Nicolas Walden
Nicolas Walden
TITLE : SENIOR DIRECTOR , PROCUREMENT EXECUTIVE ADVISORY MEMBERSHIP PROGRAMMES and we need great people , and it ’ s that last part that I think many organisations neglect , and don ’ t invest enough time and energy into . There is this massive gap , the people aspect , new roles , new skills , new expertise , and new ways of working that I think too often gets missed .”
But will this be at the top of procurement ’ s agenda for 2022 and beyond ? “ It should be ,” says Walden , “ but it ’ s definitely not the top priority . The top priorities for procurement will still be cost savings particularly in today ’ s environment
My name is Nicolas Walden , I ' m a Senior Director at the Hackett Group . I lead one of our service lines , what we call our procurement executive advisory membership programmes . I ' ve been with Hackett Group for 14 years now , but I actually started my career in finance , then moved over to procurement . At Hackett Group I work solely with the leadership team . Utilising our research , our world-class performance insights to work with those leadership teams to de-risk and accelerate their transformation plans towards worldclass performance . We typically work with large and multinational procurement teams .
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