David Hearn

Senior Director of Indirect Procurement
Juniper Networks

David has led world-wide sourcing, procurement, and supplier management organizations for over 20 years, both in direct materials and indirect categories.

Today David leads the Indirect Supplier Management organization at Juniper Networks, managing $1B in spend with a team in the US and India. This organization has implemented the industry leading SaaS eProcurement system Coupa across 9000 employees in 47 countries and returned over 8% in bottom line cost savings.

He led both direct and indirect organizations at Sun Microsystems, and also was the Director of Product Marketing for eProcurement software at Sun Microsystems. He was often externally focused with customers, press, and industry experts. The indirect organization at Sun managed $2B in spending and encompassed 60 people spread across 13 countries.

At Kaiser Permanente, David led both the IT and Facilities Sourcing organizations, managing $3B in spend.

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Day 2: Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Tuesday, May 9th, 2017

13:30 Presentation: Change Management in Procurement

By nature, procurement transformation is going to result in a great deal of change. As you continue down the journey, you need to make sure you have the right processes and infrastructure in place, the right people managing those processes. Then, you need to change the organization’s mindset, the culture, and even your approach to manifest the change you require. It’s not easy, and this session will arm you with strategies to make it work.