Sometimes the team is capable and the gap is a single hard job: a contract that needs a proper read before signing, a negotiation with a supplier that holds most of the power, or a category that has never had a strategy. This is senior specialist input, scoped to that task, without adding a permanent role.
Amanda Branley FCIPS has a buyer-side contract review and negotiation track record built over senior leadership roles in both the public and private sectors, including Chief Procurement Officer at a major Western Australian government agency. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply.