Procurement Strategy Training for the People Who Shape Business Outcomes
This course is built for procurement professionals responsible for translating commercial goals into actionable strategies. Whether you’re shaping category plans, leading supplier relationships, or improving total cost of ownership, we help teams think strategically and deliver measurable value from it.
This Learning Content Includes:
- High-impact learning
- Exams & assessments
- Simulations
- Expert Reviews
- Application based tasks
- Microlearning
- Serious games
- Webinar toolkits
Built for Procurement Leaders Who Set Direction and Deliver Results
This training is for the professionals responsible for shaping the future of procurement in their organisation, not just running it.
Whether you're designing long-term sourcing strategies, leading cross-functional initiatives, or aligning procurement with wider business objectives, this course builds the capability to lead with clarity, confidence, and commercial edge.
Strategic Procurement Training That Turns Vision Into Commercial Advantage
Your procurement strategy shapes everything from supplier relationships to sustainable business impact. This course helps teams go beyond operations and start leading procurement with intention, clarity, and measurable value.
Setting Strategic Direction That Gets Results
- Crafting Procurement Vision, Mission & Strategy
Learn how to define a procurement vision that aligns with business goals and turn it into a functional strategy. From scoping your objectives to embedding them in day-to-day actions, we help learners connect ambition with execution. - Driving Value Management in Every Category
Master the twelve ways procurement teams can realise value, beyond just cost cutting. Teams will explore how to articulate, measure, and report value contribution across categories, using TCO models, working capital metrics, and spend analysis. - Building a Business Case That Holds Up Under Scrutiny
Procurement leaders need numbers to match their narrative. This section trains your team in NPV, decision trees, scenario planning, and risk-adjusted evaluation, all backed by Monte Carlo simulations for added credibility.
Supplier Management as a Strategic Lever
- Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) at a Strategic Level
Go beyond basic SRM with practical tools to segment suppliers, identify strategic partnerships, and evaluate performance over time. Teams will use frameworks like the combined relationship matrix, preference models, and lessons learned reviews. - Handling Dominant Suppliers with Confidence
When the power balance is skewed, strategy matters most. This part of the course equips learners to confirm supplier dominance, expand strategic options, and prepare for negotiations that reset the terms. - Championing Supplier Diversity with Structure
Learn how to build and maintain a supplier diversity programme that aligns with regulation and stakeholder expectations. Your team will explore the legal foundations, diversity process stages, and how to monitor progress effectively.
Embedding Risk, Sustainability & Fraud Controls
- Sustainable Procurement Strategies That Stick
Discover how to embed sustainability into the heart of procurement operations. From supplier audits to human rights due diligence, we show teams how to build programmes that deliver ethical, environmental, and commercial value. - Procurement's Role in Fraud Prevention
Equip learners with tools to spot and prevent procurement fraud. We cover common motivations, early warning signs, and the controls every team should implement to reduce risk without slowing down progress.
Designed for Strategic Procurement Teams That Want More Than Theory
This training gives procurement professionals the confidence to lead with insight, not just follow processes. Built by experts, backed by industry feedback, and focused on real commercial outcomes, it's strategy training that earns its place.
Shaped by Procurement Leaders, Not Just Trainers
Every module is built by specialists who've led procurement transformations. That means learners gain tools that are grounded in experience, not just textbook models.
Focused on Strategy That Sticks
We don't just cover frameworks, we focus on how to implement them. From supplier segmentation to long-term value tracking, this course ensures your team can put strategy into action straight away.
Rated Highly by Procurement Teams Across Industries
From manufacturing to services, learners rate this course for its relevance, clarity, and depth. Whether you're managing analysts or leading at executive level, the skills built here drive lasting business impact.
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Your Team Will Learn:
- Relationship management
- Vision, mission & strategy
- Fraud prevention
- Value management
- Measurement and ROI
- Dominant suppliers
- Supplier diversity
- Business case analytics
- Sustainability
Suitable for the Following Roles:
Operational Buyer
Procurement Analyst
Buyer / Senior Buyer
Contract Manager
Category Manager
Procurement Manager
Support Manager
Quality Assurance Manager
Real Clients. Real Teams. Real Results.
Herman Savenije
The individualized learning plans, based on a pre-assessment, enable optimal learning success.
Lindsay Jett
Skill Dynamics gives team leaders a lot of flexibility to develop each of their team members in their specific areas, or grow into new ones.
Stefan Menziger, CEO
Skill Dynamics provides exactly what is needed in the world’s changing environment.
Frequently Asked Questions
This course is designed for professionals involved in shaping procurement direction, whether that’s developing supplier strategies, overseeing category plans, or aligning spend with business goals. It’s a strong fit for procurement managers, analysts, senior buyers, and category leads who want to elevate their influence and impact.
You’ll build confidence in creating and delivering a procurement strategy that works in practice, not just on paper. That includes setting a clear direction, making the most of supplier relationships, spotting opportunities for long-term value, and measuring your impact in a way the business understands.
Most training focuses on how to buy well. This goes a level up, into how to plan, lead, and evolve procurement as a strategic function. It covers the mindset and methods needed to drive business value, influence internal partners, and manage complex supplier dynamics.
Yes. We cover SRM in depth, helping you segment suppliers, analyse relationship value, and manage dominant suppliers with confidence, all tied back to your strategic goals.
It does. We go beyond the basics to help you build sustainability into supplier evaluations, procurement decisions, and business cases, ensuring ethics, impact, and long-term thinking are part of the plan.
Explore More Competencies in Our Procurement Academy...
Sustainability
Sustainability should be built into everyday procurement decisions. This competency helps learners embed ESG thinking into sourcing strategies, supplier choices, and cost evaluations - without compromising value or resilience.
Category Management Training
Take a strategic approach to procurement by empowering your organization to segment business spend into key areas with similar products.
Buying & Merchandising
Learn how to plan and manage successful promotional campaigns, select products, build ranges, measure success and develop pricing and ethical strategies.
Contract and Supplier Management
Develop the skills and knowledge to administer contracts and manage contract risks, work effectively with key stakeholders and improve overall supplier performance.
Digital Procurement
Understand how the latest digital technologies are enabling high-performing procurement teams to reduce administration, increase compliance and improve spend under management.
Legal and Regulatory
Master the legal and regulatory frameworks that impact organizations every day from contract laws, guidelines and regulations that govern buying goods, works and services from your suppliers.
Negotiation
Develop the critical skills procurement professionals need to succeed at the negotiating table, master the core strategies and principles and leverage the latest behavioral techniques such as cognitive bias, Game Theory and NLP.
Procurement Strategy
Understand how to develop a procurement vision and mission statement that delivers sustainable value and learn how to turn your vision into a functioning strategy.
Sourcing
Develop the critical skills, know-how and techniques to master sourcing from running RFI and RFP’s to conducting market analysis, selecting suppliers and managing projects.
Finance Management Training
Learn how to effectively plan, manage, and control business costs through a cost management system. Develop a total cost of ownership approach and understand how to calculate cost breakdowns.
Operational Procurement
Understand the Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) process, achieving compliance targets by reducing “Maverick Buying”, learn how to improve cost per transaction and use tools such as e-procurement, VMI and purchase cards.
Project Management
Understand the critical role of the project manager in forming a highly optimized procurement team. Learn about building time and resource plans, project governance, business cases, establishing project controls and effective stakeholder management.
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