- September 23, 1pm ET
Smart Procurement: How Collibra Uses Live Market Intelligence to Guide Every Deal
Collibra has built procurement as a living system: with an intelligence layer that’s embedded across the business, continuously checking if contracts match their standards and ensuring they’re getting the best deals by using real market intelligence. When they diverge, the system flags it and routes it to action.
Join Douglas Williams, Strategic Negotiations Manager at Collibra and Tropic to learn how to align contract terms with the market, identify gaps, and build a practical framework for better negotiations across your organization.
You’ll see:
- How data becomes a control signal: Market benchmarks, peer pricing, and negotiation trends strengthen your BATNA and clarify your leverage by showing the gap between what you pay, what the market supports, and what your standards require.
- Turn standards into measurable gates, not guidelines: What defining non-negotiables look like and how to accurately assign ownership, so the system never fails.
- Why every decision must be traceable: Use a brief, scoreboard, ledger, and gap analysis to track priorities, offers, sources, and open issues.
- Focus leverage where it matters: See how Tropic benchmarks helps prioritize contracts to focus on, by combining market position, internal leverage, and a pre-set strategy to build a defensible counteroffer.
Speakers
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Justin Etkin
Co-Founder and CEO
Tropic
Michael Shields
Vice President of Procurement
Tropic
Douglas Williams
Strategic Vendor Negotiations
Collibra
speaker bios
Justin Etkin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Tropic, where he leads operations, scaling strategy, and cross-functional execution. Prior to Tropic, he was VP of Operations at high-growth startup BounceX and started his career as a consultant at Bain & Company. After firsthand experience managing complex vendor relationships, Justin co-founded Tropic to help businesses streamline procurement, reduce waste, and save money. He brings a systems-first mindset to every challenge — balancing analytical rigor with operational savvy.
Michael Shields is the Vice President of Procurement at Tropic, responsible for managing the company’s spend as well as coaching customers with procurement best practices, and introducing forward-thinking ideas to enable the Tropic platform. He has more than a decade of procurement experience, including his role as Global Head of Procurement at Qualtrics, overseeing a procurement team that maintained company profitability en route to a $8B acquisition.
Douglas Williams leads strategic vendor negotiations at Collibra, where he’s spent the past 6 months transforming the procurement department to capitalize on generative AI. He specializes in bringing structure and intelligence to vendor relationships, blending hands-on negotiation with AI-driven tools he uses to source decisions faster and smarter.
