Sandeep Bhide
VP Product Management, ProcessUnity
Sandeep has spent over 15 years in enterprise B2B SaaS software companies with deep and broad experience in product management and software engineering. Before ProcessUnity, Sandeep led GEP’s sourcing, supplier and third-party risk management products for 2 years. Prior to that he led the third-party risk and performance management product at Coupa (Hiperos) for nine years.
Sandeep is responsible for keeping the pulse on current and emerging needs in the third-party management market and delivering high-value product capabilities and solutions that help ProcessUnity’s customers and maintain its leadership position.
11:30 am - 12:20 pm
CRITICAL THIRD PARTIES: POWER IMBALANCES WITH CRITICAL THIRD PARTIES– PANEL DISCUSSION
Operating TPRM programs when vendors dictate terms.
- Managing monopolize across the supply chain in financial institutions
- Navigating audit refusals, data access limitations, and “take-it-or-leave-it” contracts
- Managing risk exposure when exit is unrealistic
- Escalation strategies when critical vendors underperform or resist oversight
- Using collective pressure, contractual leverage, and governance forums effectively