Eunice Oniovosa Alex-Eyitene

Background

Eunice has a BSc degree in Accounting, an MBA, and MSc in Procurement and Supply Chain Management.  She holds the MCIPS status from the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply.  A supply chain professional with about 10 years of experience with Shell Nigeria.  She's adept in the formulation and execution of sourcing strategies across several supply chain functions: category management, contracting, procurement, and management Information Systems.  She recently worked with Abbott Laboratories UK as a Contracts Specialist managing the blood transfusion category.

Eunice lectures operations strategy as a Visiting Lecturer with the University of Buckingham.

Current activities

Eunice's research is centred on procurement risks, procurement risk management strategies, and procurement resilience.  She's investigating how procurement risk management strategies can be used to develop resilience in procurement.  The Covid-19 pandemic, Brexit, and US-China trade war examples of significant risk events that have disrupted procurement activities across businesses.  It is now essential for procurement leaders to re-evaluate their procurement risks, formulate ways to implement risk management strategies, and build resilience in procurement.  Eunice is currently exploring the risks and resilient risk management strategies in the three main stages of the procurement process: pre-contract, selection/contracting, and post contract.