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The CIPS Australia Procurement Professional Awards 2009

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A new way to demonstrate best practice   

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Following the continuing success of our Procurement Professional Awards programme, we are delighted to be launching the Procurement Professional Awards for 2009. These awards have quickly become established, prestigious and popular, with many more entries last year compared to the year before. 

This awards programme highlights the varied contribution that our profession is making to organisations throughout the private and public sector. This recognition is not only beneficial to the confidence and career progression of individuals working in the profession, but also for their organisations and stakeholders as it will highlight the direct and wide ranging benefits that accrue to them from their investment in professional Procurement. This awards programme is a new, modern way to demonstrate best practice for everyone’s benefit.

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Procurement may be the fastest growing profession in business, but its individual practitioners rarely promote their hard-earned achievements or accept due recognition. It is still not really part of our procurement ‘culture.’ The 3rd Annual CIPS Australia Procurement Professional Awards are just a step in the right direction towards correcting this imbalance.

The judging criteria for the awards will recognise the broad range of skill areas in which  procurement professionals excel - including project management, negotiation, supplier management, cost reduction, process improvement, individual initiative, teamwork and growth. In a word it will recognise contribution.

The award categories themselves highlight the surprisingly wide range of vital activities that are undertaken within organisations by procurement professionals, from maintaining supplier partnerships to process improvement and from cross-functional initiatives to developing their own professionalism – all built upon the management of the organisation’s external resource base. This year we have added another new category – Best Infrastructure & Capital Works Project; recognising the procurement contribution in this area.

Please do not be shy, and enter the awards by Friday 14th August 2009, for the benefit of your stakeholders and your organisation – not just yourself. Show us a new way to demonstrate best practice.

Both the CIPS CEO, Simon Sperryn, and I look forward to seeing you at the Procurement Professional Awards dinner on the evening of 14th October in Melbourne, and enjoying the successes that will doubtless be richly deserved.
 
Jonathan Dutton FCIPS
Managing Director
CIPS Australia