How Procurement and Finance Understand Each Other

Miguel Santos is a strategic procurement leader with more than 15 years of experience delivering value across multinational and complex business environments. He has led procurement functions and group-wide categories, combining strategic sourcing expertise with organisational leadership and digital transformation.

His experience spans the full lifecycle of procurement transformation—from maturity assessments and strategy development through operating-model and organisational design, process optimisation, technology selection and implementation, change management, and operational adoption. This end-to-end perspective enables him to translate strategic ambition into practical, sustainable results.

Recognised as a transformational leader and digital procurement architect, Miguel supports organisations in building more effective procurement capabilities, strengthening category management, and using technology and data to improve decision-making, efficiency, governance, and business value.

Co-founder and Executive Director of IPSM Procurement & Supply Chain Professional, Academic Director of the CIPS (Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply Chain) programme in Ukraine.

A professional procurement specialist with over 19 years’ experience.

She has implemented category management and delivered training for companies including DTEK, Zhytomyr Butter Plant (TM “Rud”), Softserve, Ciklum, Ukroboronprom, Interpipe, Metinvest Digital, UMG Industrial and Investment Holding, Kredobank, Ukrnafta, Ukrgazvydobuvannya, Ukrspyrt, Bel Shostka, Nova Poshta, Adbakers, Agricultural Company “Veres”, and an Industrial Mining Company (Kazakhstan).

She has managed transformation projects in marketing procurement, business tourism, manufacturing sectors, the food industry and IT.