Jake Wojcik

Senior Vice President
Insight Sourcing Group & SpendHQ

Jake Wojcik is a Senior Vice President at Insight Sourcing Group as well as their spend visibility company SpendHQ. Jake has over 15 years of experience in management consulting with a focus on procurement, sourcing, and supply chain management. In 2015 & 2013, Jake was named a ‘Pro to Know’ by Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine. Jake has been part of Insight Sourcing Group’s leadership team since 2008. Prior to Insight Sourcing Group, he was a Director with RGP (founded by Deloitte & Touché), in which he was responsible for the launch and management of Atlanta’s Supply Chain practice. Jake also worked with KPMG Consulting leading cross-functional teams in the areas of strategic sourcing, procurement transformation and technology implementation for global companies. Prior to KPMG Consulting, he worked within the eProcurement and sourcing practices at Arthur Andersen Business Consulting, where he provided Fortune 500 clients with value-added solutions through procurement project implementations, process reengineering, and strategy.

BS, Management Information Systems, Florida State University’s College of Business

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Day 1: Monday, September 28, 2015

Sunday, April 9th, 2017

16:40 Sourcing Accomplished…NOW WHAT? Best Practices To Make Your Savings Stick

Why is it so hard to get sourcing savings to the bottom line?
What’s causing the savings leakage?
The pain doesn’t end with savings leakage…
The playbook: How to plug the savings leaks

17:00 Roundtable Discussions

TABLE 1: An Innovative Approach To Putting Your Indirect Spend Under Control

Hosted by: Sundar Kamakshisundaram, Senior Director, Solutions Marketing, Ariba

TABLE 2: Sourcing Accomplished…NOW WHAT? Best Practices To Make Your Savings Stick

Hosted by: Jake Wojcik, Senior Vice President, Insight Sourcing Group & SpendHQ

TABLE 3: Creating a Procurement Center of Excellence

Hosted by: Stephen Osmun, Strategic Sourcing Manager, Process Center of Excellence, Anthem

TABLE 4: Integrating Social Tools Into The Procurement Process

Hosted by: Melvin Landry, Director, Strategic Sourcing, Caesars Entertainment Corporation

TABLE 5: Dignity Health’s Contingent Workforce & Services Procurement Transformation

Hosted by: Matthew Elliott, Director of Resource Capacity Management for IT, Dignity Health

TABLE 6: Benchmarking for Equitable Contracting

Hosted by: Sarthak Brahma, Vice President, Price Assurance, Everest Group

TABLE 7: Transforming Your P-Card Program

Hosted by: Joel Kornberg, Vice President, Global Procurement, Informatica

TABLE 8: Low-Cost vs. Best-Cost Country Sourcing

Hosted by: Mariela Oetinger, Strategic Sourcing Group Director: Indirect Sourcing, Safeway

TABLE 9: The Impact of the ACA on Contingent and Contract Employees

Hosted by: Katie Streu, Contingent Workforce Program Manager, Twitter

TABLE 10: P2P Optimization

Hosted by: Cindy Yan, Head of Source to Pay, Twitter

TABLE 11: How To Save on Global Purchases Using an IT Aggregator

Hosted by: Peter Waters, Director of Enterprise Sales, GlobalServe

Day 2: Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Tuesday, May 9th, 2017

11:00 Session 2: The Intersection of Big Data and Risk Management

In a world where spend data and visibility is a basic requirement for even average procurement performance, why is data clarity so difficult to achieve for most organizations? After spending millions of dollars on technology from ERP systems to P2P platforms, why do many procurement organizations continue to struggle with both the analysis & optimization of spend data, as well as the incorporation of an IT Risk Management Approach?

Procurement can be more involved in how standards are set for the data that is specific to their needs. Procurement can also get involved earlier to help ensure that contractual terms, service levels, and requirements for suppliers meet the security needs of the company while also ensuring that costs are considered. But what exactly should procurement be looking for?

Discuss with your peers:
• What does a typical procurement-related spend analytics process look like?
• What standards are typical for procurement-specific data intelligence?
• What risks can stem from gathering too much or not enough data?
• What are some of the strategic-related risks in addition to security risks?
• What are the risks associated with spend analytics and spend data for procurement as compared to other data?
• How can you engage and partner with IT to understand how procurement data needs might differ from other IT-related data concerns?
• How can procurement help to mitigate supplier-related data breaches?