Vilochanee Naidoo

Vilochanee has more than two decades of procurement leadership across multinationals and JSE-listed companies. She has transformed and centralised procurement and supply chain functions, put in leading procurement and finance ERP platforms, and embedded best-practice methodology.

She served as a CIPS Direct Associate for nine years and now heads the professional body at CIPS Southern Africa, making the case for procurement and supply chain as a driver of sustainable transformation. She speaks regularly at industry forums. A qualified chartered company secretary with the Institute of Governance, a long-standing MCIPS member, and soon to be awarded FCIPS.