Term
| Leadership roles in purchasing |
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Definition
head of purchasing (or cpo)
senior purchasing manager
purchasing manager (or category manager)
purchasing leadership team
purcashing team leaders |
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Term
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Definition
overall responsibility for work of purchasing function
strategic leadership in areas such as policy development
represents the function in dealings with other departments:
- stakeholder management
- interpersonal and
- communication skills |
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Term
| senior purchasing manager |
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Definition
leader / co-ordinator of team of purchasing managers (or cross-functional purchasing council)
within strategy framework, responsible for
- broad decisions on market evaluation,
- sourcing,
- appraisal/selection of suppliers,
- negotiations with suppliers,
- award of contracts
may be responsible for single category of purchase |
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Term
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Definition
similar in scope to senior purchasing manager at lower lvel
large organisations: a team, each responsible for a category
role typically ends with award of contracts |
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Term
| purchasing leadership team |
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Definition
Team comprising senior members of purchasing function, led by HoP
co-ordination / communication mechanism
meetings focus on strategic direction > flow down to purchasing staff |
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Term
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Definition
contracts manager
supplies manager
project managers
with responsibility for particular areas, leading teams / sections etc |
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Term
| Leadership focus in purchasing |
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Definition
ethics
strategy
kpi
integration
networks
stakeholder |
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Term
| leadership focus in purchasing (ethics) |
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Definition
| ethical leadership (via input to environmental, sustainability, CSR goals) |
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Term
| leadership focus in purchasing (strategy) |
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Definition
| Purchasing and supply strategy formulation and alignment |
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Term
| leadership focus in purchasing (kpi) |
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Definition
| establishing and applying meaningful KPIs for purchasing activity |
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Term
| leadership focus in purchasing (integration) |
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Definition
| integrating purchasing activity within the organisation and supply chain |
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Term
| leadership focus in purchasing (network) |
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Definition
| network leadership (directing multi-functional teams, creating supply chain partnerships) |
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Term
| leadership focus in purchasing (stakeholder) |
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Definition
| securing stakeholder buy-in to plans, initiatives, projects |
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