A message from our founder by Ray Vaughan

I have run a small commercial advisory consultancy for ten years specialising in technology procurements and disputes.

Historically we’ve relied on seasoned professionals working as contractors through Lifecycle Sourcing, but it’s proving increasingly more difficult to get the right capability at the right price point, and leave a lasting capability with the client.

Whilst considering my options, a friend of mine, Tony Lysak, had been very successful in building an Academy model in the software development area, and it seemed a great opportunity to partner with him and see what we could do in the procurement and supply chain space with a similar model.

Leveraging the excellent training packages of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) we embarked in January 2021 on our first round of graduate hiring into Lifecycle Academy and ran a 12-week bootcamp from mid-March 2021.

We now have six Junior Procurement Consultants (JPC’s) on client assignments and are excited to start our next round of recruitment very soon, so watch this space.