The Power of Business Partnering with The AA’s Karl Walton and Bibby Financial Services’ Tom Mills #37

“What is procurement to an organization? Always come back to that.”The power of business partnering is an often unfulfilled potential which can massively improve a procurement function’s impact on a business. Overcoming that first hurdle and making those connections is made easier through proper collaboration with the rest of the business, and helping stakeholders to understand the value in procurement.On this episode of Talent Talks we hear from Karl Walton, Senior IT Procurement Manager at The AA, and Tom Mills, who’s setting up an exciting new procurement function at Bibby Financial Services. We deep dive into introducing self service procurement into a function, how jargon-free training can help educate the whole business into seeing procurement’s potential, and the key pillars of a procurement framework.This episode of Talent Talks covers:How to embed effective business partnering in a procurement functionProving your worth without overpromising or under-deliveringDefining, measuring and delivering value in procurementTraining stakeholders to be advocates for procurementRaising the profile of the profession both internally and externallyThis episode of Talent Talks is sponsored by 4C Associates - a leading European procurement and supply chain consultancy, who work collaboratively with forward-thinking clients to deliver real business value across a wide range of transformation and cost optimisation service offerings. Visit https://www.4cassociates.com/ for more information.Links and references at: https://talentdrive.co.uk/