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Tom Mills and I have been talking a lot recently about the state of Procurement Content on LinkedIn and the insidious nature of the Procurement Dinosaur. An ideology among Procurement Professionals that hides behind the way we've done things in the profession for years and fights change. 

These people are blocking progress in the profession and we've had some brilliant, hilarious and almost comical exchanges with them on LinkedIn.   In this episode of the World of Procurement Podcast, we talk about: - Creating Procurement Content - Dinosaurs of Prourement  Enjoy my friends  

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World Commerce & Contracting announced on LinkedIn here that they are going to be focussing on Procurement Programs (or courses).

I'm genuinely intrigued to see what they focus on and how this compares with the offering from CIPS. 

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• Legal Ops is a ever growing profession which is usually led by non-qualified legal pros who manage and operate the legal capability within a business.


• Legal is often, like procurement, left a bit in the dark ages when it comes to process improvements, efficieny and tech. This might be due to lawyers who work in firms charging by the hour who then go in-house and don’t shift their way of thinking.


• Legal Ops will look at analytics, managing external legal suppliers, processes etc.


• There could be big benefits of having Legal Ops support the Procurement team and their contract review.

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I’ve spent a couple of weeks interviewing candidates for both legal and procurement roles and I wanted to share with you some ways in which I think you can crush your upcoming procurement interviews.

1. Make sure you’ve genuinely understood the JD and research your responses.


2. Procurement is fundamentally moving on from cost reduction to risk management and other value adding activities.


3. Be confident - easier said than done but this should come naturally if you’ve prepared


4. Preparation - think of what questions might come up and prep for them. There’s usually 3 types of questions: personal (getting to know you), technical (understanding your commercial skills and if you understand how to procure, risk manage, contract manage) and situational (scenarios that you’ve been in that highlight your technical skills).


5. Have questions about the company


6. Take your time - don’t waffle and get in a fluff.

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I’m always on the look out for good news stories when it comes to Procurement Tech.

You might wonder - why?

Because Procurement Tech, I believe, is going to enhance the way we manage our supply chains and contracts.

Contingent.ai, a company that provides risk insights on your Suppliers, just raised $8.2 million.

I pulled this directly from their website for you to see:

“The ProcureTech company has announced a funding round led by Octopus Ventures

• Cloud-based platform helps companies procure more strategically, and better manage supply chain risk and compliance


• The funding will be used to develop a suite of SaaS applications and to enable international expansion


• Contingent’s global customer base has been growing at 10x p.a. and includes companies such as Monzo, Seagate, Huel, Barratt Developments plc and HM Government”

Contingent is a company I’m genuinely happy to talk openly about in that I believe they are going to be the number one platform out there for managing risks and insights in your supply chain over the next 3-4 years.

Check them out.