555: Establishing Procurement in a Moonshot Factory w/ Vytas Sliesoraitis

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Could there be any better qualification to compete in Ironman events than a 20-plus-year career in procurement? </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We find out in this week’s podcast, as host Philip Ideson is joined by procurement leader turned Ironman Vytas Sliesoraitis. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vytas has a diverse procurement background that includes time in procurement at Intel in his native Brazil, leading procurement at Google X (Google’s R&D company), and Global Head of Procurement at Epic Games, the makers of Fortnite. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this conversation, Vytas and Philip discuss many of the lessons learned from his long and varied career in procurement:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">The balance he learned to achieve while in procurement at Intel, balancing global strategy with local nuance</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Building trust based partnerships while establishing the procurement function at Google X</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">What made him want to train for Ironman competitions and the lessons he has learned that current procurement professionals can benefit from</span></li> </ul>