The Faculty Category Management | Activate Your Category: Setting Up for Success

How do you take the lead in a category review project? 

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.  

Promote yourself to become the CEO of your category! 

To develop a category strategy that will deliver the required objectives, scoping the category and building your category team in the ACTIVATE phase is critical.  

The ACTIVATE masterclass will help you discover: 

• The ultimate goal of harnessing stakeholder engagement and team excitement in the process of clearly articulating the category and the business objectives 
• Techniques of research, project management and stakeholder engagement 
• Tangible tools that assist you in activating your category and setting your team up for success 

Learning outcomes:  

• The theory and techniques applicable for this stage 
• How to clearly define the category 
• How to establish the category project governance 
• How to gain sponsor, stakeholder and team support 
• How to use the tools and templates to professionalise your approach and gain credibility 

Who is this for?  

• Leaders in procurement  
• Portfolio, purchasing, category or contract managers  
• Supplier relationship managers  
• Sourcing specialists  

For more information on this event and The Faculty Roundtable Program, please contact [email protected]