Murat is Global Procurement Category Manager IT at AkzoNobel based in Amsterdam, responsible for major IT vendors, global category strategy, and alignment with IT leadership and the CIO. Previously, he held International IT procurement roles at Essent (E.ON Group) and innogy S.E., managing software, infrastructure, and IT services sourcing across multiple countries, leading RFPs and e-auctions, and driving stakeholder alignment. Earlier, he gained project procurement experience at Vanderlande Industries and lean process standardization exposure at Mars. He holds a Master of Science in Supply Chain Management from Rotterdam School of Management (Erasmus University). IT Procurement skills are key and inevitable nowadays as many departments, services and processes have an IT, Digital and AI component. That makes this job so interesting.