Hosted by Donna Bowden & Laura Sellers · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 51 episodes
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Honest conversations and fresh perspectives to help procurement professionals, wherever you are in your career. Navigate change, grow with confidence and shape a career on your terms. Co-hosted by Donna Bowden (Procurement Career Coach, Founder of Narrate Your Career) and Laura Sellers (Executive & Leadership Coach, Founder of Coaching for Procurement) who bring a combined 20+ years of supporting procurement growth
Donna Bowden & Laura Sellers hosts Procurement Pivots®, a business show with 51 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail Internal progression in procurement doesn’t happen by default. You can be delivering, experienced and performing well in your role, and still find that the next opportunity doesn’t come. In this episode
Send us Fan Mail We’ve reached our 50th episode of Procurement Pivots, and rather than looking back, we wanted to focus on what we’re consistently seeing across the procurement profession right now. There is a gap. A gap
Send us Fan Mail In procurement careers, your ability to give feedback to teams and stakeholders directly impacts performance, influence and progression. Yet it’s one of the most avoided leadership skills. Whether it’s n
Send us Fan Mail Do you actually know where you stand in your procurement career? Or are you making assumptions? At senior level, feedback often becomes limited, filtered or disappears altogether. And yet, this is exactl
Send us Fan Mail “Underperforming team.” It’s a label that gets used quickly in procurement. But what if it’s not the full picture? In today’s market, procurement teams are under more pressure than ever. Expectations are
Send us Fan Mail “Tell me about yourself.” It sounds simple. But in reality, it’s one of the most important and most underutilised questions in your procurement career. It shows up everywhere: Interviews. Stakeholder mee
Send us Fan Mail Procurement career growth often feels uncomfortable. As procurement careers evolve, many professionals are being asked to step into greater visibility, leadership and influence. You may want more impact,
Send us Fan Mail Procurement careers are evolving at pace. The remit is expanding. Expectations are rising. Pressure is increasing. Yet in many organisations, learning and development support has reduced, shifted or beco
Send us Fan Mail Communication sits at the heart of every procurement career. You can be technically strong, commercially capable and consistently deliver results. But if your communication does not land, your influence,
Send us Fan Mail For many procurement professionals, the word networking triggers discomfort. Awkward. Inauthentic. Contrived. Embarrassing. And yet, relationship-driven opportunities remain one of the most powerful driv
Send us Fan Mail In today’s procurement career market, visibility is no longer optional. Yet many procurement professionals remain hesitant, quiet or completely invisible on LinkedIn. This episode tackles the uncomfortab
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Procurement Pivots, we explore a topic that often feels uncomfortable but quietly shapes careers more than performance alone: internal networking. Many procurement professionals associ
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Procurement Pivots, we unpack one of the most talked-about transitions in the profession: the move from operational to strategic procurement. We hear it everywhere. Procurement must be
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Procurement Pivots, we explore why owning your strengths is not simply a development exercise and how procurement professionals can use their strengths to accelerate their careers. Thi
Send us Fan Mail Navigating Restructure in Procurement Series – Part 4 In this final episode of our four-part series on navigating restructure in procurement, we turn our attention to the team perspective. We have explor
Send us Fan Mail Navigating Restructure in Procurement Series – Part 3 In this third episode of our four-part series on navigating restructures in procurement, we shift the lens to the procurement leader. Leading a team
Send us Fan Mail Navigating Restructure in Procurement Series – Part 2 In Part 2 of our series on navigating restructure in procurement, Donna and Laura shift the focus to those who remain in the organisation after chang
Send us Fan Mail Navigating Restructure in Procurement – Series Part 1 In this new four part series, we explore the realities of navigating restructure in today’s procurement landscape. And in this first episode, we expl
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Laura takes us behind the scenes of the team coaching work she has been delivering across procurement functions in the UK and internationally. While most leaders approach her with a spec
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Donna and Laura revisit one of the most requested topics on the podcast: positioning, with a dedicated focus on external career moves. With the market shifting again and early signs of i
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