George Post

Facilitator
Main procurement specialisms:
Professional Services, IT, Outsourcing, SRM, Stakeholder Engagement, Category Management
Companies previously worked for:
Johnson & Johnson, United Parcel Service, General Electric
Most senior role held:
Director of World Headquarters Procurement
Greatest achievements in Procurement:
1. Category strategies for a large portfolio of professional services
2. Programme development for strategy implementation
3. Global stakeholder engagement
Best procurement advice I’ve been given:
Align your procurement strategies with those of your key stakeholders
Procurement advice I’d give:
Consider each strategy or programme as if it were a business case analysis/justification. Think of why it would make sense to your business partners.
Build trusting and genuine relationships with your stakeholders and suppliers, and endeavour to be viewed as a source of strategic wisdom
What I wish I’d known:
How profoundly impactful the internet would be on business, in terms of how work is done