Our 2025 Awards are open for entries from May 30th 2024.
Join us for a celebration of the pioneers of our global contracting and commercial community, as we invite submissions for our annual innovation and excellence awards.
Join the World Commerce & Contracting 2025 Innovation & Excellence Awards to highlight and honor the remarkable efforts and advancements made by professionals and teams in commercial and contract management. This prestigious program recognizes your significant role within the community. It’s a chance to demonstrate your professional successes in a field that values continuous progress and commitment. Submit your entry and stand among the best in our community.
Why Submit
Recognition:Gain prestigious recognition for your contributions and achievements in contracting. Celebrate your hard work and success and highlight your impact on the industry.
Professional Growth:Elevate your career by showcasing your skills and achievements. Participating in these awards can enhance your professional reputation and open doors to new opportunities.
Community Engagement:Connect with a vibrant community of like-minded professionals. Submitting to the awards provides a platform for networking and sharing ideas, enriching your professional relationships.
Inspiration:Be a part of an event that inspires innovation and excellence. Your involvement can motivate peers and set new benchmarks within the industry.
Visibility:Increase your visibility and influence in the commercial and contract management field. Winning or being shortlisted can significantly boost your profile among industry leaders and peers.
Unsure where to begin? Download our submission guidelines here.
We have a robust and comprehensive process in place that ensures integrity, impartiality and transparency. Our judges are leading professionals that span the field of Contract and Commercial Management in public, private, and nonprofit sectors. We insist that all judges inform us if there is any conflict of interest or if they feel bias may occur.
Submissions are now open across all regions!
Closing dates for submissions are:
EMEA: 31 January 2025
APAC: 31 March 2025
Americas: 30 June 2025
Awards ceremonies
Awards will be presented at WorldCC’s 2025 international Summits.
This award celebrates individuals, teams, and organizations that have demonstrated exceptional skill in overcoming negotiation impasses to achieve positive outcomes. It is not the size of the deal that matters, but the ability to navigate challenging barriers.
Key areas of focus include:
Effective communication strategies
Trust-based collaboration
Value optimization for all parties involved
Demonstrating empathy and an understanding of the things that matter to each side
About WorldCC Award for Post-Award Contract Excellence
This award honors individuals, teams, and organizations that have shown a steadfast commitment to optimizing contractual agreements post-award, thereby contributing to the long-term success and effectiveness of contractual engagements.
Key areas of focus include:
Driving transformative outcomes
Contributions to long-term business success
Excelling in building successful collaborations
Judging criteria:
Ensures contract execution delivers on envisaged outcome within set time and cost
Demonstrates adaptability and effective
Implementation of necessary contract changes
Manages and resolves conflicts, maintaining contract cooperation and progress
WorldCC Award for Sustainable Contracting - in partnership with the WorldCC Foundation
About WorldCC Award for Sustainable Contracting - in partnership with the WorldCC Foundation
This award, in partnership with the WorldCC Foundation, is given to teams and organizations that have effectively integrated sustainable and inclusive practices into their contracting and commercial management processes.
Key areas of focus include:
Strong commitment to positive social and environmental impacts
Incorporation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Judging criteria:
Evidence of sustainable principles being woven into contracting processes
Demonstrates the inclusion of diverse suppliers and equitable practices
Quantifiable social and environmental benefits resulting from the contracting practices
Ongoing efforts to enhance sustainability within contractual engagements
Winners will be celebrated at our in-person Summits held in 2025. Registration for our EMEA Summit in Edinburgh is already open; tickets for both our APAC Summit (held in Melbourne in 2025) and our Americas Summit (location TBC) will go on sale later this year.
Fill in this brief form to get detailed submission guidelines sent to your inbox, to give you the best possible chance of winning a WorldCC Innovation & Excellence Award.
Hear from previous winners
Mark RobertsDirector of Commercial Services, Metropolitan Police
The challenges posed to all organisations through 2020 provoked all organisations to seek out creative and innovative ways which would ensure operational continuity. The Metropolitan Police Service was no different in this respect and moved with pace to protects its staff from the threat of COVID 19 through providing a unique solution to a real business need.
The recognition by the WorldCC for the efforts in mobilising this solution was a huge boost for everybody involved in the project specifically and for the wider commercial team in general. It has helped embed the value and role of Commercial Services in the eyes and minds of our stakeholders in enabling solutions for the organisation. I’m sure the award has also helped with the awareness of the team outside the organisation with greater interest being expressed in candidates seeking roles within what is now an award winning team.
Pratiksha Becker, Head of Supplier Relationship Management,SA Health
Winning the "Innovation in Crisis" Award APAC from World Commerce and Contracting was a huge boost to the motivation of our Procurement and Contract Management Team at SA Health as it acknowledged our hard work and achievement during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
Procurement and Contracts Management doesn’t often get recognition in large organisations as it isn’t seen as core business – but SA Health’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has proven the agility of our procurement and contract management to deliver positive outcomes and the "Innovation in Crisis" Award recognized this.
Saber Haidous,Global Purchasing & Manufacturing Services, Global Manager,GM
Personally it was great accomplishment that did not only provide me with a moment of self-pride but also it did energize me to do more and strive to look for opportunities, it really raised the bar for me and for my team. We introduced the award to the team as a catalyst to ignite stronger will to contribute more to our GM One Team’s success.
I had the honor to present the award to my executive leadership and VP. General Motors is a company that value individual's contribution, especially those who help build the team and its success, those who use the moments of accomplishments as an engine to go stronger and faster.
My leadership, my team and I were very proud to receive this award and celebrate our contribution to our global customers and to the communities we live and work in. Thank you to WorldCC for the trust and recognition.
Ines Curtius,Legal/Contract Intrapeneur, Speaker, Airbus Defence & Space
The WorldCC 2019 award for Strategic Direction for the Airbus Defence and Space initiative 'Contract Innovators' was personally for me a clear and loud sign that my gut feeling for centuries that something is wrong with contracts and consequently we need to innovate is shared and appreciated also outside Airbus.
It reassured me that the path I am on to challenge and innovate the legal industry and society is the right one. It certainly played an important role of me becoming one of the "European women of legal tech 2020".
I think as an initiative it gave us more credibility within and outside Airbus and last but not least it did show that Airbus is not only a innovator in the technical areas but also in the supporting functions.
