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Overview

Procurement is the undervalued tool towards achieving Net-Zero. Procurement can help your organisation comply with environmental regulation, decrease costs and improve futureproofing.

Join our Effective Sustainable Procurement training course to gain an overview of the key aspects of sustainable procurement.

Gain a firmer understanding of the regulation impacting sustainable procurement and learn how to embed sustainability throughout your contracts and supply chains.

Learn how be more effective at ethical sourcing and use procurement to help your organisation achieve its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) goals.

Leave the day with a toolkit to procure in a more sustainable way.

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Please note we will use Zoom to virtually deliver this course.

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Gillian King
Procurement Professional and Trainer

Gillian King is a highly experienced procurement professional and trainer, with over 20 years’ experience in global procurement and supply chain management, working for government and multinational corporations in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Her sector experience is as a procurement professional, initially with the Civil Service in the UK Home Office and later as a global category leader for Zurich Financial Services, where her group annual spend was in excess of $400 M.

More recently she has provided consultancy and training to international government and ‘Blue Chip’ organisations in Abu Dhabi and Singapore, specialising in ...

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Learning Outcomes

  • Understand and apply the necessary regulation
  • Learn how procurement can help your organisation achieve its ESG goals
  • Improve how you manage sustainability across your supply chain
  • Learn how to better carry out ethical sourcing
  • Take back a procurement sustainability toolkit

Enquire About In-House Training

To speak to someone about a bespoke training programme, please contact us:

info@sustx.co.uk

Agenda

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09:25 - 09:30

Registration

09:30 - 10:00

Trainer’s Welcome and Clarification of Learning Objectives

10:00 - 10:45

Gain an Overview of Sustainability Regulation

  • Develop a better understanding of the relevant procurement policy notices
  • Understand the impact of the Procurement Bill
  • Align your procurement procedures to comply with relevant regulation
10:45 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 12:00

Sustainability and Contract and Supplier Performance Management

Imogen Terry, Account Manager, CDP – CONFIRMED

  • Define KPIs that suppliers must meet to align with your organisation’s sustainability mission
  • Ensure that sustainable practices are being maintained by suppliers
  • Learn how to best build your sustainability requirements into contracts
12:00 - 13:00

Effective Ethical Sourcing

  • Improve the sourcing and buying process of your procurement process
  • Ensure your sourcing process is more sustainable
  • Integrate greater transparency, visibility and traceability
13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 16:00

Workshop: Procurement Sustainability Toolkit

In this session, you’ll learn take back a robust procurement sustainability toolkit to your organisation.

  • Ensure your organisation is fully compliant with the necessary regulation
  • Align your procurement procedures with best practice
  • Learn how procurement can help support your organisation’s ESG goals.
  • Engender an appreciation of sustainable procurement across your organisation
  • Take back the key skills needed for your organisation
16:00 - 16:15

Round-Up and Key Takeaways