Sylvie Noel , Chief Procurement Officer
procurement before rollout to wider users . According to Noel , there were naturally some challenges during the 2013 rollout , which have since been overcome following the platform expansion . “ We started with the procurement request , the workflow associated and a first wave of model of contracts . What we ’ re doing now is very different : we start with the budgets imported to the platform ; any procurement request needs to have a budget line . Then , it either goes to the creation of a tender , or into catalogs .”
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Sylvie Noel , Chief Procurement Officer
EXECUTIVE PROFILE
Sylvie Noel is the Chief Procurement Officer at Covéa and has been with the insurance company for nine years . She started with the company in 2010 as a Principal Consultant , working across process and legal , before moving to becoming Chief Procurement Officer in 2012 . In this role she is in charge of heading up the program EMA ( Ensemble pour Mieux Acheter ) which is an initiative designed to professionalise procurement . www . fintechmagazine . com