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If you need to accelerate the performance of your procurement leadership team, please contact:

Jon Hughes
+44 (0) 7958 763159 ejhughes@futurepurchasing.com

If you need to strengthen the leadership team through executive search, please contact:

Jim Burley
+44 (0) 7818 064352 jburley@futurepurchasing.com
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Leadership Assessment - Procurement and Supply Chain Leaders

Our team of professionally qualified facilitators, assessors and occupational psychologists work closely with three types of client : firstly, the main board wishing to strengthen and develop top procurement and supply chain leadership;  secondly, CPOs, VPs Supply Chain, as well as their leadership teams and thirdly, individual procurement / supply chain leaders. We bring objectivity and precision to leadership assessment and the prediction of leadership performance.

Strategy Challenge
&
Building Strategic Skills
Executive Search
&
Leadership Benchmarking

Leadership Assessment of
Individuals & Teams

Leadership Coaching
&
Delivering High Performance
Outplacement
&
Working With
Strengths

In a highly positive and supportive manner, we help our clients define what they need; assess competence and leadership potential; provide an accurate profile of individual and collective leadership strengths; and advise them on how to address the gaps.

Leadership assessment can be incorporated into executive search, strategy mobilisation, leadership coaching and outplacement. It is also central to helping clients deal with a wide range of organisational challenges and constraints. It is a powerful aid to effective talent management and making the right decisions about leadership.

Ten Typical Leadership and
Organisational Challenges ...
... and Ten Ways of Assessing CPOs
and Procurement Leadership Teams
  • CPO, procurement, supply chain and pivotal leader appointments
  • Strengthening leadership teams
  • Assessing high potential talent
  • Strategy redefinition and acceleration of breakthrough change
  • Internal leadership team conflicts
  • Improving poor collaboration
  • Dealing with difficult stakeholders and cross-functional colleagues
  • Post-merger procurement team integration
  • Supporting business leaders on personal development coaching
  • Career counselling and outplacement: providing future direction
  • Behavioural & competence based interviewing
  • Benchmarking functional excellence
  • Predicting leadership potential
  • Assessing cultural & organisational alignment
  • Defining & auditing key behaviours
  • Creating ideal role & skills profiles
  • Using e-mail, telephone & face-to-face 360° feedback
  • Running assessment / development centres
  • Incorporating the most relevant psychometric tools
  • Facilitating honest feedback & difficult conversations
   

Our leadership assessment service combines deep knowledge of best practice procurement and the different types of initiatives being pursued by major organisations worldwide, with the penetrating insights provided by skilled and empathetic behavioural assessors. This can be invaluable for board level planning, procurement leadership team restructuring and strengthening of what is often a relatively neglected business function.

For more information about our approach, please access Leadership and Talent Management Briefing 4, "CPOs:  Functional Improvers or Business Pioneers?