SRSCC are holding an Online Careers Day!
When?
19th January 2023, 12-4pm.
Why?
The purpose of this event is to educate and inspire Apprentices’ looking to further their career progression within procurement. During the day, our Progress Mentor Team will provide learners with new skills to add to their inventory, as well as offering further advice. We’ll also have previous Apprentices, Line Managers, Apprenticeship Leads and Special Guests attending to discuss their personal experience of learning and how this has helped them progress into higher level roles.
What’s the Agenda?
12-12:30pm- Welcome and Introduction to the Learner Hub
12:30-1pm- Growth Mindset Session and SDI Activity#
1-1:30pm- Team Building Personal Development Exercise
1:30-2pm- CV Writing Workshop
2-2:30pm- Interview Technique Workshop
2:30-3pm- Discover Procurement Job Roles & L6 Senior Procurement and Supply Chain Professional Apprenticeship Update from CEO
3-4pm- Q&A Panel with current learners, Line Managers, and special guest appearances from:
Emma Law MCIPS- Head of Strategy and Resources at Orbis Partnership-
Emma has extensive experience in public sector procurement, having worked at the Environment Agency for ten years leading procurement in a wide range of sectors, but particularly on their extensive and varied fleet, including bulldozers, diggers and dumpers as well as regular cars. Emma also led on all travel, venue and hotels and a wide range of corporate contracts. This work had a strong sustainability focus as one would expect from the Environment Agency and as such there was also a real focus on a sustainable approach to strategic procurement and making the most of social value – such as transferring 75% of external meetings into local suppliers from the third sector. This focus on adding value in a challenging public environment led Emma to make her transition into local government in 2013 leading Childrens Services procurement at East Sussex County Council.
Emma was brought in to lead procurement focus across East Sussex and Surrey County Councils in Children’s services, but Emma was also tasked with working with Legal Services to redraft the Council’s Standing Orders (procurement rules) and she delivered that in her first six months in post, leading to a more simplified approach to procurement rules and guidance for the wider Council.
Emma was promoted onto the senior leadership team at the inception of the Orbis Procurement partnership between East Sussex, Surrey County Council and Brighton and Hove City Council and as had two key roles in this sizeable collaborative unit, which has around 110 staff and a spend of around £1.7 billion per annum. Emma originally led on Policy Resources and Development and then moved into a more focused role around Strategy and Resources.
Currently Emma heads up a range of elements within Orbis including Strategy, the Portfolio Management Office, the Data and Analytics Team and leading on people development, overseeing all elements of people development from recruitment through career pathways and learning and development for the service.
Emma is also the Chair of the Trailblazer group (working with IFATE) which is spearheading the production of a level 6 procurement apprenticeship (due to be released in 2023).
Ben McCluskey FCIPS- Procurement & Supply Chain Director at AMCO Giffen:
Ben is fully chartered and a fellow of the procurement profession with experience across a wide breadth of construction related sectors. A strong team player with incisive commercial awareness,
proficient analytical skills, proven negotiation ability and able to adapt to new environments. Ben has had good exposure to a wide variety of trades and packages encompassing both Subcontract and Materials procurement.
After 14 years in the industry and previous roles at Carillion, Laing O’Rourke and Balfour Beatty and J Murphy & Sons. Ben joined AmcoGiffen in April 2022 in a newly created role of Procurement & Supply Chain Director. Here has been tasked with creating, implementing, and developing a new Procurement and supply chain strategy to radically transform the way the business interacts a
nd deals with its key partners. One of the key aims of this new direction is to enhance value through collaboration. This will be attained through the vision of “More through less and closer to fewer.”
He has a strong presence within the discipline and is actively involved and promotes AmcoGiffen and the construction sectors within the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply community. This i
s in various forms including the CIPS Construction Leaders Forum, CIPS Principal Marker, and internal mentor and lead for any staff working towards MCIPS.
Whilst working for J Murphy & Sons Ben sponsored and lead the function to the CIPS Procurement Excellence Standard in 2019. Building on this at AmcoGiffen he lead the function to achieving the Corporate Ethical Procurement and Supply standard in June 2022.
Ben attended The University of Sheffield and attained a 2:1 in Economics graduating in 2008. On graduating he joined the Carillion Graduate programme within the supply chain function. He immediately began working towards his Chartership attaining MCIPS status in July 2011. In March 2020 Ben was awarded FCIPS status. He is a passionate believer in the importance of the MCIPS qualification in both building the profile of the profession and also making a difference to sourcing ethically and economically.
Both guests will be able to provide huge amounts of information and real life experience about how important studying is to the success of individuals working within Procurement and Supply, and how to climb the ladder within different sectors.
How to get involved
If this event sounds something that you would benefit from and you’re an existing Apprentice at SRSCC, then please request the Zoom registration link from support@srscc.co.uk or contact your Progress Mentor for further information.
We look forward to seeing you all there!
