Capability Development

What We Do

Equipoise develops your internal team’s capability so they can deliver Sustainable Procurement action.

  1. Our Capability Diagnostic helps you understand your team’s current level of sustainable procurement maturity across skills, systems, policies and processes

  2. We use your results and the ISO 20400 Sustainable Procurement framework to design a prioritised Development Roadmap that will plug your competency gaps.

  3. We deliver Capability Development initiatives like training, process design and policy writing to embed sustainable procurement excellence

Benefits

  • Discover sustainable procurement capability gaps in your procurement team

  • Benchmark your team’s capability against a global standard and other divisions of your organisation

  • Prioritise actions to develop your team’s sustainable procurement capability

  • Develop your team’s sustainable procurement skills, systems, policies and processes

Approach

Step 1. Discover - Capability Diagnostic:

We understand your current capability across the core competency areas with a questionnaire and review of current policies, processes and systems.

Step 2. Design - Development Roadmap:

We benchmark your team’s current level of maturity against the ISO 20400 Sustainable Procurement framework. We then use this framework and our knowledge of ever-evolving best practices to identify gaps in capability and set improvement targets.

Step 3. Deliver - Capability Development:

We don’t stop with a roadmap. We deliver capability development initiatives to embed sustainable procurement excellence. Some examples are listed below;

  • Training for the Procurement team and the wider organisation

  • Co-authoring of policies and strategies

  • Engaging stakeholders align them with sustainability

  • Updating Supplier Codes of Conduct

  • Embedding sustainability within the procurement team’s personal objectives

  • Setting up KPIs and scorecards to track supplier sustainability performance

  • Sourcing digital platforms to support sustainable procurement action

  • Writing tender requirements and contract clauses for sustainability

The output is a prioritised, actionable implementation plan to develop your team’s sustainable procurement capability.

Embed sustainable procurement excellence into your organisation today

Contact Us

We build long-term partnerships with our clients that deliver ongoing sustainability improvements by embedding sustainable procurement excellence. If you would like to know more about how that might work for your organisation then please get in touch: