MRA IN THE NEWS

MRA PARTICIPATES IN ISM CHICAGO’S PROCUREMENT SKILLSET WORKSHOP

MRA’s Naseem Malik and Nick Lazzara were key contributors in recent virtual workshop hosted by ISM Chicago’s Emerging Leaders group where industry executives shared insights on current market trends, optimizing your personal brand, and other relevant skills to help procurement players thrive in the ever-changing procurement landscape.
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ISM-Chicago Risk Management Event ft. MRA’s Nick Lazzara

ISM-Chicago’s Emerging Leaders group recently launched a three-part webinar series titled: “Risk Management and its Impacts on Procurement”. Registration gets you access to all three parts of the event, which is on a topic that couldn’t be more relevant in today’s COVID landscape! Nick Lazzara, who serves on the Emerging Leaders committee, helped put together…
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MRA on Current Procurement Talent Trends for Spend Matters

Nick Lazzara was recently featured on Spend Matters, a leading procurement-focused website, with part two (access part one here) of an article updating us on procurement talent trends over the past few months during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thankfully, he notes, the procurement talent market has picked back up! He also highlights other prominent findings, including…
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MRA participates in GWPP Career Management Workshop

Our Managing Partner, Naseem Malik, had the good fortune of participating in a career management workshop hosted by Global Women Procurement Professionals earlier this month.  It was an excellent forum with a myriad of views coming from the practitioner side along with expertise provided on enhancing your brand and sharpening your skills to stay competitive…
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MRA Co-Hosts CPO Roundtable

Last month MRA Global, along with Kepler Consulting, hosted a private CPO Roundtable session with 4 Procurement leaders from varied backgrounds – discrete manufacturing, medical device manufacturing, banking and CPG/retail background. Enlightening discussion which focused on the following four topics of interest to the CPO’s: People, Supply, Demand, and Cash.
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ISM Salary Survey 2020 Features Input by MRA

Institute for Supply Management‘s 2020 Salary Survey is out and contains some great data and insight on how this talent driven market will continue to evolve for the supply management function. MRA’s Naseem Malik provides compensation input on market and practitioner dynamics.
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MRA contributes to Spend Matters

MRA’s Nick Lazzara was tapped to write an article for Spend Matters, an industry-leading procurement website. The article focused on trends in procurement talent during the COVID-19 pandemic, and what skillsets procurement employers will focus on moving forward.
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MRA contributes to recent Inside Supply Management article

MRA’s Naseem Malik shares some insight on how the Procurement function is leveraging their skills and experience to climb the ranks of corporate America in this piece from the latest edition of Inside Supply Management, an Institute for Supply Management publication.
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Naseem Malik attends 2018 ISM-CLC

2018 ISM Conference Leadership Committee (CLC) Fall meeting was hosted by MRA Global Sourcing at their Schaumburg, IL offices.  The team of Procurement leaders and ISM staff got together to finalize the upcoming meeting tracks and presentation descriptions for the upcoming Annual ISM Conference that was hosted in Houston in April 2019.
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MRA Global Contributes to an Outstanding ISM2018

MRA Global Sourcing recently attended yet another successful ISM Annual Conference last week in Nashville, TN!  The four-day conference had a remarkable turnout of Procurement professionals who gained meaningful industry insights from the impressive keynote speakers, presentations and panel discussions. As a member of the ISM2018 Conference Leadership Committee, Naseem Malik, Managing Partner at MRA,…
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