“At larger traditional companies, there is a common theme in procurement that ‘I need a seat at the table, and I need to justify to you why I am in this room with you.’ But a startup is actually a breath of fresh air. There are not that many tables, so you are at the table, regardless of whether you like it or not.”- Liem Hua, Head of Procurement at Rippling
Building and scaling a procurement team in a high-growth startup can look very different from traditional corporate environments. Procurement has to adjust their approach to almost everything, from stakeholder management to strategy building and hiring to the very role they play in the business.
In this Art of Procurement episode, Philip Ideson speaks with Liem Hua, Head of Procurement at Rippling, about the differences between procurement’s role and scope at a startup or high growth company versus a large, traditional enterprise. Liem has held a number of different roles at startups and high-growth companies, but he has also worked for large corporations like Delta Airlines, and he understands the kind of code-switching procurement has to engage in depending on their environment.
In this episode, Philip and Liem discuss:
Links:
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700: From Practitioner to Entrepreneur: Mark Holyoake Interviews AOP Founder Philip Ideson
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698: Optimizing Procurement’s Source-to-Pay Strategy w/ Baber Farooq
697: Procurement 6 | May 17th, 2024
696: Dear Supplier… The Art of Giving RFP Response Feedback
695: Procurement 6 | May 10th, 2024
694: Removing the Internal Tension Between Cost and Sustainability w/ Alex Jennings
693: Procurement 6 | May 3rd, 2024
692: Fortune 500 Playbook: Procurement Leaders' Secrets to Orchestration Excellence w/ Elisabeth Schlag-Lawrence, Chris Vessey, Shachi Rai Gupta, and Lance Younger
691: Procurement 6 | April 26th, 2024
690: Overcoming Procurement's Fear of AI w/ Darshan Deshmukh
689: Procurement 6 | April 19th, 2024
688: Identifying Ambassadors for Procurement Transformation w/ Salvador Serra de Paz
687: Procurement 6 | April 12th, 2024
686: 5 Things Procurement Should Consider When Evaluating AI w/ Heather Murray
685: Procurement 6 | April 5th, 2024
684: The Procurement Job Market is Looking Up w/ Mark Holyoake
683: Procurement 6 | March 29th, 2024
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