5 Nick Jenkinson, Chief Procurement Officer, Santander UK
Few procurement professionals have a career as diverse as Nick Jenkinson – having worked across seven companies and seven industries for more than 20 years.
As CPO at Santander UK since the start of 2021, Nick is driving a significant transformation across the organisation.
Prior to Santander, Nick spent five years at Japanese-based pharma Astellas leading award-winning transformations across procurement and corporate real estate, while also leading the strategy and implementation of a newly created business services model.
He has also held senior procurement roles across automotive, building materials, FMCG and media, including at Ford Motor Company, CEMEX, dmg media, and Aryzta, with more than a decade focused on leading transformational activities.
In June, he told Supply Chain Digital magazine that people can get confused when defining ‘digital procurement’ and get too lost in AI, RPA, NLP and the future of digitisation “without sometimes understanding the drivers within their own organisation and the problems they are trying to solve.”
He has an MBA from Warwick Business School and a degree in economics from De Montford University.
