REAL CHEMISTRY
“ Visibility matters to all women, all people in general, but definitely women as they’ re coming up in their career”
Ontonia Hamlin, SVP of Procurement & Real Estate,
Real Chemistry
the company needs in each new market, balancing cost, client proximity and long-term business plans.
Discipline, Ontonia says, is just as important as ambition in all of this. Risk mitigation, compliance and commercial governance are not afterthoughts in her procurement strategy: rather, they are its foundation.“ It still has to be there, even in a modern procurement process,” she says.“ But it doesn’ t have to be an absolute no. We always look for ways to make things work within the confines of our policies.”
Looking to the future, Ontonia sees the next 12 to 18 months being a period of growth at Real Chemistry. Procurement, naturally, will remain a central part of that process, with Ontonia’ s team helping to harmonise vendors, deepen the firm’ s use of new technologies and oversee Real Chemistry’ s evergrowing portfolio of real estate.
The focus for Ontonia and her team will be to continue along their trajectory towards a newer, more modern procurement.
“ It’ s about modernising how we operate so we can grow faster and more responsibly,” she says.
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