CPO Rising 2K21 – How the Greater Toronto Airport Authority Reimagined Vendor Management with CLM « CPO RISING – THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT

Ardent Partners Monthly Webinar Series’ continues a tradition started during the pandemic last year of bringing multiple CPOs together for an extended 90-minute livestream webinar.

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Join us on May 26th at 11 AM ET for a power-packed webinar featuring 8 procurement experts including a CPO Panel that focuses on the “still rising” role and impact of procurement and the CPO, a deep dive case study into strategic sourcing excellence, and an exciting roundtable on the importance of contract compliance (and yes, we meant exciting!!). Each segment will also feature a few highlights from Ardent’s new State of Procurement 2021 research. This segment includes a discussion regarding a vendor management transformation project and how utilizing AI-powered contract lifecycle management software helped support it.

How GTAA Reimagined Vendor Management with Sirion’s AI-powered CLM

The Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) manages and operates Toronto Pearson International airport – Canada’s largest and North America’s second largest international airport. With IT suppliers playing a central role in running airport operations, robust vendor management is critical for delivering an efficient and seamless traveler experience. Join us for this exciting discussion to learn about GTAA’s IT Vendor Management transformation journey powered by Sirion’s AI-led CLM platform. Angella Dikmic, Manager, IT Vendor Management at GTAA will be joined by Mark Voytek, Chief Customer Officer, SirionLabs for this discussion.

Angella was brought on seven years ago to help the GTAA stand up its Vendor Management discipline. The business was in the process of going through their RFP for their IT-outsourcing project. A highly complex project that would cover the majority of IT-services across the airport. Angella helped build out the Vendor Management organization and then from there set out to find a solution that would support that effort. They knew that corporate procurement was going to at some point implement a supplier/vendor management type of discipline as well. There are now two functions within the GTAA – the supplier management function that supports the entire organization outside of IT, and the IT organization with Angella currently manages. During this discussion, Angella will go over GTAA’s transformation journey, the challenges they were facing prior the transformation, and the supplier ecosystem and why vendor management has been critical to their business.

About the Speakers:

Angella Dikmic, is the Manager, IT Vendor Management, at the Greater Toronto Airports Authority. Angella first joined the GTAA seven years ago to implement Vendor Management disciplines for their IT department, something new not only for IT, but for Toronto Pearson International Airport as well. Angella has over 19 years of experience in leading teams in the areas of Procurement, Contract Management and Vendor Management at leading Canadian companies such as the Toronto Star and Canadian Tire Corporation.

Mark Voytek has over 25 years of experience as a transformational business executive helping Global 1000 organizations to drive business and technology transformations. Prior to his current role as Chief Customer Officer at SirionLabs, Mark held leadership roles at EY and KPMG advising clients across all aspects of enterprise transformation related to IT, Supply Chain, Finance & Accounting, ERP, Procurement and other functions. Currently at SirionLabs, Mark is building a world-class customer success organization by leveraging his vast industry experiences.