Creative Agency Account Manager Podcast How to build trust with Procurement, with Jessica Bowler
Jan 6, 2026
47:48
Welcome to episode 154. This chat will be particularly interesting for you if you’re an agency owner or account manager who has to work with marketing procurement (especially in pharma / biotech industry).
My guest is Marketing Procurement Consultant, Jessica Bowler. Jess has deep expertise in end-to-end pharmaceutical procurement processes, including supplier qualification, contract negotiation, risk management and vendor management. She has worked with large pharma for almost 24 years and spent the majority of that time in commercial/marketing procurement. Jess currently works on consulting roles within pharma and biotech where she can assist organizations with different procurement operations.
Here's what we covered in our chat:
- What to do if your experience of procurement has been more transactional than you’d like.
- a simple 10 minute conversation you can initiate to strengthen the relationship
- a check list of what to include in a review meeting with Procurement
- how procurement is thinking about AI and pricing transparency right now
Jess shares a lot of valuable insight, tips and steps to set you up for success dealing with procurement, I hope it gives you a few practical ways to work with procurement as they are, whether they’re relationship-led or more transactional.
Do follow Jess on LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/jessica-bowler-76bbb34&sa
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My guest is Marketing Procurement Consultant, Jessica Bowler. Jess has deep expertise in end-to-end pharmaceutical procurement processes, including supplier qualification, contract negotiation, risk management and vendor management. She has worked with large pharma for almost 24 years and spent the majority of that time in commercial/marketing procurement. Jess currently works on consulting roles within pharma and biotech where she can assist organizations with different procurement operations.
Here's what we covered in our chat:
- What to do if your experience of procurement has been more transactional than you’d like.
- a simple 10 minute conversation you can initiate to strengthen the relationship
- a check list of what to include in a review meeting with Procurement
- how procurement is thinking about AI and pricing transparency right now
Jess shares a lot of valuable insight, tips and steps to set you up for success dealing with procurement, I hope it gives you a few practical ways to work with procurement as they are, whether they’re relationship-led or more transactional.
Do follow Jess on LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/jessica-bowler-76bbb34&sa
If you’d like weekly tips to build your account management skills, news on agency trends, notifications of upcoming podcast episodes, and any mini trainings I’m running, sign up to my newsletter at Account Management Skills: https://www.accountmanagementskills.com