friction across core processes, from planning to purchasing to talent allocation. The result is not just inefficiency; it is a lack of agility and rising operational risk.

This executive conversation brings together forward-thinking leaders from finance, procurement, and HR to explore what connected planning and execution truly looks like in a modern enterprise. Participants will share how they are navigating inflation, regulatory pressure, and talent disruption, while driving performance and resilience through greater collaboration and transparency.

Join us to hear how cross-functional alignment is not just a strategic ideal. It is a business necessity. Discover real-world strategies that help organizations respond faster, spend smarter, and plan more confidently.

The key take-aways

Bridging Siloes Across the Enterprise

Understand how disconnected tools and workflows across finance, procurement, and people functions erode visibility, weaken compliance, and delay decision-making and what leaders are doing to overcome these divisions.

Resilience Through Connected Planning

Explore how businesses are shifting from reactive crisis management to proactive planning by aligning spend, talent, and risk priorities. This ensures better preparedness in the face of volatility.

From Policy to Practice: Closing the Gap

Examine how inconsistent policies, outdated approval workflows, and lack of contextual data impact employees on the ground. Learn what process simplifications are yielding real impact.

Enabling a Culture of Informed Decisions

Learn how high-performing organizations are empowering teams at every level with clearer guardrails, better insights, and more accountability. This turns data into action across the enterprise.

The webinar panel

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Lauren Richards, Global Head of Procurement | Revolut

Experienced Global Procurement leader with a demonstrated history of working in the tech and retail industries. Skilled in purchasing across various categories, an expert negotiator trained by the GAP partnership with an MA in Leadership; MCIPS and six sigma qualifications. Lauren has spent her most recent experience setting up and growing procurement functions and implementing procurement systems. Operating as a Global CPO, with responsibilities spanning commercial ownership, risk and contracting as part of the full third party lifecycle and bringing extensive experience in digital transformation.

Matt Turner, Head of Procurement | Hargreaves Lansdown

Responsible for Procurement Systems, Processes and Reporting, including delivery of oversight & governance to meet the expectations of the Financial Conduct Authority.

Developed digitised approach for Supplier Management Programme, creating a more robust and workable solution. Implemented and now further developing a Procurement Orchestration Platform to connect systems and build stronger controls and more efficient processes.

Nick Boland, RVP Supply Chain - EMEA & APAC | Coupa Software

An international software VP with over 25 years international experience spanning Asia, North Africa, Eastern Europe, Western Europe and the US. Strong track record in subscription / SaaS Sales achievement in Automotive, Manufacturing, Retail and HiTech including Alliance development programs.

A real world understanding from prior roles in Implementation Consulting and value based Pre-Sales Consulting with major Fortune 500 Companies.

Track record in developing teams and delivering value in partnership with Sales teams in the Supply Chain, Compliance, CRM and Logistics domains.

Regional spokesperson at Conferences and Seminars throughout Europe and Asia, Nick has had several articles published on a variety of International Trade subjects.

This webinar is in partnership with

COUPA

Coupa is the leader in AI-native total spend management. Using its trusted, community-generated, $8 trillion dataset, Coupa brings autonomous AI agents, a network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers, and leading apps together on one unified platform to seamlessly automate the buying process and connect to customers in a whole new way. With Coupa, you’ll make margins multiply

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