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James R. has spent five and a half years building procurement at Thumbtack from the ground up. He'll tell you the function lives or dies on one thing: sequencing. Bring procurement in early and strategically, and you maximise value. Bring it in late, and you're a paper pusher. The goal was to get the right people involved at the right time, without making that so difficult that teams found ways around it. That's what Omnea made possible. The process is no longer Slack-based or manual. Each stage hands off cleanly to the next, all the way through to purchase. And over time, James and his team have been able to dial in what works: when to ask, what to ask for, and how to build an experience that actually serves the requester. In his words: Omnea is a genuine opportunity at continuous improvement. Watch the full interview below. 👇

I'm very exciting to be speaking next week at the Gartner CFO Symposium with Jonathan Sanders, CEO & co-founder of Light! Most legacy ERP systems were built for a world of warehouses and inventory and slow, predictable rollouts. That's not how modern business (and finance teams) operate. We’re all moving faster than ever, but too many finance teams are still stuck wrestling systems that were never designed for us. I'll be sitting down with Jonathan to talk about why legacy stacks fail the modern finance leader, what software that actually grows with the business looks like, and how CFOs can stop fighting their tools and start driving strategy. 📅 9th June ⏰ 10:00 📍 Xpo Stage 1 Plus you can find me or the Omnea team at booth 401 if you want to keep talking!

Kristina Adent says she feels like she's in on a secret. She's the Head of Global Sourcing and Procurement at PayPal, she's spent 25 years in this industry, and right now she's quietly confident about what she's about to bring to her business. We're proud that Omnea is part of it. Kristina ran a rigorous process, looked at every option including building internally, and chose Omnea. Watch the video to hear what convinced her and where she thinks this goes.

Suppliers know how much every customer pays. Procurement teams don't. That asymmetry means the average 1,000-employee company wastes over $750,000 on overpaying their SaaS suppliers every year. Today, we're launching Price Intelligence — powered by Tropic's market-leading price benchmark data and embedded directly into Omnea intelligent workflows. The moment a quote is uploaded, Omnea AI surfaces Tropic's benchmark data showing where the price sits against verified deals of a similar size. Anything priced above market is flagged and routed for renegotiation. "Tropic acts as a great filter and uses more reliable data. The cycle time of increasing the confidence level of a deal was much faster with Tropic than I've experienced before with other benchmarking tools.” Sam Kaserer (Software Category Manager, Adyen). Every quote. Every renewal. Not just the largest deals. Omnea AI is the context layer. Tropic is the data layer, trained on over 100,000 live negotiations. Together, every Omnea customer knows what they should be paying — and how to act on it. Learn more at: https://lnkd.in/d54muGhA

Most large enterprises still bet on P2P as the path to procurement transformation. The Adecco Group looked at their $5BN spend and made a different call. At their scale, deploying a full P2P suite means years of ERP integration before you see any value. Instead, they chose procurement orchestration as their operating system: a single entry point for every supplier interaction, with the flexibility to route requests across categories, countries, and shared service centres without waiting for a monolithic rollout. The result: 80% reduction in cycle times, and full visibility across indirect spend that was previously scattered across emails, Teams messages, and phone calls. Adecco made a call a lot of companies their size would question, and it's paying off. Hear Giulio Maccaroni, Global Head of Digital Procurement and Processes at The Adecco Group, talk about the transformation.

I spent yesterday afternoon at 10 Downing Street with some incredible people discussing AI, the future of work, and the importance of global ambition. NOW is the best time in generations to be building a business and we must make the most out of this opportunity and all help each other. The UK’s biggest risk is not moving fast enough on AI and/or not being bold enough in our ambitions. Thank you to Varun Chandra and his team for hosting us and for remarkable leaders such as Joshua Kushner - one of the most consequential investors in AI today — for your level of candour. At Omnea, while our primary focus is on building a great business, we want also to play a role in fostering the next generation of entrepreneurs. We will be announcing one of our key initiatives to do this in the coming weeks.

Our MCP server has been live for a few weeks, and the possibilities are endless 🤖 We’re seeing a lot of excitement around spend insights and reporting. The old way: hopping between tabs, manually compiling spreadsheets, losing an hour before you've even started the analysis. The new way: a conversation in Claude, ChatGPT, or Copilot that surfaces your top suppliers by spend, flags overlap and overpayment, and outputs a leadership-ready summary in a few minutes. Less time on the admin behind finding opportunities. More time acting on them. Test out more capabilities here 👉 https://mcp.omnea.co/

Yesterday we were at Ocado Group's offices in Hatfield to celebrate our go-live. When Graham Bettes joined Ocado, he set out to build a world-class procurement centre of excellence: AI-first, global, and built to scale. Ian Underwood has been the force driving that vision forward on the ground. Reshaping procurement at a business as complex and ambitious as Ocado takes real conviction. It's been a privilege to be building this alongside them. Thank you to Eve McLaughlin and Maximilien Djanguirov, whose work through a genuinely complex implementation made today possible. Welcome to Omnea, Ocado. 🎉

Omnea is the best medium-sized technology company to work for, according to The Sunday Times 🏆 There are plenty of incredible tech companies in that bracket, so we're very proud to be recognised. But what makes us even prouder is that the list is built from direct, anonymous feedback from Omneans. We’re very intentional about our culture, and we try to keep things simple: minimal bureaucracy, with an emphasis on ownership and accountability. If that sounds appealing, we're hiring in London and New York across all departments. You can find all our roles here: https://lnkd.in/evHNtufh

Stunning views, London sunshine, and great company. Not a bad Tuesday evening before World Procurement Congress last week. A pleasure hosting customers and new faces alike at Aqua Shard. Thank you to everyone who joined us! If you'd like to join our procurement leadership community in London, connect with Olivia Crowhurst.