Our next Member event, in partnership with Karmarama, The DMA and the CIPS Marketing SIG, will discuss the conflicts between marketing and procurement, between procurement and agencies, and between agencies and their marketing clients.

Marketing clients, and the procurement professionals acting with them, need to ensure that they achieve maximum value from their agency relationships, and agencies need to ensure they are run as profitable, sustainable businesses.

Working together we can come to a better appreciation of the complex iterative creative processes involved in developing advertising and marketing communications, so that the inputs involved are valued fairly and realistically.

This motivational and engaging conference will discuss the globalised world in which we live and work and the challenges facing the profession in ensuring the relevant skill sets for it to be both a doer, and enabler along with ensuring that it goes beyond the savings and delivers tangible value.   Focussed on the key areas of research of the CIPS 80:20 Vision, the event will consider how the business environment has changed and what the next two decades hold for the procurement and supply profession to ensure it is best equipped to meet the demands of today’s business world.  You will learn from global senior procurement practitioners across both public and private sectors, how they have changed, how they deal with new challenges that they face, and what successes they have achieved.

Following the global food supply chain crisis, in the afternoon session we will facilitate a highly topical debate - ‘Supply Chain Risk – how do we effectively manage our suppliers to mitigate risk?’ Our panel of leading experts in procurement and supply chain will discuss the recent crisis and examine what best practice looks like whilst answering questions from the audience.

The event also provides excellent networking opportunities enabling you to share ideas and make new connections which can lead to long-lasting and profitable business relationships.

All delegates at the event will receive a complimentary copy of 'Leadership in procurement and supply' one of the official course books for the Professional Diploma in Procurement and Supply.

Please note: if you are a Member of CIPS or the British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce based in Switzerland, please contact rebecca.goff@cips.org to book your place. Otherwise please book below.