Melissa Young

Melissa Young is a Procurement leader at Rolls-Royce with over 13 years of experience in Aviation. Having completed a Masters Degree at the University of Bristol in Engineering, her career has covered multiple aspects of the aviation market from external sales and contracting, through to aftermarket and original engine manufacturing purchasing. All with a focus on business value generation and continuous improvement. Her current role as Head of Performance and Execution is across all Rolls-Royce Group Procurement, with a near term focus on Control Towers and Command Centres, thereby enabling the external facing teams to deliver the supply chain improvements.

Session:  Benefit of MVPs, and importance of culture within Data Control

This session will cover how we addressed our data challenge by driving a cultural change about data as well as providing new tools. Using the same data for the working teams and the executive teams, and how a minimal viable product quickly encourages use and data stewardship and provides transparency of performance.

Benefits:

• What we learnt about tools and adoption in a large company.
• How we use this to drive governance and performance of the function.