Post-conference full-day in-depth learning sessions
Thursday 21 July
Registration and morning coffee for both sessions is at 08:30 and sessions will conclude at 17:00. Lunch, morning and afternoon tea provided. Choose between:
In-depth Learning Session A
How to recruit, train and retain a world class procurement team
This practical and interactive session is tailored for procurement professionals from financial and professional services that have difficulties in attracting the right staff, building the skills of their existing team or retaining staff. During this session recruitment processes and educational approaches will be analysed in order to help you develop the required procurement skills in your team.
Key topics and take away skills/benefits:
- Analyse the required procurement skillset needed in the financial sector
- Examine how best to build or attract these purchasing capabilities in order achieve a competitive advantage
- Understand the challenges during recruitment processes and how to overcome them
- Compare and discuss your recruitment models and practices with other procurement professionals in the financial sector
- Learn how to build the right educational approaches that best fits best your organisation
- Gain insights into the benefits and disadvantages of contingent vs flexible workforce for financial sector procurement divisions
Session Facilitator:
Greg Edmonds
Managing Director
Charles Kendall Australia
In-depth Learning Session B
Implementing strategies to reduce costs and mitigate risk
This value-packed session is specifically designed for all procurement professionals within the financial and professional services who want to understand how to reduce costs while mitigating the risk of non-compliance in an environment of increased regulations, tighter controls and greater scrutiny from governing bodies. During this learning session, the key regulatory obstacles within procurement divisions will be identified and different ways to achieve tangible cost savings will be explored.
Key topics and take away skills/benefits:
- Identify the key regulatory obstacles to effective procurement operations and how it affects outcomes – a regulatory impact assessment
- Analyse the four main levers for optimising procurement costs and achieving cost reductions: price management, vendor consolidation, demand consolidation and demand optimization
- Explore different ways the procurement function needs to be transformed to show it understands and supports business needs and delivers tangible cost savings
- Find the right balance for delivering cost savings without consequences for risk exposure
- Gain insights into the main difficulties when identifying, measuring, monitoring, and report on specific risks during cost reduction operations and how to overcome them
- Compare and discuss your current strategies with other procurement professionals in the sector to improve current cost saving and regulatory compliance practices
Session Facilitator:
Jason Masters
Managing Director
Jason Masters