Are your suppliers helping you grow or just filling orders? If you're treating vendors like fixed-line costs instead of future-shaping partners, you're holding back growth, agility, and margin. In this episode, you’ll discover: How to assess your current supplier relationships across 12 critical partnership elements The 3 maturity levels—Baseline, Growth, and Strategic—and what shifts each one unlocks Practical moves to transform a vendor into a co-invested growth partner Want to build partnerships that scale your business—not just service it? Listen now and get the “From Vendor to Partner” framework here . Thanks to Fiverr for sponsoring this episode! Use this link and the code PHILHSC10 to get 10% off your first Fiverr order. New episodes Monday, Wednesday and Friday. More from Phil Hayes-St Clair: Get 100 proven partnership tactics to earn trust and drive growth through high-value partnerships Find me on LinkedIn Book a 1:1 Call This podcast explores business growth through strategic partnerships for sales and marketing leaders, emphasising revenue growth and supply chain management by closing high-value partnerships, identifying the right partners, and building strong relationships based on trust, mutual value, and insights gained from reverse engineering partnerships. PS - Have a guest recommendation for the show? Share this link with them .
