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Corporate Award

Business improvement, personal development

Corporate Award is a tailored, accredited and applied training programme designed to develop professional procurement expertise and support business improvement.

Corporate Award ensures that your employees’ knowledge and skills are up-to-date and having a tangible impact in the workplace. 

30% of every programme is tailored to address the specific learning needs of your organisation, enabling you to a demonstrate a clear return on investment (ROI) and measurable cost benefits.  Also, all programmes are accredited to a global standard and can lead to MCIPS grade of membership.

Designed to challenge and stimulate creative thinking, Corporate Award is best suited to groups of between eight and 16 people. It harnesses tacit knowledge within an organisation and transforms individuals into internal ‘consultants’, helping to raise the profile of your in-house expertise and develop competitive advantage.

How

We provide cost-effective, modular study programmes to suit your organisation’s work patterns. Practical assignments and live business projects ensure learning is directly applied back in to your organisation. 

The first level of the CIPS Corporate Award leads to the Corporate Award Procurement Practitioner View our product brochureand awards Associate Membership status.

At the more advanced level, the Corporate Award Advanced Practitioner enables full membership and, providing the individual has attained three years experience in a responsible role in purchasing, permits them to use MCIPS after their name.

Studying for our programmes can be a challenge but many students find that they can obtain invaluable support from working with colleagues on an in-house programme.

The highlights:

  • Skills gap analysis for all participants
  • Interactive workshops
  • Practical assignments
  • Live business project
  • Multi channel delivery of learning
  • Global standard of accredited training
  • Tailor made for both the organisation and individuals

To find out more about the costs and benefits of Corporate Award, complete the online form and one of our team will contact you, alternatively, contact us on  +44 (0)1780 756777 

Benefits

 

Benefits and customer testimonials

  • Value: CIPS Corporate Award delivers proven ROI from applied, practical projects.
  • Professionalism: Positive changes in performance, attitude and behaviour that greatly benefit organisational reputation are frequent outcomes
  • Accreditation: The award provides students with a route to professional membership status - MCIPS – the globally recognised standard in procurement and supply
  • Business improvement: Students drive improvements directly back into your organization through work based projects and assignments and develop skills that have the power to deliver competitive advantage
  • Talent: Corporate Award unlocks potential, develops expertise and increases talent management opportunities. 

 

What our customers say 

There is an obvious improvement in the knowledge base of those participating and their understanding of procurement, the procurement process and contract law.

They now possess a greater ability to deal with their peers, both within other government departments and from the private sector, on a level playing field of professionalism.”

Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency UK

 

The enhanced professionalism of the teams has raised the credibility of the function within the organisation and helped to facilitate greater focus on supply chain matters.

And not least, the projects undertaken as part of the programme have delivered measurable benefits and savings and all successful students have gone on to deliver further savings in their procurement roles.”

QinetiQ 

 

As a business Perkins is underpinned strongly by 6Sigma methodology. Within the advanced programme of Corporate Award it was a mandatory requirement for each person to lead and develop a 6Sigma project to deliver bottom line benefit to the business.

The overall savings from the first wave of students was $1.1m in value proposition.”

Perkins

To find out more about the costs and benefits of Corporate Award, complete the online form and one of our team will contact you, alternatively, contact us on  +44 (0)1780 756777.

Case studies

Many organisations Organisations have benefited from the CIPS Corporate Award.  They vary in both by sector and location and include:

  • Marks & Spencer
  • Government Department for Work & Pensions
  • BP Angola
  • Royal Mail (UK)
  • Coca-Cola Hellenic
  • Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) (UK)
  • Sellafield Ltd
  • Perkins
  • QinetiQ
  • Qatar Foundation
  • AstraZenica
  • Qantas
  • Kazakstan Petroleum Oil

Click on the links below to read detailed case studies:

DVLA - Public Sector

MTS - Telecommunications

Perkins - Manfacturing

Royal Mail - Distribution

Sellafield Ltd - Energy

To find out more about the costs and benefits of Corporate Award, complete the online form and one of our team will contact you, alternatively, contact us on +44 (0)1780 756777  

Contact us

For more information on how CIPS Corporate Award can support the development your business and your procurement staff, contact us now.

 

Europe: +44 (0)1780 756777; Australasia: +61 3 9629 6000; Africa: +27 12 345 6177; MENA: +971 (0) 4327 7348