ESG training built for procurement teams.
Procurement usually finds out it's carrying ESG risk after the fact: a contract renewal that becomes a line in a sustainability report, a supplier questionnaire nobody budgeted time for, a data request with no clear owner. This learning program teaches your team to see that exposure before a contract is signed, not after it.
"The procurement team that signs the contract is rarely the team that has to explain it in the sustainability report."
Standard renewal paperwork routinely creates ESG exposure nobody flagged at the time, which is exactly why sustainable procurement now has its own ISO standard.
Practical ESG skills for the contracts procurement already handles.
Not a sustainability primer. Built around the contract decisions procurement is already making.
Spotting exposure before signature
How to read a contract or tender for ESG and sustainability exposure before it's committed to, not after.
Evidence that holds up
Writing supplier and contractor evidence clauses that survive an assurance review, not just a file audit.
Sustainable procurement in practice
Turning ISO 20400 principles into decisions your buyers make every day.
Supply-chain data requests
What to do when an emissions or supply-chain data request lands on your desk, and whose job it actually is.
Before you start.
No. Reading contracts and managing suppliers stays procurement's job. This adds the judgment to catch ESG exposure inside that same work, not a separate specialism.
No. It teaches your team to recognise ESG and sustainability exposure early enough to raise it. Legal and compliance review still happens exactly as it normally would.
Awareness training tends to start with the regulation and hope people connect it to their job. This one starts with the contract on your desk: renewals, supplier selection, evidence requests. Then it works back to the standard from there.
Procurement managers, category leads, and buyers responsible for contracts and supplier relationships, at organisations building out their ESG capability.
Give procurement the skills to catch exposure before a contract is signed.
Part of Cascade's self-paced training platform, built department by department.