Help wanted: Senior country buyer
Looking for a change of roles? Up for an exciting new challenge? The Maldives’ newly elected President, Mohamed Nasheed, has opened the door for a potential new procurement category: the country buyer.
The Maldives are poised to be one of the first countries submerged by rising seas and are looking to buy a new country. In the President’s words,
“We can do nothing to stop climate change on our own so we have to buy land elsewhere”
Could this be the first of many such roles? The Economist thinks so. They think that now may be the time to pick up a bargain and suggest that Iceland may be going cheap.
And who better than a procurement professional to lead the sourcing exercise. Anyone who thinks the creation of Israel had unresolved change management issues has never transitioned in a new ERP vendor.
