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JOIN THE GSA-UK COUNCIL AND HELP STEER THE INDUSTRY FORWARD

In some cases we are looking to fill completely new roles, in others we are looking for Council members to join other Council members on pre-existing programmes.

The positions available are as follows:

Sourcing Strategist. This role will be responsible for reviewing how the strategic sourcing function within an organisation is evolving and how the role of the strategic sourcing professional now transcends the business, finance, operations, technology and procurement to deliver value add through sourcing to the business.                                                 

Attracting and Upskilling Talent Ambassador. This role looks at the competences and capabilities of the strategic sourcing professional – mapped on both the buy and delivery sides – and also looks at how we can attract more people to start careers in strategic sourcing. This role also governs the Emergent Talent Forum.                       

Future of Work Evangelist. The workplace is changing. Jobs are changing. Certain roles are being displaced by techs. This role looks at how these changes are impacting our industry and what we need to do to ensure ethical behaviours, strong responsibility and delivering working environments fit for the future. Think Wellness. Think gig economy, among others.               

CX Champion. Business today is all about CX and UX. This role will cover off the importance of customer-centricity across the sourcing landscape, review how the customer service industry is changing thanks to a multitude of new techs, including CCaaS, but also look at the future of the profession.                                                          

Digital Envoy. Digital transformation is an over-played term. One person’s digital transformation is another person’s continuous improvement. This role is to look at all things digital – for both the GSA itself, as well as the membership community.  

New Technologies Champion. Business services are enabled by new technologies and impacted by emerging techs all the time. This role looks at the emerging techs that a sourcing professional needs to be aware of and guides them as to how to bring these techs into a sourcing arrangement at any time of its lifespan. This covers automation, AI, IoT, cloud, blockchain, etc.                                 

Women in Sourcing Lead. Gender equality is everyone’s issue. This role looks at championing the role and importance of women in sourcing, ensuring equality in conditions and pay and sharing stories to empower and inspire women to achieve the next level in their careers.                             

Inclusion and Diversity Champion. Inclusion and diversity is about much more than gender equality. This role looks at matters ranging from social diversity through LGBTQ+, to promote complete fairness and equality in the global sourcing industry.                        

Legal Ace. Contracting models are evolving as the industry changes. This role keeps an eye on best practice today as well as the art of the possible for contracting tomorrow. This will oversee GSA Standard terms and subjects ranging from the blockchain contract through relational contracting.

Sustainability Representative. Sustainability is essential in sourcing, be that the sustainability of goods and services in the supply chain, our impact on the environment or the treatment and wellbeing of employees at any point within the supply chain. This role will look at matters of ethics, the Modern Slavery Act, the advent of ESG and champion the positive impact a sustainable approach can have on business.                                                   

Start-ups Champion. Start-ups and SMEs are the lifeblood of UK plc and essential within the sourcing eco-system. We need to bring more start-ups into the GSA-fold and promote best practice in how all members better partner with start-ups by better understanding their needs. This role will be building the community, but also promoting the industry code of conduct for dealing with start-ups.

Public Affairs Professional. Outsourcing always gets negative press – and that is too often around failed Government projects. The Public Affairs role will look at all matters related to communicating with Government about the strategic sourcing industry, and promoting programmes of change the industry wants/needs – to ensure the industry is better represented and supported by Government. It will also cover key areas of changing compliance.

Public sector Representative. This role will represent the opportunities and challenges faced by the public sector (local and central Government), vis a vis strategic sourcing - whether that be any aspect of best practice, new regulations or specific new techs.

Open Programmes.       

The “open programmes position” were introduced to ensure the GSA UK is driving initiatives that the membership values.  The nomination should outline the programme of work you propose the GSA delivers together with yourself, set out over 400 words under the following headings:

  •  Issue/s or challenge/s you are looking to address
  •  Objectives
  •  Proposed approach to address challenge /suggested activities
  •  Target results
                             

Please see Overview to GSA UK Council document.      


How to run for the Council

Each candidate must be working for a corporate member of the GSA UK in good standing when the nominations close and not have acted against the interests of the GSA UK.

If you wish to run for any one of these positions you must fill in your nomination form with a paragraph on “Why you?” and your biography. The biographies received will accompany the ballots sent out by the GSA UK. Please also send a photo to admin@gsa-uk.com to make the Council more personable.


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