Opella’ s Lyvio Frimat explains how radical digital and cultural transformation is equipping his procurement team to adapt to a rapidly shifting world
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Opella’ s Lyvio Frimat explains how radical digital and cultural transformation is equipping his procurement team to adapt to a rapidly shifting world
For Lyvio Frimat, procurement is more than simply another business function. It is for him a vantage point from which to understand how an organisation works – and, increasingly, how it can adapt to global technological acceleration, constant business shifts and BANI( Brittle, Anxious, Nonlinear and Incomprehensible) momentum, a framework created by futurist Jamais Cascio to describe today’ s increasingly fragile and unpredictable world.
“ It’ s a 360-degree function where you need to discuss with and know every single person in the office,” he says.“ You need to know everything that is happening everywhere, have it synchronised and make it work together.” It is a perspective shaped by more than two decades in business, spanning marketing, entrepreneurship and procurement across organisations including Newell-Rubbermaid, L’ Oréal, Communisis, now Paragon Global Brands and Coty Inc.
Today, as Global Head of Procurement Centre of Excellence, Strategy & Transformation at Opella, Lyvio is applying his diverse experience to a company that has undergone a rapid transformation of its own.
4 opella. com