Purchasing Manager Review

I am purchasing manager, this entails relationship management with our suppliers. I will build partnerships, negotiate contracts, problem solve. On a daily basis I will be providing training, delegating to our support team, negotiating internally with our stakeholders as well as visiting suppliers and discussing opportunities and potential road blocks to success.

I took this course to round out my knowledge of self and business management. This course has allowed me to gain a recognised qualification adding to the years of experience I have in the travel and tourism industry. It has helped me as a person develop new strategies and skills in doing my role but to enable me also to be more confident in discussing with stakeholder my views and strategies.

I like how it is not exam focussed but that more is based on coursework and proving through may day to day work that I have the skills and abilities to complete the course. This has not just challenged me but the business to give me more opportunity and develop me for further positions within the business.

It is relative well organised with the online PIVOT course handler you have a starting point for each module. It does not all line up as well as I would like and at times due to the initiation there has been challenges between the business and the course provider in deciding how best to run the course.

When requested I receive support from my manager and director. As a remote employee I maybe have a different experience than others. I would have like more of a forum through online channels to discuss the course and gain ideas. But the business believes in the course all the way to the managing director which is important.

My course provider has been good providing a mentor. I would have liked it more regularily and probably would recommend a service level agreement between the student and the mentor to discuss what the expectations are so it is clear to both sides what is expected from each person and how it will be achieved.

It really has returned me to the theory of management of people self and the business. Allowing me to go back and form my own ideas and not those that have been given to me by previous managers. By opening this world of thinking it should make me a better manager and a stronger leader in future.

I am a remote worker so this is unfair question upon me. Most of our employees work either in Luton or Surbiton where I am sure there is a lot going on. But we have a smaller team in the Austrian satalite office where we do arrange activities but not on the same scale as a central office.

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TUI offers many options it is a forward thinking business which believes in developing all it employees and providing opportunity. With its always forward looking view you have a feeling of success or that success is possible even in challenging times. The size and scale of the business offer opportunities world wide in many different ways.

Know who you are and what you want and work openly and honestly with your managers to achieve this. The more open I have become since joining TUI has enabled me to be more authentic and get more out of my working life than a paycheck, I have a career and self progression.