Green & Growing

By giving procurement a seat at the leadership table, Green Infrastructure Partners isn't just unleashing the function's potential to create value – it's creating new opportunities for scalability and success.

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Lately we've been hearing a lot about moving fast and breaking things to meet the demands of growth. It seems like a contemporary concept, but its long-term success relies on a bedrock business basic: It's all about the execution. And when it comes to building a strategic, collaborative sourcing, and procurement organization, nobody is doing it like Green Infrastructure Partners (GIP) - but they will be.

For over 50 years, Green Infrastructure Partners has designed, delivered, and maintained infrastructure for Canada's growing cities. From demolition, shoring and foundations, excavation and remediation, structures, paving, and the production of materials, GIP self-performs all project scopes without reliance on subcontractors.

As Canada's fastest-growing and largest vertically integrated best-in-class infrastructure solutions provider, GIP specializes in complex end-to-end road-building and civil infrastructure for government, municipalities, and private clients.

“GIP is experiencing tremendous growth, both organic and accretive,” said Dipesh Pattni, the company’s SVP of Strategic Sourcing and Procurement. “A great place to start is deploying a procurement strategy to support this pace of growth.” As an expert in post-merger integrations and transformational leadership, Pattni has scaled up procurement organizations with a combined value over $1 billion.

Since 2023, Pattni has led the metamorphosis of GIP’s procurement organization, beginning with creating procurement value and delivering on the bottom-line improvement reflected in the P&L. This has given procurement a seat at the table - not to focus on procurement’s typical transactional set of functions, however - but to shape strategies for the success of the business.