When Kantar was bought out by Private Equity from previous owners WPP, Chief Procurement Officer Steve Day had the opportunity to start from scratch and create a modern sourcing organization from the ground-up. The result was a new type of operation that prioritizes speed and agility over cumbersome manual legacy processes and gives a view into how the procurement model of the future should look, combining best-of-breed technology with new talent and people, brought up in a digital-first world.

In conversation with Globality's Seth Catalli, Steve discusses: 

• How he has built a new type of sourcing team with a focus on different skills and backgrounds to those traditionally associated with procurement.
• Why procurement must do more than just cut costs and needs to deliver more strategic value across the enterprise.
• His desire to develop a more diverse supplier base and the progress Kantar has made. 
• How he set-up an offshore procurement Center of Excellence to automate manual work and elevate the function's business impact.