The Procurement Conversation

Nick Jenkinson is Santander's Interim CPO reaching the end of a 2-year transformation programme.  In this episode we talk about: * His approach to making sure new tech lands * His main objectives in his transformation programme * Why digital transformation is so difficult * How we get the right balance between risk mitigation and agility * What he wants his CEO to know about procurement

This week I talk to Simon Geale, CPO of Proxima and we talk about: * Early jobs missing from his CV * What it's like being a CPO responsible for marketing * The biggest issues CPOs face right now * What Proxima is working on and what skills they are looking for * What Procurement needs to change to meet its potential * How we should all be a bit more like Mick Jagger. If you enjoy the podcast...

This week I talk to Andrew Newnham, CPO of M&S and we cover: * How Procurement can drive strategy * What skills he looks for in his team * Balancing risk mitigation with getting stuff done * What he thinks the future holds for Procurement * The book that has most influenced his career

I talk to Tom Mills on his passion for Procurement, building a following on Social Media, his favourite Music and what the future holds for Procurement. Tom can be found: https://procurementprotagonist.substack.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-mills-procurement/

This week I'm joined by Peter Smith, author of Bad Buying, co-author of Procurement with Purpose, Procurement Expert and former CPO.  His books are excellent and available through all good bookstores. I asked Peter: Why Procurement? Is the interpersonal side of Procurement more or less important now? What do you do in your spare time? About reusing festival camping equipment - how this links...

A fireside chat with David Loseby, to talk about the often forgotten side of Digital Transformation - people.

Alex Gosney from Nutral joins us to discuss how we can ensure that our supply chains use ethical labour.

Procurement has had a frantic couple of years, dealing with many challenges that we may have previously had to face once in a career, seemingly every few months.  With many teams feeling the strain, something must give. So what should we stop doing? The Procurement Conversation panel is joined by Procurement Protagonist Tom Mills to get his views as to what we should stop doing.

Want to speed up your Procurement Processes? Over the last couple of years business has been speeding up - but procurement is getting more and more bogged down with addition process work.  Getting slower isn't an option, so how can we speed up procurement? That's the question we're tackling this week and one way to approach this is through lean-agile procurement. The Procurement Con...

In this episode we ask 'Why is Digitising Procurement so Hard?' The secret is that it isn't really - but over many years we have invested much time and money in programmes which have been poorly adopted and haven't landed. What can we do differently to turn this around and realise the benefits that digitisation can bring? Kavita, Martin and I are joined by Steve Day, CPO of Kan...

Rising inflation is all over the news - how can we in procurement help our organisations to mitigate the impact of this on the bottom line?  Our panel is joined by Tracey Giblin Kelly who is a chartered accountant and finance director of Kavita's business, Novo-K.  Tracey gives the finance view on inflation - we also touch on the relationship between finance and procurement, and how we can bu...

This week, we're tackling the Procurement Talent Shortage, what it is and how we can fix it.