A strategically focused service designed to support clients searching for senior Procurement and Supply Chain Professionals

Procurement & Supply Chain

Procurement and Supply Chain is a fast growing and evolving practice area. More than ever before, these critical business functions have taken the spotlight, and they now take centre stage for many global businesses.

In fact global pressures have transformed what used to be seen as tactical functions into a more strategic role with leaders requiring a wider range of skills and attributes to work within what has become a complex environment, connecting every aspect of the business.

However, with the pre-existing and well documented “war on talent”, the industry is now facing a serious talent shortage, with businesses facing the increased pressure of securing and retaining top professionals with the right skill set.

At Manners Maclean we partner with clients to understand their business challenges and demands, identify talent shortages and develop strategic talent programs designed to address, not only, their current leadership needs but also their future requirements.

In-house research combined with our sector expertise allows us to stay abreast of the constantly evolving market demands and the subsequent skills requirements, ultimately allowing us to identify and engage with the best Procurement and Supply Chain talent in the market.

The Changing Face of Procurement

You could say that Procurement has historically been considered as a transactional, almost administrative function. Nowadays, this could not be further from the truth, in fact over the last 10 years the role of procurement had evolved into a primary function now securely positioned at the centre of the business strategy, with an ever increasing opportunity to affect change.

Senior Procurement professionals are now responsible for an extensive range of operations, they identify and understand global market trends, manage a global supplier base and know exactly how to create opportunities to add value.

Procurement leaders manage key relationships at all levels connecting every aspect of a business internally and externally through strategic partners, suppliers, customers as well as internal stakeholders.

Ultimately, modern Procurement professionals need to be both excellent strategists and operators.

The Supply Chain Challenge

It goes without saying that a dynamic and innovative Supply Chain is a vital element to creating sustained, global economic growth and development. When optimised, an organisation’s supply chain can truly become a competitive advantage.

But an optimised supply chain requires talent with a varied skill set that’s not only hard to identify but more often than not even harder to find.

Modern supply chain are strategic thinkers, they’re planners and influencers and strategic partners. They have developed cross-functional experience across product innovation, combined with serious business acumen as well as technical and systems knowledge.

Our capability

Understanding your business is our starting point. Everything we do after that is based on providing the right outcome for you.

In fact, our comprehensive portfolio of data driven solutions have been intelligently created to enable us to give you efficient and effective programs flexible enough to meet the demands, and budgets, of any client.

Add to this, the focused nature of our business combined with both the sector and functional specialism of our consultants, means that our clients can leverage deep and long term relationships.

Ultimately this means that we can provide our clients with immediate access to a highly concentrated network of specialist candidates who would not normally respond to an approach from an unknown source.