Beatrice Walker

Béatrice Walker is Director, Global Indirect Procurement at Asurion, a leader in technology protection. She is responsible for $300MM business services spend. Her primary goals for 2014 are to implement a global travel program with increased safety and compliance, establish contingent workforce policies as well as deliver at least $10MM savings. Béatrice has 16 years of increased global responsibilities in strategic sourcing and supply chain management. Known for her cross functional skills, she is highly adept at liaising with business groups, suppliers, customers and executive management accross the globe to ensure that Service Level Agreements are implemented and improved, and risk is properly managed. She has adopted e-sourcing in non-traditional applications achieving up to 70% savings, and has negotiated complex contractual agreements with ~$33M savings since 2009. She is a recognized leader within the Contingent Workforce space, having led Freescale Semiconductor, her previous company, to be a Case Study Contest Finalist in 2012, and been a panelist at the 2011 Staffing Industry Analyst Contingent Workforce Summit. Béatrice earned a Master in Management, Specialization in Supply Chain from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Toulouse, France, her native country. She is also certified as Project Management Professional (PMP) and was in Production and Inventory Management from the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS).