Procurement & S2P · Data & BI
How to work
with Denova
Practical expertise. Flexible delivery. Support shaped around the work your team needs to get done.
Start with your needs
What needs to move forward?
- Add expertise to your teamEmbedded colleagues, working to your priorities.
- Give recurring work clear ownershipA managed service with agreed responsibilities.
- Deliver a defined improvementA project with clear scope and milestones.
In this article
A procurement team needs capacity to keep sourcing and supplier activity moving. A data team needs dependable reporting while it improves the systems behind it. A transformation programme needs specialist delivery without pulling people away from essential operations.
These situations call for the right expertise and a practical way to bring it into the business. Denova supports two connected service areas: Procurement & S2P and Data & BI. You can access that expertise through embedded delivery, managed services or defined projects.
01 / Our expertise
Two service areas, connected by the work
Procurement & S2P
Keep everyday procurement moving while improving processes, systems and supplier relationships.
- Source-to-Pay operations and platform support
- Strategic sourcing and contract management
- Supplier management and third-party risk
- Transformation, testing and adoption
Data & BI
Build clearer reporting, stronger data foundations and more efficient ways of working.
- Power BI dashboards and business reporting
- Data engineering, integration and migration
- Data governance and quality
- Systems administration and workflow automation
These capabilities often work together. Improving procurement reporting may require both an understanding of purchasing processes and the skills to connect data, define measures and build a useful dashboard.
02 / How we work
Three ways to bring expertise into your business
You set day-to-day priorities. Denova colleagues work alongside your people, with training, mentoring and performance management from Denova.
Useful when: priorities evolve, a team needs continuing support, or a skills gap is holding work back.
Denova manages defined activities against agreed responsibilities and performance measures, with regular reporting and service reviews.
Useful when: recurring work needs a reliable service structure and continuing improvement.
We agree scope, deliverables, responsibilities and milestones, then deliver and validate the work with your team.
Useful when: you need a dashboard, integration, process improvement or system implementation delivered.
More consistent quality
Training, mentoring, performance management and continuing development give colleagues support beyond an individual assignment. We invest in their capability over time, helping maintain delivery standards as the work evolves.
Greater continuity
For agreed roles, a shadow buddy learns the relevant processes and responsibilities alongside the primary colleague. Preparing someone before cover is needed reduces dependence on one person and supports continuity through absence or departure.
A faster route to onboarding
Where suitable skills are available on our existing bench or through established talent pools, we can shorten sourcing and assessment. Timing depends on the requirement and availability; client access, induction and business context still need to be agreed.
Less hiring complexity
You work with Denova to agree the skills, scope and support needed. We manage recruitment, employment and ongoing development, reducing the work involved in assembling and maintaining separate contractor arrangements.
04 / Managed services
When you want an area of work managed
A managed service is useful when the requirement is a recurring activity with clear responsibilities and measures of performance. Examples include procurement administration, supplier onboarding, platform support or regular reporting.
We agree the service scope, delivery responsibilities, escalation routes and review cycle. Denova then manages the agreed work, with visibility of performance and priorities for improvement. Your team retains the business decisions and approvals defined in the arrangement.
This suits organisations that want an agreed service managed on their behalf, with less day-to-day coordination of individual tasks.
05 / Project delivery
When there is a defined outcome to deliver
Some needs have a clear destination: a reporting dashboard, an automated workflow, a data migration or an improvement to a procurement platform.
Project delivery brings specialist expertise to a defined scope. We agree the deliverables, milestones, dependencies and acceptance criteria, then build and validate the solution with your team. Documentation, handover and any continuing support are considered as part of the engagement.
Models can also combine. An embedded colleague may identify an improvement that becomes a defined project; an agreed managed service may support the resulting process. The responsibilities and commercial scope are agreed for each part.
06 / Denova in practice
See how the support works in real organisations
These engagements show how specialist delivery and continuing business knowledge can develop together.
07 / Client feedback
What our clients say
“Denova has been a great partner in helping us modernize Procurement and accelerate our shift from long manual processes to intelligent, AI-enabled workflows. They understand what it takes to operate a lean procurement function, think ahead, and have helped us move faster than we could have on our own.”
Erin Allan
Global Procurement, HackerOne
“Working with Josh and Edi has been a genuine pleasure. Their deep knowledge of Source to Pay processes and Project Management, allied with their attitude to always get things done to a high standard, on time and on budget, provides a level of quality assurance that is hard to find.”
Jon Clarke
Global Procurement Director, Kantar
08 / Choosing your support
Start with the work you need to get done
You do not need to arrive with a delivery model already chosen. Start with three questions:
- What needs attention? The activities, systems, data or outcomes that require support.
- Where should day-to-day ownership sit? Within your team, with Denova managing a service, or within a defined project.
- What needs to flex? Workload, specialist skills, timescales or continuity around important roles.
We use that discussion to agree the expertise, responsibilities and delivery approach that fit your organisation, with room to adapt as priorities change.
Let’s talk
What does your team need to move forward?
Tell us about your procurement or data priorities, the systems you use and the work you need to deliver. We’ll help you find the right support.