Lotta Carlsson

Vice President Procurement

Arjo

Lotta Carlsson joined Arjo in 2023 after nearly 20 years at Ericsson, where she held leadership roles across sourcing, category management, and operational efficiency. At Arjo, she leads a global procurement organisation of around 100 people, with a focus on building clarity around roles, competencies, and structures that enable the team to deliver on what matters most to the business.

From Diagnosis to Alignment: A Leadership Perspective on Reshaping Procurement

How do you set up a procurement organization so that everyone can deliver on what matters most to the business – and keep it that way as demands evolve? Lotta has spent the past two years reshaping procurement at Arjo, bringing clarity to how roles are defined, what competencies they require, and how structures support the way work actually needs to get done. It’s not about fixing what’s broken – it’s about creating alignment so people can be empowered to act, and future-proofing the organization for what’s coming. The harder part isn’t building the framework – it’s enabling teams to move forward when the ground keeps shifting.

Dilip Nair

Global Head of Operational Excellence and Innovation

A.P. Moller – Maersk

Evolving Operating Models: A Leadership Perspective on What’s Actually Changing

Dilip Nair has spent nearly 24 years at Maersk, leading everything from global equipment operations to his current role driving operational excellence and innovation in procurement. He’s seen operating models evolve many times – and his view is that what’s happening now is a fundamental shift, not just a technology upgrade. The human role is moving from transaction processing to insight translation. That demands different talent, different training, and leaders willing to ask harder questions about where the real competitive edge lies. AI is part of the picture, but the leadership challenge is broader: how do you prepare teams – and yourself – for work that looks fundamentally different?

John Everett

CPO / VP of Global Procurement

Novonesis

From Complexity to Clarity: AI Powering Procurement’s Internal Interactions

John Everett joined Novonesis just as Denmark’s largest-ever merger was taking shape – a significant and complex transformation bringing two companies together across policies, systems, tools, teams, and supply relationships. During the successful execution of the merger, and whilst ramping up sustainability focus, the team also leveraged and rolled out an AI-based tool to massively improve internal user interaction and satisfaction with procurement. It eliminates the transactional noise that keeps category managers from doing strategic work, and breaks down the barriers that have made procurement difficult to engage with.