"We look for suppliers where they represent the diversity of our customer base and our team members as well”: Jim Townsend - Chief Procurement Officer at Walgreens Boots Alliance
- Author
- Leila McKenzie-Delis/Jim Townsend
- Published
- Tue 20 Apr 2021
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Jim Townsend
Leila is joined by Jim Townsend - Chief Procurement Officer at Walgreens Boots Alliance.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN ABOUT
· How Jim’s career in procurement has unfolded so far after leaving school at the age of 16 and then subsequently studying at university on a part-time basis as a mature student, which led to him working for companies like General Electric and Walgreen Boots Alliance at an extremely senior level
· The inter-generational/cultural evolutions in the workplace that Jim has seen and experienced in his career
· Supply chain diversity: what exactly this means and why Jim is instilling it at WBA
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