Celebrating Excellence in Contracting
It is with great pride that we announce the shortlisted entries for the World Commerce & Contracting 2025 Innovation & Excellence Awards for our EMEA regional entries.
WorldCC's Innovation and Excellence Awards stand as the industry's definitive recognition of exceptional performance, innovation, and leadership in commercial and contract management. This year's shortlisted candidates have demonstrated remarkable vision and exemplary practice.
Shortlisted entries demonstrate the transformation happening across our profession. Through their innovative approaches and commitment to excellence, they are actively reshaping how organizations approach commercial and contract management. Their achievements serve as powerful case studies that demonstrate the strategic value that outstanding commercial and contracting functions deliver to organizations.
This program delivers more than prestigious recognition. It paves the way for enhanced professional standing with a platform to promote standards and raising capabilities in commercial practice. Successful submissions echo our collective mission to elevate contracting and commercial management as essential strategic functions that deliver measurable business value.
Special thanks to our panel of esteemed judges - as leaders in the field of CCM across public, private, and non-profit sectors, they bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to our awards program ensuring that every submission is evaluated with the highest level of integrity, impartiality, and transparency.
Their collective expertise guarantees that each award is not only a symbol of genuine achievement but also an inspiration to the entire commercial and contract management community. We are proud to have such a distinguished group of judges dedicated to recognizing the brightest minds and most innovative practices in our field.
Shortlist and submission summaries
We are pleased to announce the following shortlisted entries across our 6 award categories. We received a very high calibre of entries, so to have made the shortlist is a big achievement – congratulations to everyone included, also a huge thank you must go to all entrants.
- CREOSUM APS: Strategic Innovation Meets Negotiation Excellence: Kemp & Lauritzen's SMARTnership Journey
- Nordic Negotiation Hub: Doubling production capacity by Buying a new Plant
- byte, Bayerische Agentur für Digitales GmbH: Public Sector Ready: Agile Legal, Procurement & Data Protection from Day One@byte
- Saudi Electricity Company: Enhancing Contractual Procedures
- Conga: Conga Revenue Lifecycle Management
- Amadeus IT Group: Achieving Operational Excellence in Global Contract Management
- Rolls-Royce plc: Rolls-Royce Management System: Driving Business Transformation
- Lenovo: Strategic Achievement for Concord
- North West London Procurement Shared Services: A Journey Towards Strategic Collaboration and Innovation
- Eren Enerji: Changing the heart of a body
- Strategic Sourcing Sphere: Pioneering Sustainable and Inclusive Contracting: A Transformative Approach in Procurement Excellence
- a NDA Bot, built using Copilot Agent, which drafts NDAs and provides negotiation support
- a Contract Lifecycle App, offering easy access to contract data and intuitive dashboards; and
- workflow automation, using power Automate, to automate repeatable tasks
- Strategic Sourcing Sphere: Revolutionizing Contract Management through Innovative Technology Integration
Join us in celebration!
In recognizing excellence, we strengthen our profession.
Congratulations to all shortlisted candidates. Winners will be announced at the WorldCC EMEA Summit in Edinburgh on April 28-29, 2025, at the Sheraton Grand Hotel & Spa. We invite the entire commercial and contracting community to join us in celebrating these remarkable achievements.