Julia Thyagarajan

Global Category Lead & Head of Procurement Excellence Olam Agri

Julia Thyagarajan is a transformative procurement leader whose 18 years Procurement career embodies the best of the profession: bold strategy, human-centred leadership, and measurable impact at scale. As the Head of Olam Agri's Non-Commodity Procurement (NCP) Centre of Excellence and Global Category Lead – Business Services, Julia aims to show what world-class procurement looks like for a global agri-business operating across 5 continents and 30 countries. In previous roles, Julia has led the Global Procurement Centre of Excellence at Dole Sunshine Group, build up a greenfield Procurement organization for a German Specialty Chemical Company in Singapore and let both Direct and Indirect Procurement teams. Julia displays relentless drive for excellence, combined with a deep passion for developing people and embracing technology to achieve true transformation and digitalization for Procurement teams!