ProcureCon 2025

23 - 25 September 2025

Austria Center Vienna

Robert Snijder

Vice President Global Procurement Benteler
Robert Snijder has an extensive international experience in steel, automotive and industrial companies including being an entrepreneur. Since April 2018 he has been working as Vice-President Procurement for BENTELER Steel/Tube. Before taking this role at BENTELER he occupied several other Supply Chain and General Management roles, as Board Member and Group Sourcing Director at Bosal, Managing Director at UTC Carrier Holland Heating and Director of Procurement and Operations Manager for Arvin(Meritor). In 2008 he co-founded and led DonQI Quandary Innovations. Robert holds a master’s degree from Erasmus University Rotterdam in Business Administration with a specialization in Industrial Economy and Organization and a Bachelor of Business Administration of Nijenrode, The Netherlands School of Business. Though Dutch citizen he lived for 20 years in USA, France, Belgium and Germany.

Day 1 | 23rd September 2025

11:45 AM Keynote Panel: Choosing The Right Digitisation Path: How Can You Digitise Procurement To Enhance Governance & Efficiency?

  • What processes should you digitise and what is the right path to digitise?  
  • How do you build a governance framework to drive digital adoption and ensure seamless integration? 
  • How do you ensure digitisation drives control, visibility and financial results? 

3:15 PM Panel: Identify And Reduce Tail-Spend: How Can You Harness Data To Tackle Tail Spend?

  • How can we identify and categorize tail spend effectively across a large and diverse supplier base? 
  • What are the best technologies or tools available to gain better visibility and control over tail spend? 
  • What cost-saving strategies can be implemented to reduce tail spend without compromising quality or supplier relationships? 

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Robert.

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