Each year, Business Talent Group releases the High-End Independent Talent Report, looking across industries and business functions to analyze how business leaders deploy top independent talent to fill critical skill, expertise, and leadership gaps. Here are the key procurement trends for 2021.
In many organizations, procurement leaders not only manage their own independent talent engagements, but also those of other functions throughout the business. In addition to building enterprise-wide on-demand talent programs, procurement leaders are also tapping independent expertise in their strategic planning exercises, supply chain initiatives, process transformations, and change management efforts.
PROJECT CATEGORIES: Procurement
| 47% Strategy |
| 28% Operations |
| 12% Transformation |
| 11% Organization |
| 2% Interim Executive |
MOST IN-DEMAND PROJECTS
Planning
Supply Chain
Opportunity Assessment
Business Processes
Change Management
MOST IN-DEMAND SKILLS
Project Management
Sourcing and Procurement
Market Landscape and Research
Regulatory Strategy, Process, and Submissions
Process Optimization and Transformation
Change Management
SAMPLE PROCUREMENT PROJECTS
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Audit suppliers to identify gaps and recommend corrective action in line with the Responsible Business Alliance framework
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Analyze opportunities to leverage automation and digitalization in procurement strategies
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Build a bench of flexible project management resources to fill gaps in process optimization, change management, and data analysis workstreams
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Plan and lead organizational change management and communications activities for a new enterprise procurement system implementation
