Navigating ambiguity: Essential skillsets for the modern workplace

The Future Procurement Leaders Network event is an interactive workshop series for those establishing their careers in procurement and supply chain. These events provide a unique opportunity to network and engage with your peers around key procurement topics. 

This session will be led by Anna Cassella-Hall, MCIPS, Associate Commercial Specialist for Border Force Procurement at Government Commercial Organisation. Anna graduated from Queen Mary, University of London in 2017 with a degree in History. She then joined the Civil Service Commercial Fast Stream, where she supported a number of complex outsourcing programmes in the MOJ and DWP before moving to the Home Office in 2019. Since working at the Home Office, specifically in the Migration and Borders category, she has been responsible for sourcing services during a number of critical incidents, including those to support some of the 15,000 people evacuated from Afghanistan in 2021.

Key discussion points will include the following:

• Skillsets required for working with ambiguity and a fast-paced politically-charged backdrop
• The importance of maintaining a network
• Delivering change within the frameworks of the Public Procurement Regulations 2015