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The Culture and Behaviour of Successful Contract Management
Event summary
CIPFA Procurement Network invites you to attend the third and final event in the new three-part series of events, to support public bodies get to grips with contract management obligations under the Procurement Act 2023.
Date
30 April 2025
Starts: 09:30
Ends: 16:00
Location
online
Standard price
£245.00 excl VAT
Network Member Price
£125.00 excl VAT
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About this event
In this event, we will explore organisational culture and behaviours and how this impacts contract management. Contract management plays a crucial role in successful supplier relationships. The behaviours of contract managers are a key aspect of effective contract management, and this is directly driven by organisational culture.
This new series of one-day webinars have been specially developed to provide an in-depth and practical insight into the theory and application of what organisations need to do as part of post award contract management. The series will be delivered over three days, each covering a distinct area, as follows:
Day 1: When Contract Management met the Procurement Act 2023 (Available for Tailored Dates)
Day 2: The Contract Management Best Practice Framework of Activities, Processes and Controls
(Available for Tailored Dates).
Day 3: The culture and behaviour of successful contract management (30 April 2025)
You are welcome to attend an individual or the full series of events. The events can also be tailored for your authority.
Who should attend?
This series of events is designed for public sector contract managers and those involved in managing suppliers. It is particularly aimed at new entrants to the profession, as well as experienced practitioners who need to refresh their knowledge. It will also support those whose role is reliant on successful contract management including procurement staff or project managers.
How will you benefit from attending?
The event will offer you an opportunity to understand:
- Understand how organisational culture plays a critical role in the effectiveness of contract management.
- How culture can support transparent negotiations, effective terms, and adherence to legal and regulatory requirements.
- Why open dialogue and teamwork in key to contract management
- How you can create a ‘Risk-Aware Culture' through Contract management.
- Practical steps to ensure common understanding and shared commitments.
CPD hours
This event carries 5.5 CPD hours.
Topics
- Commercialisation
- / Education finance and academies
- / Efficiency
- / Local government
- / Transformation
- / Value for money
Speaker - Mohamed Hans, Procurement Advisor, CIPFA Procurement and Commissioning Network (CPCN)
Mohamed joined CIPFA in 2004, after working as a senior commercial solicitor for a number of West Yorkshire local authorities. He is an expert on the European Public Procurement Rules, and has written extensively on this topic. He has also developed widely-used practitioner toolkits. He is also invited to speak at conferences (UK and abroad) and is often the first point of contact for practitioners understanding complex procurement issues. He manages the CIPFA Procurement and Commissioning Network, which has nearly 100 member authorities.
Email: mohamed.hans@cipfa.org
Tel: 07717 345188.
Speaker - Walter Akers
Walter specialises in advising enterprises on contract risk and procurement and maximising value from complex commercial arrangements. He has a track record of successfully delivering evidence-based improvement, cost savings and performance recovery on large complex contractual arrangements.
Walter has worked at board level with some of the world’s leading multinational companies, across a number of industries, as well as UK central government departments and local authorities. He has expertise in helping clients at all phases of the contract life cycle, both pre and post award, from business case assessment, through post award transition, contract deployment, and contract management; to contract close and exit.