Scott Kaya

Scott Kaya is Director of Information Technology purchasing and supplier management at AbbVie and has responsibility for leading a team that negotiates purchase agreements and manages the supply base for the Global Information Technology organization. Scott joined AbbVie in September 2012 from Baxter Healthcare, where he served as Director of Information Technology purchasing and supplier management. While at Baxter, Scott was part of the CIO’s leadership team, working closely with her and her staff to source, negotiate, implement and operate global application support, datacenter and helpdesk outsourcing agreements. He also sourced the ERP integrator for the global consolidation and upgrade of Baxter’s system. Prior to this, Scott spent 3 years at Hewitt in a similar IT purchasing role and 11 years at Accenture where he had responsibility for technology purchasing, and various IT roles supporting internal groups such as Accenture’s outsourcing business, knowledge management and learning organizations. Scott started his career at Digital Equipment Corporation as a material requirements planning analyst. Scott earned his master’s in business administration from Boston University and his bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain management from Michigan State University.