THE PROCUREMENT INTERVIEW Upskilling talent for a future-ready organisation When it comes to building a futureready procurement organisation, Julian stresses that it“ starts with our people”.
He adds:“ We are investing heavily in talent by upskilling teams in data literacy, AI fluency and digital tools through targeted training and learning platforms. At the same time, we are recruiting talent with strong analytical and digital capabilities.
“ We believe in collaborative learning; for digital skills we have a Citizen Developer programme; these are non-IT employees who can create digital applications or workflows using low code platforms.
“ We have very experienced category and supplier management leaders who teach others, for example, worldclass category strategy and negotiation techniques. We have a programme called‘ Together We Learn’ where best practices and learnings are openly shared across our over 1,000 procurement professionals. We invest heavily in educating our teams in business acumen, as good procurement performance requires a great understanding of our products and the different business sectors where J & J operates”.
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