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Our awards are all about you, our community, and your amazing achievements in contract management, contract design, and innovation.

Awards are a huge part of how we recognize opportunities to improve, achieve, and revisit our current expectations and goals to better support our members around the world.

This is your time to shine.

World Commerce & Contracting Innovation & Excellence Awards

We understand the importance of recognizing individuals and organizations that are achieving the highest standards in the field of commercial and contract management.

Let’s celebrate our global innovation and success stories together!

Deadline for submissions was 30 October 2020. Entries are now CLOSED.

Award categories

Operational Improvement Award

For initiatives that have delivered significant business value through an improved commercial or contracting process or practices.

Strategic Direction Award

For initiatives that have raised the strategic profile and contribution of the commercial or contracting process or function.

Outstanding Service Provider Award

For consultants, service or application providers who have led or enabled high-value initiatives at client organizations.

Delivering Social and Economic Benefit Award

For initiatives that deliver meaningful change and impact, fulfilling the vision of World Commerce & Contracting.

For our individual practitioners who have shown outstanding leadership or diligence; championing openness, cooperation, trust, honesty, commitment and mutual understanding in commercial and contract management. You must be nominated for this award. You cannot self-nominate.

Innovation in Crisis Award 

Recognizing individuals and teams that have shown true creativity and adaptability in responding to a crisis, particularly in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.

WorldCC CEO Future 2025 Award – Realising the Unimaginable

Recognizing individuals and teams who challenge conventional thinking and provide inspiring direction.

WorldCC and Elevate Award for Inclusion and Diversity 

Recognizing organizations or individuals who have demonstrated commitment to diversity and inclusion; improving the workplace culture, and delivering meaningful change and business benefits.

WorldCC and Open Contracting Partnership Award for ‘Open Contracting Impact’ 

Recognizing a public sector organization that has embraced open contracting principles, and is demonstrating the positive impacts of transparency. 

WorldCC and State of Flux Award for Excellence in Supplier Relationship Management

Recognizing organizations that have successfully implemented a Supplier Relationship Management program across their teams and business.

Leaders of the Virtual Future Program

Our 2020 winning team of under 30 year old contract and commercial managers was our Europe team! They demonstrate how we can work to ensure our virtual trading relationships are sustainable and deliver social and economic benefit.

Innovators of the Future Program

Following the success of our Leaders of the Future Programs, we have launched our Innovators initiative for young rising stars.

BAE Systems has participated in the World Commerce & Contracting (formerly IACCM) Leaders of the Future initiative since its inception. It provides a great platform to expose our talent to a range of inspiring, exciting and thought provoking opportunities and individuals. Our participants acknowledge the experience as a unique and valuable development opportunity and have created new networks that continue to be sustained. I am thrilled that World Commerce & Contracting are able to offer this initiative in our new, virtual environment.

Jacquie Millward, Head of Commercial, Head Office and Maritime & Land
The Leaders of the Future Program is a great initiative from the World Commerce & Contracting (formally IACCM) which allows the new generation of Commercial & Contract managers to mingle with more experienced professionals, and to be exposed to the most innovative trends and best practices shared in the industry. All of our young leaders who had an opportunity to participate to the program came back thrilled, energized and with a network of other young CCM professionals with whom they stay in contact. This program is a source of inspiration for our young colleagues and it constitutes an opportunity for us to reward our best talent.

Isabelle Roux-Chenu, Group Commercial and Contract Management, Senior Advisor to the Group Chairman and CEO, Capgemini
The Young Leaders program has been a key element in our ability to encourage and grow young talent in the commercial community. We use it as a focus for our internal selection competition which uses the World Commerce and Contracting (formerly IACCM) Theme within a business improvement project given to the candidates. The individual benefits from interaction with the wider commercial community, while the business benefits from new ideas and continuous improvement. This year being virtual we have been able to commit two candidates to the program. We recommend the program to all businesses to encourage growth and talent.

Ian Wakeling, UK Commercial & Trade Compliance Director, Lockheed Martin UK
Great progress being made and along with the Leaders of the Future program continues to position IACCM for greater growth and influence ahead – and that speaks to strong leadership and a strong team. Well done!

Roderick Wade, MBA, Vice President, Contract Management, MedImpact