Let's Talk Procurement
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Let's Talk Procurement
S2. E26. What is the Dream Procurement Job?
What does your dream procurement job look like? That's the question at the heart of this revealing episode where we open up about our ideal roles in the procurement world.
The episode takes an unexpected personal turn with the announcement of big personal news from Luke1!
For one host, the perfect procurement position combines passion with profession. His vision represents the ultimate blend of personal interest and professional expertise, where procurement becomes more than just a job.
Our other Luke paints a different picture of procurement perfection: a role balanced with stakeholder engagement, diverse categories and opportunities for international travel to supplier sites.
Tune in to find out what our ideal roles would be an get an insight into our personalities!
We wrap up by contemplating what might constitute procurement career nightmares (if you are a pencil procurement specialists get in touch).
We invite you to share what your dream procurement role looks like. Whether you're aiming for specialized category expertise, strategic leadership, or the perfect work-life balance, we'd love to hear your procurement aspirations.
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Cya Later
The following clip is from an episode that we had to throw in the bin mainly because it would have involved us getting cancelled, but it explains a heartwarming story which is then referenced later. So that part is taken from a previous episode and put at the start of this episode. So I hope it makes sense enjoy this heartwarming story and then enjoy the episode. See you in a bit no, um.
Speaker 2:So I've got a bit of news. I am basically going to be yeah, basically, yeah, bringing a kid into the world, yeah, that's what I was going to say.
Speaker 1:So, not me personally, but my wife, um luke 13 is yeah, yeah, so luke 13 is on the way um, or whatever you want to call him.
Speaker 2:Either way, I don't know if it's a boy or girl, but it's going to be luke either way. Um, and I thought what better way to tell you as one of my uh, you know, one of my good mates, I thought what better way to tell you than live on the pod. You're lying, no legit. Um, let's see if I can get a picture up. Um, yeah, it's terrifying. Um, and I've already been told by the nurse that it's got.
Speaker 1:It's got long legs and big feet, just like me you genuinely showed a, a scan of a, of a child, a baby, a fetus yeah, 100%.
Speaker 2:We're at 20 20 weeks now, so still it's a long way to go. I think that's the halfway mark. How long does uh?
Speaker 1:does? Does making a wait? I was about to. I was about to phrase that really badly there. How long does does it take to build a child?
Speaker 2:I think it's 40 weeks, yeah, roughly 40 weeks. So we're just over the halfway line. Um had the two kind of important scans and stuff like that. So it is terrifying, um, congratulations, man, thank you. Yeah, I managed to procure myself a spawn. So, um, yeah, we'll see. Obviously, fingers crossed, everything, everything goes smooth and it's all good health. But, um, I thought, yeah, what better way to tell you than live on the pod? You know you share some of your, your scary moments, live on the pod. So I thought I could reciprocate. Um, but, yeah, the name is going to be luke if it's a boy, luke if it's a girl. So, yeah, is. Is your wife on board with that? Absolutely not. But for the purposes of the pod, you know, we'll go with Luke 10.1 or something, or Luke 9. I don't know, we'll think of a good number, we'll come up with a number or we could get.
Speaker 1:we could get the listeners to vote for a number or yes or a name. Or a name, or or a name. Well, it's got to be luke. But obviously you can you can vote for the middle names. Yeah, just just send us an email on what's the email address two luke's one sip at gmailcom.
Speaker 2:that's two luke's wait looks, wait, is it? Two looks dot one sip no, it's not, is it?
Speaker 1:it's? Two looks, one sip at gmailcom.
Speaker 2:That's two looks plural, one cip at gmailcom or or.
Speaker 1:We have an instagram which I always forget the the handle of. I think it's let's underscore talk, underscore procurement. We also have a text.
Speaker 2:So you can use that. Yeah, if you've listened this far, do send us some texts and let us know you know names. If you learn anything good today, all that good stuff.
Speaker 1:Can't wait for this procurement prodigy as well. By the way, I know I'm gonna have m tips before we learn to speak and before you I've just assumed it's a he, by the way yeah, no, so have I.
Speaker 2:I don't know why. Um, on a side note, by the way, I know we probably end the episode here, but on a side note, um, I did. When the scans died I thought, oh my god, this baby is back in. Uh, turned out, it was the umbilical cord that I could see. Um, so, yeah, we don't know the gender. We're gonna find out when it's born. So, um, all good stuff, uh, yeah yeah, we're gonna be, we're gonna.
Speaker 1:I'm going to be the pod dad yeah.
Speaker 2:Podfather, podfather. There you go. Yeah, um no step pod Wait, no um not step pod Um. It is podfather. Yeah, that does make sense. Um pod uh pod uncle.
Speaker 1:I like that. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, you need to raise it quickly so it can talk, and then we'll get it on the pod.
Speaker 2:Hello and welcome to let's Talk Procurement, the only show you need to master the art of procurement, let's go. So welcome back to the studio. As always, you are joined by myself, luke One and also the young, upcoming, handsome prodigy, luke Ten. So, for those who don't know, I'm an MSIPS what do you call it? Msips qualified mojo procurement professional. Not sure what skills I've got other than that, but that's what I bring to the table. And Luke 10 is slightly more junior in his career and is spreading his wings. So what we are trying to do here is to teach you and any other listeners about the world of procurement and, at the same time, we're helping Luke Tent spread his wings and succeed as a procurement professional.
Speaker 1:He's not said a word yet.
Speaker 2:Oh, there we go, hello. He has said one word, proof that you are around. How are you doing, mate?
Speaker 1:It's been yeah, it's been, uh, it's been ages. It's been really really too long, in fact you did. You did say, uh, something that I I disagree with you said we're here to teach you and the other listeners. I think we're only here to teach one listener, but we're not going to say who you are. You are, if you're hearing this, if you're hearing this, you are the special listener.
Speaker 2:If you're not hearing this, then you're not the special listener why do you always try and start shit with the listeners man, some, some episodes. You're like, oh, give me all your money.
Speaker 1:But next you're like, oh yeah, we only want some of you to learn no, no, the people, the listeners that are hearing this, this message specifically, are the special ones that we love, the ones, the ones that don't hear. If you, you know, if you talk to someone you say, oh, have you heard the secret code phrase of it's chico time? And they say, no, I don't know what that is, then you know, you don't write them yeah, well, I think I think anyone that tunes in is part of the cult.
Speaker 2:You know, I think that's what we are. I think we're a cult. You know, we can wear hoods and stand around a monument and celebrate the procurement gods. How does that sound?
Speaker 1:We can all wear T-shirts with I'm with Brock Block on yes and LTP written with Brock Block on yes and LTP, written in big letters on the back. Yeah, yeah. What would we sacrifice in a fire to the procurement gods, though?
Speaker 2:Probably the procurement says no lot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that could work. Yeah, lawyers as well, they can go in.
Speaker 2:I'm all right with lawyers. I'd rather keep them. To be honest, I quite like lawyers they're kind of handy.
Speaker 1:Um, what about pms?
Speaker 2:sales people yeah, project managers yeah, sales thems yeah, I like them. Um, I ask finance people who don't give us access to the budget?
Speaker 1:Yeah, which kind of links to our episode that we are trying to record about what is the dream procurement job?
Speaker 2:For each of us, right? I'm not going to, because my dream job is going to be completely different to yours.
Speaker 1:Oh, you're not creating a collaborative dream job. No, because I'm going to be us right. I'm not going to, because my dream job is going to be completely different to yours. Oh, you're not creating a collaborative dream job.
Speaker 2:No, because I'm going to be honest, right.
Speaker 1:Your dream job doesn't involve me.
Speaker 2:No, no, I wouldn't mind, but you're a different gen to me. You know you belong to a certain gen that gets a lot of stick. I would say Probably unfairly as well, half the time, um. But if you think of a typical uh generation zedder, um, you know what would you? If you google gen z traits, you probably get you um. So if I was to hazard, I guess your dream job is probably not to work or to I know, do tiktok procurement, dancing or something like that my dream job is to be sat scrolling on on TikTok or Instagram or something, apparently that's.
Speaker 2:That's what I would if I was being outrageous, that's what I would hazard a guess at. But but I just want to distinguish between them because I've got something in mind for me that I would one day love to do so um, what would, what would your, your generation be, I don't know watching dvds and talking to everyone through, through, uh, through massive brick phones.
Speaker 1:And also, are you the ones that carry around the massive speaker on your shoulder?
Speaker 2:he's definitely. Is that you personally listeners? He's really, really not liking the gen z attack. Um, I didn't, I didn't. I'm probably a bit too young to have carried around speaker on my shoulder. Um, maybe, a walkman probably was like the first kind of means to listen to music for me. A walkman and a cd player. Don't know what that is, does he's lost. So it's uh, yeah, it's a blank expression. Imagine a cd player that you put in your pocket. I mean you just plug in headphones to that what's uh, what's a cd player?
Speaker 2:oh yeah, here we go right. The aim of this is not to uh, obviously not to spark generational wars, but you know there is clear differences in the ways we work so and what our dream jobs are right. So we've got slightly different interests. You know you like refereeing. I'm sure that's part of your dream job. That's not procurement related.
Speaker 1:I do. I have spoken about this loads, but I think procurement is basically refereeing in the workplace, especially in public sector but I can't actually disagree with you, to be honest, too much.
Speaker 2:Um, all right, well, I'll start with mine then and we'll go to yours, because you're, you're, you're a bit, um, unique. So for me, my, my, my dream job. Obviously, for for for it to be a dream, you have to want to. It's got to be something you want to wake up and do every single day. Right, I agree, I'm with you so far. You've got to be one of you and it's got to be procurement related.
Speaker 2:We're procurement podcast. We obviously love procurement. That's why we're here. We live and breathe purchasing and contractual management and all of that beautiful stuff. So I would, personally, I'd like my job to focus on stakeholder management side of things. I think that's, uh, you know, a bit more strategic and, um, you can get away with doing slightly less work when you're strategic. And I think, personally, I would like to be a procurement advisor or director for a particular football club. I think that would be my dream job Because I'm passionate, I'll get a discount for the team that I love. Hopefully, your office is built onto the stadium or within the stadium, which is pretty cool. You get discounted merch, you get kind of an insight to how a billion dollar industry runs and you get a sick bonus when your team wins something.
Speaker 1:So you'd be involved with the buying of players, or would you? Would you not be on my dream job?
Speaker 2:is not human trafficking. No, it's. Um, it would probably be. That's not quite what you said, is it?
Speaker 1:um, let's take take my words and make a completely different meaning, all right?
Speaker 2:I'm not sure if buying in the transfer market is the role of a procurement person. I'm not sure. I mean, if anyone knows that, I'd love to know, because if it is, then you know I can ring up and I can be like look, I heard Lukaku's a bit washed. Can we buy him for £10? And everyone would be fuming because he's back at the club for a 15th time. But I, I got a saving. So you know, would you rather have? I don't know, would you rather have? I think a bit, you know, ronaldo up top or Lukaku and.
Speaker 2:I got. I got Lukaku plus £100 million saved. So you know, maybe that is a thing, but I was thinking more. You know the infrastructure you have is probably category management that runs it. You know things like kits, um sporting infrastructure, physio kit, all that physio kit, um yeah, catering everything that goes into it, sponsorships, all of that and just kind of having the oversight of that. I feel like that would be really interesting and if it's a team I support, I'd probably genuinely want to do a good job every day what would the work-life balance be like for a role like that?
Speaker 1:would you be? I'm assuming you'd be expected to work, or at least um be contactable for match days, which are often saturdays, sundays evenings?
Speaker 2:yeah, I mean, if I'm being honest, I'm usually, if it's a team I support, I'll be watching the games anyway. So I'll probably, I'll probably be watching it from my VIP office box. That comes totally making it up, by the way.
Speaker 1:But I don't think the procurement advisor for a football team gets a gets a hospitality box you've not heard of the OTP stand.
Speaker 2:The whole stand is just dedicated to us as individuals.
Speaker 1:The LTP arena. Oh, yes, two. Lukes arena, two Lukes, one arena.
Speaker 2:I love it. I absolutely love it.
Speaker 1:You could be the away end To the Tom Bridge. Yeah, surely you're the away end yeah, I'm happy to be. I'll be a neutral end.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, you'd be the fucking refs, wouldn't you? You'd be the ref.
Speaker 1:I'll sponsor the refs changing room, the refs lounge. Yeah, yeah, where they get all the, uh, all the backhanders brown envelopes is that a thing is it well, I don't know, I'm not uh, I'm not a uh ref in the prem, yet I'll tell you.
Speaker 2:I'll tell you if it is do you get it in like you know arsehole lane or whatever it is, that you go in referee and then I know you got tittering town versus dog and duck fc. Yeah no, no, we, uh, we don't, we don't I feel like you're quite an in in uh, to call it integral. I think I feel like you've got integrity about you and you wouldn't. We wouldn't cave into a to a bribe unless it was over like 10 grand is that?
Speaker 1:is that how much you think I'd price my uh, my career at?
Speaker 2:yeah, okay, it's not necessarily your career, is it?
Speaker 1:you've got procurement to fall back on okay, okay, no, no, that's interesting, and I don't actually I don't know the price, I don't know what the price would be.
Speaker 2:It's a weird one isn't it because it's well? Would you? Would it? Would it take more to bribe you to rig a match or to bribe you to award me a contract?
Speaker 2:I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say for the record, I would never do either oh boom, here we go this is one of those times where I'm trying to sound innocent even though I am innocent, but it's just making me sound more, more guilty yeah, yeah, it's almost like I'm kind of I could do with you like pausing the recording, telling me your actual answer, and then, uh, then I can, at least I'm satisfied, you know, um, but no, yeah, so that'd be my dream, my dream job. I think it'd be relating it to something that I've got a passion, because, you know, being in IT don't necessarily have passion for building a server, you know, or for procuring a thousand laptops like I don't, I don't get, I don't get up in the morning to think about the next delivery from Dell, but if it is, it was the new kits for the 2027 season and I get to try samples.
Speaker 2:I mean I get to negotiate with the sponsors. Do we want exactly? Do we want Pike, or do we want Ladidas or Fuma? You know loads of options. So Das or Fuma, you know loads of options. So, yeah, that would be me, and obviously it's a dream job, so it would be paying me two million a year, plus bonus Nice.
Speaker 1:Nice, although if someone listens to this, in about six months with inflation, that could with inflation these days, that could be a bloody low salary, couldn't it? That could just be. That could be minimum wage. In about six months with inflation that could, with inflation these days, that could be a bloody low salary, couldn't it? That could just be. That could be minimum wage in about six months.
Speaker 2:I mean, I was just trying to be modest, to be honest yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 1:So my one, in fact, I mean, you're not gonna believe this my one will be the exact same as yours. Oh bullshit, no, absolutely no. So there would be some similar similarities, um, like, for example, stakeholder engagement. Um, I quite like the part of procurement where you have to talk to people and build relationships, that that can talk to a lot of people, but then again, sometimes that might be, uh, there might be draining, so a mixer would be good.
Speaker 1:Um, I think I don't think I'd want to specialize in a specific category, but I would. I would, um, yeah, I'd want to have a lot of variety, I think, whether that be variety with the clients or the projects or what I'm actually procuring, just to keep things, uh, keep things interesting, although, on the other hand, it would be good to become an expert in something. That's something that I'd like to be is, like you said, an advisor. Um, yeah, not necessarily like a director, or a cpo um, where you've got to manage a load of people that moan at you all the time, like, uh, like me, and you do currently to our, to our director. Um, uh, something with travel I'd enjoy going to see supplier sites or going to see things in different countries um sort of scunthorpe, birmingham yeah, yeah, hull um barrow in finesse, yeah, places like that scarborough, you know um.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, a bit of travel in there, seeing different, seeing different places, seeing different cultures. You know how they do things up in the north of england. Um, and the oh, the final two things, a bit of a bit of work-life balance. I'd like to have my own life outside of it go to watch football, go to ref games If I haven't been suspended yet by your report to the FA Football Association. And then also, the last thing would be I'd like to do something that involves some sort of continuous improvement or process improvement. Um, so, analyzing, you know this is what we do for our tender process now could we streamline it and make it more efficient? Um, so, something, some sort of some sort of continuous improvement element as well, I think I'd enjoy.
Speaker 2:And, of course, a competitive uh salary and benefits package that sounds like a pretty much every job listing, doesn't it?
Speaker 1:a competitive salary and a lovely yeah, what's it can, what's it competing with it, you know, yeah, attacking second shelf, yeah, yeah um, okay, uh, all right, public or private I'd probably say I mean to completely cut my options off.
Speaker 1:I'd probably say private um, because, having worked in both industries, I feel like you get more ability and more flexibility to be creative. Like, for example, if you want to contract with a supplier and you don't have many requirements like this is going to be an important relationship you can call them up and say, look, we'll do this, and X, y and Z for you. If you can call them up and say, look, we'll do this, and x, y and z for you. If you can, in return, do that um, whereas in the public sector it's sort of like going through the process of here's our tender documents. This is what we want to do, this is the process we're going to follow. Oh, I can't talk to you because we're in negotiation or we're in standstill phase or whatever. Um. So yeah, I think I think private for me okay and probably better.
Speaker 1:Better salaries in general, yeah, at the cost of your pension yes, yeah, and at the cost of uh, of saving, saving your country, some money serving your country yeah, um would.
Speaker 2:So you want international travel. I'm just kind of thinking what, what would, what would give you that you know what kind of procurement would give you international travel?
Speaker 1:in terms of what product do you mean?
Speaker 2:yeah, like, if you obviously like, if you're buying software, you're not going to be flying over all the world. Are you to see different places?
Speaker 1:uh, procurement of beer, that'd be good, that's a good one. Yeah, procurement of um of of beer, maybe of products that go into beer what goes into beer wheat? Wheat, barley pops, maize just naming all them, all the things I can think of to do with growing um, yeah, I can see that or maybe like fine fabric.
Speaker 2:Obviously you're a man who's always well actually I tell that back um, you're a man who knows some well-dressed people potentially.
Speaker 1:I have seen some well-dressed people in my life. It's all in the mirror fabrics. The eye roll there was.
Speaker 2:I bet you probably heard that eye roll there on the audio my brain has just scattered a little bit because obviously we got interrupted because you had to go to the bathroom but while because you ordered the whole of the Amazon warehouse other warehouses are available whilst you were disrupting the flow of the Amazon warehouse.
Speaker 2:Other warehouses are available. Whilst you were disrupting the flow of the pot, a delivery happened to turn up coincidentally at the same time, and it was a nine piece delivery. I don't know about you, but nine pieces is quite a lot, isn't?
Speaker 1:it. Would you rather one big piece or nine smaller pieces?
Speaker 2:Well, there's only a couple of small pieces in this, this package oh, so it was nine big pieces it was no, it was one, two, three, four, five well-sized pieces and then two smaller pieces and two very large pieces. And the reason that's the reason my brain's going down this, this kind of uh alleyway, is because it's actually, um, a travel system for a baby. Obviously, um made the transfer announcement that I'm uh acquiring a little one in the very near future on a previous uh previous video Probably not the best way to describe it, but expecting my firstborn relatively soon and a bunch of all the stuff turned up so, like you know, like a pram and a car seat and a bag and a cot and all that wonderful stuff just turned up. So that was an interesting tender that I had to run nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, congratulations. This is the first time I'm hearing of that, so I'm gonna make a very real. My real reaction to this is oh, wow, I can't believe you're. You're having a baby. Congratulations, I'm proud of you. What's that right? Is that the right way to uh to react, considering this is the first time I've heard that news?
Speaker 2:well, we haven't discussed it on previous podcast episodes where I unveiled it live after your there's no recording evidence of that happening god's sake. Um no, the tender process for for a travel system was interesting. It's a very viciously competitive market, shall we say. So I learned quite a lot from that, and I also learned that um ask for discount codes, basically um okay, interesting, don't be shy are you?
Speaker 1:have you? Have you taken that target off your car that people seem to decide to drive their cars into you?
Speaker 2:Yes, well, I have. Now I've got a new car, one that a lot of people didn't drive into, one that hasn't got any magnets in? Yes, well, unless it needs magnets for going going around. But yeah, um, no, the car's okay, the car's doing well, um, but now I've got a car seat that I need to put into the car and all this.
Speaker 1:You know dad life, I suppose do you know yet whether you're having a, a boy or a girl?
Speaker 2:no, um, we're gonna, we going to save that until the very last moment, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, nice. Have you thought of a way to name it Luke? If it's a girl, obviously. If it's a boy, it's going to be Luke. If it's a girl, are you going to go with Luke as well, or?
Speaker 2:Well. So to be honest, the boy's name is a bit difficult. The wife's not too keen on having another Luke around her. She said two is already too many and I kind of suggested LJ. She's not sure where that's come from, but it's obviously Luke Jr LJ.
Speaker 1:She hates it even more Spell E-L space, j-a-y, jll E-L space, j-a-y, j-o-y, j-a-y, like J L-J. Spanish baby.
Speaker 2:LJ. Yeah, I like that LJ1. It's a good name, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm going to refer to him or her from now on as LJ.
Speaker 2:I like that. Yeah, if it's a lady, I mean Luketta Lukina.
Speaker 1:I was chatting to your wife the other day.
Speaker 2:I hate this Two recordings, since you've met everyone and now it's just falling to shit two recordings, since you've met everyone and now it's just falling to shit.
Speaker 1:And she was saying that she quite likes the name luca.
Speaker 2:Was it luca or lucas?
Speaker 1:yeah, she likes lucas, so I don't know how you've uh, how you've swung that one, but yeah, yeah, if it's a boy, then lu Luca gets my approval as well as LG LG.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, I'll pass that message on. By the time this is published, I've probably got a kid, and I don't know.
Speaker 1:We'll see. That's all right. I'll DM her mate, don't worry, I'm sure you will.
Speaker 2:Wow, they've gone from dream jobs to you just so, yeah, I mean, look insights to dream jobs. I'd be really interested to know what you listeners have as your kind of dream procurement job. I do like consultancy. Consultancy's a wonderful one, isn't it? You just chat shit, get paid, as Jeremy Vardy would say. Yeah and yeah. I guess I think about what my worst job would be.
Speaker 1:It'd probably be, I don't know, procuring pencils, something like that Category manager for pencils there probably are people out there that procure pencils and I'm sure I mean we use it as the kind of boring standard example, but maybe it's interesting. If you procure pencils, then well, if you procure pencils and you disagree with us, then get in touch, let us know how it is. If not, we'll keep using it as a as a reference for the boring aspect of procurement I did actually meet um procurement.
Speaker 2:A pencil procurer once. Didn't really get on with them because, uh, they weren't the sharpest.
Speaker 1:Nice, nice, thank you. No, I rate that I like that.
Speaker 2:That's acceptable. I had that in the bick of my mind.
Speaker 1:My disappointment is immeasurable.
Speaker 2:Bick, you know, famous brand.
Speaker 1:Pens no, it's getting worse. Brilliant it's also a pen, not a pencil, so it doesn't work. I, I'm gonna give that.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna give that zero out of ten I know, I swear to you, google it, bick will make pencils. Probably do. Probably do so, not having you berate that witty intelligence. Um, I was quite proud of that. So, um, yeah, look, if you, if you want to let us know what your dream job is, let us know. We'll read it out and we'll ask our networks. Actually, we'll say if you've got any of those dream jobs going around. I'm still not quite sure what sector you're working in. You're just buying wheat or something now.
Speaker 1:Oh me, yeah, I'm buying ingredients for beer.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I'm working for a particular football club, buying players or kits or something. So you know, the dream's there, we can do it, I think.
Speaker 1:Nice Dreams within reach and with our famous you know, our names are famous now, whenever we go into, we can't really go out the house much without our security now because we're so famous, right? So a lot of people know us. Probably someone out there that knows, knows about our dream job. So, yeah, let us know, and the way to let us know is through our instagram, which is let's underscore talk, underscore procurement. We have a text us function, which the link of which is in the description of the episode and all other episodes. We have a buy me a coffee page and we also have an email address which is two looks one sip at gmailcom, that's two looks one sipatgmailcom, that's twolukesonesipatgmailcom.
Speaker 2:Also in the description below, if you get confused between what's plural, what's not, and what's a number, what's a?
Speaker 2:letter yeah, loads of ways to get in touch with us. We love a little listener getting in touch and we love hearing from you. We love speaking to you. We love everything. We love the interactions. We love, we love a little listener getting in touch and, uh, we love, we love hearing from you. We love speaking to you. We love, we love everything. We love the interactions. You know, we love the strategic conversations. So you know, onwards and upwards, tell us your dream jobs.
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