Skills Assessment
Giving you invaluable information to strengthen your team

Our Skills Assessment provides an in-depth look at your employees’ procurement training needs and talents.
By assessing the gaps in your team’s knowledge, identifying the strengths and benchmarking your organisations against the best in class, we’ll help you to inform your people’s development.
Download our product sheet to explore the benefits our assessment will bring to your organisation.
Review
We’ll review your technical knowledge levels, identify your real strengths and any development needs.
Target
We’ll make sure you target your training spend in the right areas, making the best use of your budgets.
Measure
We’ll measure your skills and knowledge against our Global Standard for procurement and supply.
Identity Talent
Our assessment will help support your recruitment and succession planning.
Inform
We’ll help your employees progress their careers through personal development.
Benchmark
Benchmark your team against others in your sector worldwide.
Evaluate Impact
We’ll assess whether strengths have increased post training and the impact our assessment has had.
How does the CIPS Skills Assessment work?
- Online assessment
We’ll measure your team's procurement knowledge by using our online capability assessment.
- In-depth
We’ll carry out more in-depth probing to analyse an appropriate training and development starting point to bridge any knowledge gaps.
- Identify training needs
We’ll identify your team's training needs based on our Global Standard for procurement and supply.
- Personalised report
We’ll provide a report that highlights your team’s strengths as well as a structure for personal development plans.

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Interested?
If you're interested in learning more about how we can help enhance your teams' capability to deliver strategic and sustainable value throughout your whole organisation, simply follow the link below and fill out a few details. We'll then be in touch to let you know how CIPS can help your team.