It’s a myth that advancing in procurement and consulting takes years of “paying your dues.” That’s only if you follow the traditional training path – slow, tedious, and focused on theory.
Our revolutionary community and hands-on approach to capability development builds skills and confidence at lightspeed. Unleash your potential!
The most effective way to learn is through hands-on experience and mentorship. The best professional education programs dedicate just 10% of training to lecture and study.
So why is most procurement training nothing but classroom instruction?You end up with a binder of pretty slides and no understanding of how to apply what you’ve learned.
Worse, these courses are based on decades-old models that don’t address the 21st century procurement & industry challenges.We’ve created a 90% hands-on procurement career accelerator that teaches you to solve real-world problems in the industry today.
No one becomes a superhero by watching a course module. Procurement Superheroes is a comprehensive career development program built on the 4Cs.
An experienced mentor helps you identify and break through obstacles holding back your procurement career. We’ll coach you through choosing your industry niche, problem solving, nailing the interview, and more.
Learn to play the game of career advancement. Crack the code to building valuable relationships and establishing a powerful reputation that puts you on the short list for promotions.
Learn alongside other ambitious procurement professionals. Outside the competitive environment of the workplace, small groups of peers brainstorm innovative solutions under the guidance of an expert mentor.
Escape limiting procurement roles. Your mentor will help you plan your career path, unlock the skills you need to advance, and wow interviewers.
The Procurement Superheroes community is a safe place to get answers to the questions you don’t feel comfortable asking at work.
Build relationships now with the smart, ambitious professionals who will lead the industry in a few short years.
Leverage the power of a group mind to brainstorm effective solutions to your trickiest work problems.
Learn from the successes, failures, and cautionary tales of your community, and save yourself the pain of trial-and-error.
You can apply your Procurement Superheroes training before you’ve finished a single course. Get unstuck and maximise the value of the projects you’re working on today.
Our experts aren’t professors or semi-retired pros who haven’t worked in the industry for years. They are working consultants at the top of their field.
Drawing inspiration from fields like psychology, business, and communication, you’ll bring a uniquely holistic viewpoint to problems, enabling innovative, outside-the-box solutions.
Learn how to deal with and embrace ambiguity. Build confidence and reduce your dependence on your manager.
Quickly master proven frameworks, strategies, and tactics that take years to learn on the job. We are constantly developing courses to address the situations facing procurement professionals today and the skills you need to solve them.
Junior people are often shut out of procurement decisions in their organisation, giving them no way to develop new skills. We pull back the curtain so you can dig into the skills you want to learn in your own time.
Drawing inspiration from fields like psychology, business, and communication, you’ll bring a uniquely holistic viewpoint to problems, enabling innovative, outside-the-box solutions.
Self-paced courses are supplemented with multimedia experiences like guest speakers, skill drills, and live case study breakdowns. Whatever kind of learner you are, we have content for you.
In these fun competitive events, you’ll quickly learn a procurement skill and put it into practice.
Learn to develop and execute a procurement strategy by working with a team on a real-worldcase study.
Walk through a step-by-step framework to build and execute a million-dollar procurement strategy in just 7 days.
The faster you can hit goals, the faster you get promoted. Practice building KPIs and fast-tracking their execution.
Fortnightly open house for job seekers to get resume reviews, interview tips, and feedback on their job search challenges.
Free group problem-solving session. Come in to get clarity on your challenges and brainstorm solutions.
Build the procurement career you want – on your terms. The Procurement Superheroes career accelerator provides the knowledge you need to confidently solve complex problems and drive real value for your organisation.
Procurement Superheroes is constantly evolving to meet the needs and interests of our members. These are a few of the topics we’ve tackled so far.
Here are real results from Procurement Superheroes:
A business unit-focused procurement specialist was promoted to a category manager with responsibilities across the Asia Pacific region – a role that came with a 40% raise
A rookie team member wowed their managers by delivering a 15% cost reduction on a project
With the skills they were learning in this program, a member completed their project in half the allocated time
Join on a monthly, quarterly, or annual basis. Scale your membership up or down at any time.
Procurement leaders are always short on time. To develop their junior team members, they rely on courses and seminars – expensive training that usually has zero ROI.
Procurement Superheroes takes a radically more effective approach.
Invest in a program that delivers real value to your team and your organisation – now and for years to come.
Ashokk Menon has been solving complex procurement puzzles for more than 25 years. He has deep procurement and supply chain experience in industry working across brands like Cadbury Schweppes, Mondelez APAC, Pact Group, Redington.
As a consultant he has worked with firms like Infosys Portland, Kearney and BCG to help their clients improve efficiencies, improve profitability and transform their capabilities.
Since the start of his career, Ashokk has managed more than 130 projects and addressed more than $20 billion in spend and now helps small and mid cap firms unlock the power of strategic procurement.
Ashokk takes a unique, blended approach to problem solving that includes design thinking (aiming to understand problems and explore creative solutions), structured thinking (mapping out complex problems through inductive and deductive reasoning), and jugaad, a Hindi word that, loosely translated, means getting the job done in a flexible, intelligent, low-cost way.
Procurement Superheroes is unlike any training program out there. Our members are developing the procurement knowledge and personal skills to build careers on their terms.
Will you keep figuring things out as you go, pushing your way ahead through trial and error?Or will you join us to accelerate your knowledge and become the most valuable person in the room?
