Bill Jolly

SVP Global Business Services (GBS) Bayer

Bill Jolly serves as the SVP Global Business Services (GBS) supporting all of Bayer’s business and corporate functions with services/solutions covering various operational activities including Record-to-Report, Source-to-Pay, Hire-to-Retire, Order-to-Cash, Supply Chain Management and Travel & Expense. Bayer’s GBS organization encompasses more than 5,200 employees over eight centers across the globe. Jolly spent more than 30 years at Bayer, where he held leadership roles across various businesses and functions. His breadth of experience also includes leadership roles in Crop Protection, Pharma, Seeds & Traits and Vegetables with an emphasis on Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Product Management & Marketing and Procurement in both emerging and developed markets. Jolly received a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri – Science & Technology and an EMBA from Emory University, Goizueta Business School. Jolly’s passions include food, well-being, and a healthy lifestyle.

Conference Day Three & Post-Conference Masterclasses: May 16th, 2024

12:20 PM SSOW BIG IDEA STAGE Transform vs Disrupt: How Can GBS Be the Game Changer?

As the process and productivity powerhouse, GBS has been focusing on process improvement and continuous improvement for efficiency gains for the past decades; Now, though, the industry is at cross roads again. By leveraging new market drivers such as Generative AI, GBS has a great opportunity to redefine their role from driving incremental improvement to providing radical step change that can disrupt and re-imagine the processes, customer relationship and fundamentals of the operating model.

·       With disruptive technologies such as Generative AI, are we able to achieve what we are achieving today with half the workforce?

·       How are we driving radical process redesign to fundamentally change the way of working in GBS and in order to drive meaningful results?

·       How can we be more integrated with the functions and customer organisations?

·       Disrupt through innovation: what are the areas to focus on? 

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