Purchasing Managers Working to Gain Favor with Upper Management

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Nick Brazier, Chief Procurement Officer at the corporate investment bank BNP Paribas talks some of the challenges he faced and what he did to suprass them. One of the greatest challenges he faced was gaining board-level buy-in for new strategies. When the focus is on profit often times strategies that would have long-term savings are harder to get upper level management on board because it affects profits today. See what Mr. Brazier did in his situation and consider how you can do something similar when trying to win favor with upper management.