SUSTAINABILITY
“ Ultimately , it ' s about getting people together across the value chain in procurement to make sure that everyone is singing from the same hymn sheet about how to make it easier to embed sustainability and responsibility into procurement ”
OLIVER HURREY , CHAIR , THE SPP
Transformation Director at GSK , Alexandra Tarmo , Head of Partnerships & Social Procurement at Unilever and Sonia Prey of the SPP team , but formerly of Liberty Global Director of Procurement Excellence , were there sharing their insights on how teams can use metrics to drive sustainability and responsibility .
During the meeting , everyone broke off into groups , which is when I skidded away , afraid I would have to answer for something . And so I ask Oliver about the groups ( stick with him , he gets there ).
" I have a Google doc of about 187 different sustainable procurement initiatives that exist in the world right now . It ' s an extraordinary number , across industries and across issues . The key difference of what we ' re doing here is empowering all of those initiatives , but not by helping companies or organisations as such . We ' re helping the procurement professionals . It ' s very much about helping individuals collectively .
" They need to be able to understand what best practice might be , but also to feel part of the community , part of a movement . It ' s
112 July 2021