Episode 31: Building a Procurement Community from his Sofa

Dave Jones is an MCIPS Qualified Procurement Professional working in the retail sector in the UK. We dived into so much in a short space of time with this episode, including the effect that COVID has had on the retail sector. The main focus of this episode was to discuss what was Procmeet which has now transformed into the bigger and better Proctopus (ProcMeet is the Procurement Meet up). Dave had a thought one night whilst sat on the sofa. This thought was about having a cuppa with some fellow procurement professionals and he asked his LinkedIn Network if they’d be up for it. They really were up for it.

In this episode we cover:

• Dave’s views on the impacts of Covid on Retail

• Changes in governance models 

• Impacts of Working From Home on Procurement Teams

• Where is Procurement Going

• What Procmeet is (this has now grown into Proctopus)

Connect with Dave here:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dohjones/

Proctopus/ProcMeet - https://www.proctopus.co.uk