Training - Contract Management
Let’s be frank – contract management isn’t the most exciting aspect of procurement. After all, who likes paperwork and minutia? Most people don’t. For those in the earlier stage of their career understanding legal jargon can be daunting and negotiating the contract with the supplier, harder still. More experienced professionals might not have even been taught this core skill properly and, with a desire to focus on more exciting activities, try to steer clear of contracts whenever possible.
Robust contracts are a key tool to manage your suppliers and minimise risk. So, like them or loathe them, you need to be good at them. Following some simple steps and with a bit of practice, I’ll show you that contract management isn’t nearly as arduous as you might think.
If you’re a Head of Procurement or Procurement Director you might have different needs. Perhaps you’re unhappy with the low level of spend under contract, the poor accessibility of contracts or that the full contract value isn’t derived. As a Procurement Director I’ve had this challenge myself and have some god ideas of how to help you.
Training - Contract Management
Let’s be frank – contract management isn’t the most exciting aspect of procurement. After all, who likes paperwork and minutia? Most people don’t. For those in the earlier stage of their career understanding legal jargon can be daunting and negotiating the contract with the supplier, harder still. More experienced professionals might not have even been taught this core skill properly and, with a desire to focus on more exciting activities, try to steer clear of contracts whenever possible.
Robust contracts are a key tool to manage your suppliers and minimise risk. So, like them or loathe them, you need to be good at them. Following some simple steps and with a bit of practice, I’ll show you that contract management isn’t nearly as arduous as you might think.
If you’re a Head of Procurement or Procurement Director you might have different needs. Perhaps you’re unhappy with the low level of spend under contract, the poor accessibility of contracts or that the full contract value isn’t derived. As a Procurement Director I’ve had this challenge myself and have some god ideas of how to help you.
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True Sustainability
True sustainability doesn't hide behind marketing spin. It
poses tough questions and then answers them.
Sustainability is at the core of what I do. I’m horrified at how we are damaging our world so quickly. So whilst I am only one of 7.8 billion people, I want to make a difference that is 10,000 times greater than my own individual voice and that is why it’s such a key part of the way in which I work with businesses.
Too often, the word ‘sustainability’ gets misused and abused with a lot of talk and marketing spin that results in failed promises and poor outcomes.
I believe we all have a responsibility to true sustainability - sustainability that delivers tangible benefits both socially and environmentally. I pose searching questions on sustainability to myself, my clients, and their suppliers in order to come up with solutions that not only answer these questions but provide long term impact on the world and environment in which we all live.
Procurement can make a huge difference. By making sustainability a pre-requisite for doing business, together we can challenge suppliers to act with environmental integrity, rewarding those who drive their own sustainability agenda, invest in pioneering technology to reduce detrimental environmental impact, minimise wastage and pool knowledge and resources with other companies to create joint action plans.