CM GROUP
Karen Hodson , Chief Procurement Officer for the CM Group brings together a diverse group of email marketing platforms under a single umbrella
Karen Hodson Chief Procurement Officer
Karen Hodson is the Chief Procurement Officer for the CM Group . The company brings together a diverse group of email marketing platforms , including Emma , Campaign Monitor , Delivra , Liveclicker , Sailthru , Selligent and Vuture under a single umbrella . She has been with the Company since its start in 2017 , headquartered in Nashville , Tennessee .
Prior to her position with the CM Group she started off in software startups and worked her way up the procurement ladder . “ During a previous position I had done a great job on a contract and the CFO at the time said , do you like negotiating ? I said yes , and his response was great you ' re in charge of procurement . At the time I didn ’ t even know what procurement was , but that ’ s how my career journey started ,” explains Hodson .
“ The start of my journey involved figuring out what procurement was and what it meant for an organisation . My next task was establishing how I could make an impact and create centralised procurement at the company I was working with at the time . Once I had that worked out , I moved on to another company .”
Hodson joined an organisation with a longer history to again focus solely on procurement . This provided her with the opportunity to get a much better
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