The Faculty Category Management | Align Strategy: Agreement on Vision and Steps
Is your team aligned on a clear, concise and compelling vision?
Category management is a strategic approach of managing externally sourced goods and services within discrete groups to drive significant benefits aligned to organisational objectives. Not many leaders and executives have a handle on category management theory yet understanding it can be foundational to business success.
This series of six masterclasses, will enable you to lead your stakeholders through a fresh approach to strategic planning for your category, and elevate how they perceive Procurement as a professional enabler of their business objectives. The framework will touch on theory and techniques, as well as provide you with a toolkit that will give you the confidence to Activate, Assess, Analyse, Align, Approve and Adapt a successful strategy.
Align everyone to an aspirational future!
To develop a category strategy that will deliver the required objectives, gaining stakeholder support in the ALIGN phase is critical. The ALIGN masterclass will help you discover:
- How to present a concise, comprehensive and compelling category strategy that allows stakeholders to understand the benefits and risks of options and enables them to support a recommendation
- The techniques of facilitation skills, design thinking and prioritisation
- tangible tools that assist you in gaining alignment of your stakeholders
Learning outcomes
- The theory and techniques applicable for this stage
- How to generate ideas and categorise
- How to assess ideas and test options
- How to finalise strategy and suite of initiatives
- How to use the tools and templates to professionalise your approach and gain credibility
Who is this for?
- Portfolio, purchasing, category or contract managers
- Supplier relationship managers
- Sourcing specialists
- Leaders in procurement
For more information on this event and The Faculty Roundtable Program, please contact [email protected]
