Ringing the changes_2
13 September 2012
Yellow Pages’ first head of procurement does not shy away from a challenge. Fiona Skinner tells David Arminas how she wants to totally revamp the company’s purchasing strategy
Fiona Skinner admits that her knees were knocking as she stood on the edge of the deep lava cave, contemplating her impending abseil into the dark, dank ancient tunnel. “It was my most frightening moment ever,” she says. “You could almost smell the fear. But, once I was on the edge, there was no going back. It was a team thing.”
Abseiling into the 190,000-year-...