LOUISE WAITE

Louise Waite is the Supply Chain Management & Assurance Director at Lloyds Banking Group. She leads a team of 50, delivering a group-wide approach to supplier risk assessment, supplier assurance and supplier management. Louise and her team maintain an effective Supply Chain Management framework, run a Centre of Excellence for Supplier Management and conduct hundreds of assurance reviews every year. Having spent several years in the IT and Pharmaceutical industries, Louise is enjoying her return to Financial Services where she started her Procurement career. An eclectic mix of Executive, process geek and pragmatist, she is known for being curious and finds problem solving fun. This flows through into her personal life where she enjoys the problem solving activities integral to parenting a teenager!