TOP TEN
WOMEN
IN PROCUREMENT
It ’ s an outdated stereotype that women love to shop . These Top 100 women in procurement take that idea and run straight through the glass ceiling with it
WRITTEN BY : HELEN SYDNEY ADAMS
T here are many valiant efforts to encourage women and girls to consider careers in STEM , but another genderimbalanced industry , procurement , is often overlooked .
Working in procurement involves researching products or services for a business from an independent party ( not to be confused with purchasing , which is facilitating the payments ).
Yet in a report by the consulting firm Oliver Wyman , Women in procurement : Gender parity is a key to better performance , results showed that out of the Chief Procurement Officers questioned , 60 % agree that there has been an increase in the number of women in procurement over the past three years .
From Aboriginal networks to Unilever , here are our top 10 women in procurement from across the globe … procurementmag . com 111