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Get Excited: A Fresh Intro to Procurement

Session Overview:
Perfect for those new to procurement or needing a reboot, this session demystifies the procurement process with confidence, clarity, and context. We'll break down jargon, explore procurement’s strategic role, and build strong foundational knowledge.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand procurement's purpose, lifecycle, and evolving value

• Build confidence in core procurement principles

• Recognise how procurement links to strategy, finance, and risk

Courses available:

• Procurement basics (for proc professionals)

• Procurement 101 (business edition)

• Fresh Fundamentals (an elevated refresher course)

Learning Audience:
Students, interns, early career professionals, operational buyers, contract coordinators, support roles moving into procurement

Elevate Your Game: Contract & Category Management

Session Overview:
Step beyond compliance into commercial mastery. We’ll focus on creating value through strategic category planning and contract lifecycle management, with practical tools to improve performance.

Courses available:

• Contract Management

• Category Management

Learning Objectives:

• Craft and execute smarter category plans

• Strengthen supplier performance through fit-for-purpose contracts

• Understand risk, value levers, and negotiation techniques

Learning Audience:
Category managers, contract managers, legal and procurement business partners, commercial managers

SRM Rebooted: Bold, Provocative, Real

Session Overview:
Ready to rethink SRM? This session takes supplier engagement from routine to revolutionary. Learn how to co-create value, lead performance dialogues, and build stronger partnerships.

Courses available:

• Supplier & Customer Relationship Management (SCRM)

Learning Objectives:

• Understand SRM frameworks and supplier segmentation

• Use real-life case studies to explore supplier collaboration

• Practice stakeholder and supplier engagement strategies

Learning Audience:
Procurement professionals, SRM leads, vendor managers, commercial and business leaders working with suppliers

Agile Innovation: Get Stuff Done, Faster

Session Overview:
Move from process-heavy to outcome-driven. This training empowers you to break bottlenecks, embrace agile ways of working, and ignite creative problem-solving.

Courses available:

• Embed Agile Innovation

• Innovation in Procurement

Learning Objectives:

• Apply agile principles to procurement activities

• Rapidly prototype and iterate procurement solutions

• Drive innovation through cross-functional collaboration

Learning Audience:
Procurement innovation teams, transformation leaders, change agents, category managers

Smarter Data: Sharper Decisions

Session Overview:
Data is your most underused asset. Learn how to make sense of it, visualise it, and use it to tell compelling commercial stories that influence decisions and deliver value.

Courses available:

• Intelligent data to make decisions

Learning Objectives:

• Understand procurement data types and sources

• Turn insights into action through dashboards and storytelling

• Make data-backed decisions that resonate

Learning Audience:
Analysts, procurement professionals, finance and commercial teams, digital procurement leads

Psychology in Procurement

Session Overview:
People power procurement. Understand the behavioural science behind influence, relationships, and decision-making to lead and negotiate better.

Courses available:

• Bring Psychology into Procurement

• Procurement AI - systems, tech and efficiency

• Ai is a way, not a thing

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how people think, decide, and react

• Build emotional intelligence for procurement settings

• Apply behavioural tools to negotiations and stakeholder management

Learning Audience:
Leaders, buyers, contract negotiators, vendor managers, and anyone working with people!

Green. Ethical. Real.

Session Overview:
Cut through ESG fatigue and focus on creating authentic, tangible sustainability outcomes. This session makes ESG simple, strategic, and sticky.

Courses available:

• Ethical Procurement.

Learning Objectives:

• Define key sustainability concepts in procurement

• Identify ESG risks and opportunities

• Integrate social value and circularity into sourcing

Learning Audience:
Procurement teams, ESG officers, sustainability leads, supplier managers, risk & compliance teams

Future Leader Pathways

Session Overview:
Procurement is a launchpad to the C-suite. Explore what it takes to lead, influence, and transition from transactional to strategic operator.

Courses available:

• From CPO to CEO - your leadership pathways

Learning Objectives:

• Build executive presence and communication

• Understand how to navigate enterprise politics

• Identify leadership behaviours that lift careers

Learning Audience:
High-potential procurement professionals, team leaders, senior advisors, succession pipeline candidates

Change that Sticks

Session Overview:
Transformation is a buzzword until it's real. Learn how to embed sustainable change and uplift capability in your team or function that lasts beyond a PowerPoint.

Courses available:

• Transformational Success - make change stick

• Project Management - the basics

• Project Management - advanced

Learning Objectives:

• Apply change frameworks to procurement initiatives

• Sustain momentum post-transformation

• Build buy-in and manage resistance

Learning Audience:
Leaders driving change, transformation leads, PMOs, capability and enablement teams

Winning DNA: Skills for Future Teams

Session Overview:
Step into the leadership space with clarity. This session equips you to think strategically, build future-ready teams, and lead procurement from the front.

Courses available:

• Learning to lead

• Leading people leaders

• Winning Team DNA

• Winning Procurement Strategies

Learning Objectives:

• Develop strategic thinking and execution capabilities

• Understand future trends shaping procurement

• Lead with clarity, conviction, and creativity

Learning Audience:
Heads of procurement, team leaders, emerging leaders, capability builders, and strategy partners.