Procuring sustainable futures - the winners & the losers

This is the first event in Liverpool City Centre this year and we have asked two fantastic speakers to explore and challenge our thinking on responsible procurement.

Aims: - To challenge the way we see the outcomes from Procurement, who are the winners and losers? To be able to change our thinking and approach to benefit all.

To follow - Networking event with tapas at Lunya, 55 Hanover Street, Liverpool L1 3DN 

If you have any queries please contact branchevents@cips.org

EVENT VENUE:

Hilton hotel, Hilton Liverpool City Centre, Albert Suite 3, 3 Thomas Steers Way, Liverpool, L1 8LW

Tea, coffee, biscuits at the Hilton with further networking and tapas after at Lunya Hanover Street

EVENT SPEAKER

Professor Jo Meehan 

Professor of Responsible Procurement

University of Liverpool

Professor Jo Meehan is a Professor of Responsible Procurement and the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Business at the University of Liverpool’s Management School. Jo’s research centres on modern slavery in supply chains, social value in public procurement, and the role of power in commercial relationships. She works closely with government bodies providing evidence to support responsible procurement legislation, guidance, and standards.  Her work explores commercial practices that allow social inequalities and environmental harm to persist, and crucially, what might be done to enable systemic change. Her work has won numerous international awards, and has been referenced by the World Bank, the UN, the WHO, the UK Government, CIPS, and numerous corporate organisations. Prior to joining academia, Jo had extensive procurement experience in the private sector working for a global blue-chip company.

Professor David Loseby

Professor of Research Impact in Supply Chain Management 

Leeds University Business School 

David has over 30 years’ experience at senior executive/director level driving value and change through procurement and organisational transformation. More recently working as a thought leader in Procurement & Supply Chain advising organisations, digital leaders (Gartner magic quadrant) and the Big 4 consultancies on all aspects of change/transformation, ESG, CSR, Social Value, Digital, TPRM/Supply chain resilience & collaboration models and the evolving and dynamic legislation landscape.

David’s varied background enables him to draw on not only his various global experiences, sector diversity and responsibilities within many Public Bodies as well as FTSE 100 companies but also the experience gained in the Construction and Property sectors at the beginning of his career. He also understands what it takes to deliver sustainable bottom line results in the optimum time frame.

David regards himself as a Pracademic and has an ongoing research portfolio centred on his advisory areas (Behavioural Science, Collaboration, Digital Transformation, ESG, Procurement, Supply Chain and Sustainability). Further, his academic involvement extends to the roles of: Editor in Chief for the JoPP, JRPC & HR. Top50 thought leader in Procurement & Supply Chain Management, CSR/ESG & Change & Transformation (Applied Behavioural Science). He was previously the Group CPO for Rolls Royce (1k staff), managing the impact of Covid-19 & a significant portfolio of digital transformations.

David is currently a visiting scholar at UEA - Norwich Business School (Social Sciences Faculty) delivering Executive MBA & MSc courses and a PhD in Behavioural Science & Applied Cognitive Psychology: Behavioural Procurement. Course assessor and delivery of MSc/Executive MBA programmes at Leeds University Business school. MBA/DBA Advisory Board University of Nottingham (Tri Campus) & exec MBA design & delivery.