How to Procurement Guides - Premier Edition

These are my Premium slides, the key reference points to help you - explain Procurement to your stakeholders, keep by your side as a useful reminder or help you prepare for that all important interview.

Contained within this pack are several slide decks.

1.     Slide Deck 1: The top 5 books on Negotiation according to most lists. I've read them all and saved hours of your time by pulling out the key notes from each. You can use this as a reference guide ahead of any negotiation or share within your business to help with your training courses.

2.     Slide Deck 2: Top picks for Negotiation books written by Women. All the top lists on negotiation seem to be by male authors. There's some brilliant ones written by women and I've added them here with some key lessons included.

3.     Slide Deck 3: Procurement Acronyms - The complete guide. I've surveyed 1000s of Procurement Pros to pick out and explain in this simple guide what each one means. Don't ever be caught out not knowing what a particular acronym stands for. Or even better, share these with your stakeholders so you can help them understand the jargon.

4. Slide Deck 4: FOB Explained - Meaning of the Terms of Sales. Involved in exporting or important goods? Buying Internationally or dealing with Supply Chain colleagues who do? Never be caught unawares on how it all breaks down, with this easy to follow user guide.

5.     Slide Deck 5: The History of Procurement. I've distilled it down in this user friendly and impactful guide. Use it to help understand the profession and how we've evolved. Be that step ahead in an interview or store it on your intranet.

6.     Slide Deck 6: 8 Critical Skills Your Procurement Function Needs - This is a bit like the perfect guide to an interview question. It's got me the job every time. It might help you as a hiring manager too. Spread the word using this slide deck.

7.     Slide Deck 7: Digital Procurement - The user guide to tech - Again, imagine having this guide at your fingertips when you're trying to explain the future of our profession to anyone that will listen. Nail that interview question or just use this guide to be one step ahead.

8.     Slide Deck 8: Which RFX Guide Is Right for You? - This is my favourite and gets the best feedback of all. It's a simple guide, made in an engaging way, to help explain to stakeholders the difference between and RFI, RFQ and RFP. Every Procurement pro should have this at their fingertips.

9. Slide Deck 9: The First 90 days Plan - Interview Question. Sample Presentation. This is the exact presentation I used to land my current Head of Procurement role. The most common interview presentation (2nd stage) is to set out your approach to the first 90days. Use this framework to nail the job.

I spend hours of research pulling these guides together so you don't have to and so that you can be one step ahead of the rest.