When you’re responsible for setting strategy, sourcing suppliers, and realizing savings but don’t own the scope or the budget, how can you contribute to bring value to your internal customers?

• Improving connections with stakeholders to locate untapped sources of value
• Changing processes to better align with your customers’ business model
• Working with stakeholders to managing savings to budget- should the savings be shared with the business unit?
• Encouraging contract compliance
• How procurement can become a trusted advisor

How does a company nurture future leadership and establish a CPO? An ideal professional development program should be designed not just to motivate your team, but also to retain them to eventually move into leadership roles. Junior level positions are only now held for an average of 2.5 years and automation and technology have altered the skillsets needed for junior talent, making the costs of training and retaining future leaders even more valuable. How can you motivate, challenge and inspire young talent and nourish them to deliver breakthrough performance?

• What does the supply chain profession look like for young talent coming out of the best schools?
• What does an ideal procurement or supply chain internship program look like?
• Should we even change our interviewing skills?
• Talent recruitment is now global: What unique talent recruitment challenges exist?
• Motivation strategies for navigating an often slow moving corporate culture
• KPI and performance measurement
• How to identify potential high performers and groom them

How does a company nurture future leadership and establish a CPO? An ideal professional development program should be designed not just to motivate your team, but also to retain them to eventually move into leadership roles. Junior level positions are only now held for an average of 2.5 years and automation and technology have altered the skillsets needed for junior talent, making the costs of training and retaining future leaders even more valuable. How can you motivate, challenge and inspire young talent and nourish them to deliver breakthrough performance?

• What does the supply chain profession look like for young talent coming out of the best schools?
• What does an ideal procurement or supply chain internship program look like?
• Should we even change our interviewing skills?
• Talent recruitment is now global: What unique talent recruitment challenges exist?
• Motivation strategies for navigating an often slow moving corporate culture
• KPI and performance measurement
• How to identify potential high performers and groom them