Leanne Yue

Leanne Yue

Head of Procurement Performance APAC Danone
Leanne Yue

Leanne is an experienced procurement leader with nearly two decades of experience across FMCG, retail, real estate, and semiconductor industries. Currently based in Singapore, she leads procurement performance, sustainability, and strategic initiatives across APAC at Danone, partnering with teams across markets to strengthen business value, governance, and decision-making. Throughout her career, Leanne has held local, regional, and global procurement roles across category management, procurement excellence, and operating model design, with a particular interest in helping procurement move beyond transactional delivery by using data, technology, and cross-functional collaboration to solve business challenges and create sustainable value. Having worked across Asia, Africa, Middle East and global procurement organizations, Leanne brings a practical perspective shaped by both category and transformation roles. She believes that the most successful procurement teams are those that balance commercial outcomes with resilience, simplicity, and strong business partnerships. Today, her focus is on enabling procurement organizations to become more agile, data-driven, and future-ready.

MAIN CONFERENCE DAY 2 – 20 October 2026, Tuesday

9:40 AM Keynote Panel: How do you manage the tension between centralised governance and the need for local market autonomy to build a regional operating model that is both consistent and genuinely fit for purpose across Asia?

•How do you decide which policies, standards and processes must be consistent across all markets — and which should be left to local teams to define and own? 

• How do you build trust between regional leadership procurement and local market teams so that centralised governance is seen as an enabler rather than a barrier to getting things done? 
• How do you design a regional operating model that is agile enough to adapt to the regulatory, cultural and supplier landscape of markets as different as Japan, India, Indonesia and Australia? 
• How do you measure the performance of a regionalised procurement model — and how do you know when the balance between central control and local flexibility is actually working?

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Leanne.

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