Interim Management in Procurement

🔊Interim Management – Driving Procurement forward

From October 2021 until October 2022, I had the pleasure of supporting a large corporation in Qatar as a Consultant and Interim Procurement Head to transform and restructure their Procurement organization. It started as a consulting project to identify improvement opportunities and initiate but the scope quickly expanded to a comprehensive Interim Management mandate. What was done:

✅Full-scale maturity and potential analysis from a practitioner’s perspective

✅Establish a comprehensive transformation plan to improve customer service, value contribution, and organizational effectiveness

✅Lead Procurement Team with day-to-day business

✅Search/selection of the new CPO and other key functions

✅Execute the transformation plan (organizational structure, processes, training, category management pilots, supplier relationship management program, and overall communication and change management activities)

✅Comprehensive digitalization roadmap to increase efficiency and supplier interaction (portal, catalogs, automation)

✍I love the mix. Interim Management mandates are excellent additions to my consulting projects. They allow me to continue working directly with people on projects, to coach, lead, and shape future organizations, and to stay close to day-to-day operations.

Interim Management is part of my portfolio, which goes far beyond InterimManagement

✅Transformation & Development and Restructuring of Procurement

✅Digital Procurement (Strategy, Architecture, Implementation)

✅Supplier and Supply Chain Risk Management erm and SCRM)

✅Regulatory Compliance (e.g. lksg csddd)

✅Sustainability (CBAM, scope3, etc.)

This combination of implementation-oriented consulting projects and Interim Management assignments guarantees eye-level communication while simultaneously „staying on top“ of all the exciting developments and technologies in Procurement. I can’t imagine just doing one (consulting) or the other (interim).

Thanks to the German Best In Procurement Magazine and Tobias Anslinger for this excellent article about Interim Managers (Katrin R. Feldner) in Procurement.