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Buy one get one free this December

Strategic Procurement Leadership Programme

Lift your thinking from the transactional to the strategic in just 12 hours with December’s Strategic Procurement Leadership Programme, hosted by PASA’s Chief Content Creator Jonathan Dutton FCIPS.

The intermediate-level course will take place online between 3-5 December, consisting of three four-hour mornings that kick off at 9am AEDT.

Sign up now and get two tickets for the price of one, providing the opportunity to bring a colleague along. Elevate your procurement strategies while enjoying a unique opportunity to learn together.

Recently restructured and fully revised for the post-COVID era, the flexible program addresses the most important questions and key challenges that modern procurement teams face today.

Engage with international thought leaders, explore over 50 real-world case studies and learn the latest procurement theories. Collaborate with a colleague to implement strategic practices, tackle current challenges and future proof your approach in a post-pandemic world.

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The programme

The Strategic Procurement Leadership Programme is split into 14 segments, including:

  1. Procurement leadership
  2. Strategic procurement and risk management
  3. The business case for SRM
  4. Buying during inflationary times
  5. Delivering value beyond savings
  6. ESG – making it real
  7. Goal alignment – the secret to it all?
  8. Tracking up your IN-BOUND supply chain
  9. Supply chain management and the BIG question
  10. Managing downstream drama
  11. Building procurement capability
  12. Agile procurement – part of the answer
  13. Category management – is it really working?
  14. How to make sourcing strategic


For more details on each segment

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What will you gain?

By the end of the programme, you will:

  • Understand the context and complexity within which modern strategic procurement has to deliver and meet stakeholder needs – especially those post-COVID pandemic
  • Determine quickly the difference between procurement leadership and management, and WHY it matters 
  • Grasp thoroughly the essentials and the mindset of a strategic approach to procurement
  • Confidently manage suppliers and colleagues through a more strategic procurement process during a polycrisis
  • Utilise a core range of strategic procurement tools, techniques and approaches to suit your situation
  • Develop the true role of procurement for your organisation, and take a more strategic and balanced approach that is right for your organisation


Who’s it for?

The course, which will include real-life examples from numerous case studies, is designed for experienced procurement managers working to take their next step into a leadership role, as well as experienced category managers, analysts and practising procurement professionals.

Sign up today and join around 1,000 previous attendees who have taken the course since 2013, including executives from organisations such as Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, Telstra, Novartis, Foxtel, most Australian state governments, Petronas, Oil Search, Bluescope, EY, PWC and many others.

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