Barbara Guignard

Barbara leads large-scale, international procurement transformation projects across a number of sectors, with a focus on the food, retail, and manufacturing industries. Barbara’s principal strengths lie in Procurement Transformation and Strategic Sourcing, particularly in the context of international organisations and mergers and acquisitions.

Generally, Barbara works with clients in medium-sized companies, often with an international sales and supply chain footprint, in sectors ranging from Manufacturing to Distribution and Services. Barbara has category expertise in professional services, marketing, finished goods, logistics, engineering services, third-party labour and outsourced services.

Barbara founded and continues to lead the Efficio Women’s Network, which provides an inclusive forum to exchange topics impacting women’s performance and well-being in the workplace, network with women across the business, as well as to raise general awareness on gender challenges. She is also a certified coach in personal development and is heavily involved in internal and external training.