# Oliver Hurrey

Oliver Hurrey brings companies, suppliers and sustainability practitioners together to make supply-chain decarbonization more practical, with a focus on Scope 3 emissions and procurement.

- Profile: https://b2binfluencer.marketing/creators/oliver-hurrey/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliverhurrey
- LinkedIn followers: 17,433
- Topics: supply-chain, scope-3-emissions
- Based on 14 dated posts, latest 2026-10-07

## Summary

Useful for connecting procurement, suppliers and carbon accountants to make Scope 3 decarbonization practical and decision-focused.

- Best for: A Scope 3 software vendor or consultancy selling procurement-side decarbonization services for a content programme.
- Not for: A consumer-facing brand or B2C software company wanting high-volume paid social endorsement.
- Check first: Confirm commercial terms, follower demographics and recent comparable results before committing budget.

### Takeaways

- Over 500 suppliers: 43% raised cost or said sustainability did not count at contract award.
- 24% pointed to customer specifications or sourcing choices as drivers of their emissions.
- Carbon data only matters if it changes a decision.

## Main ideas

- **Suppliers want to decarbonize; the problem is how customers ask**: Hurrey's central diagnosis is that decarbonization requests fail because of how buyers make them, not because suppliers refuse. In a briefing based on a survey of more than 500 suppliers, they report four objections for procurement teams: buyers ask suppliers to decarbonize, then award on price; customer specifications and directed sourcing set much of a supplier's own emissions; reporting takes more time than acting; and many suppliers have almost no sustainability capacity. Hurrey concludes that requests need to be consistent, commercially realistic and proportionate to the size of the supplier.
- **Make carbon part of normal commercial decisions, not an add-on report**: Hurrey argues that carbon only moves when it is built into the machinery buyers already use: specifications, evaluations, contracts and supplier relationships. Rather than bolting sustainability onto a deal after agreeing the price, they say buyers should negotiate it into the deal using levers such as KPIs, contract length and payment terms, with governance from the top of the organization. Hurrey presents this to procurement teams and, separately, to suppliers as a commercial offer: suppliers should state what they need in return, such as volume certainty or a specification change.
- **Carbon data only matters if it changes a decision**: Speaking to a carbon accounting audience, Hurrey argues that the field risks getting very good at measurement without changing what organizations do. They want technical people and data specialists to start with real-world use cases—the decisions carbon data is meant to inform—rather than making data easier to handle for its own sake. Hurrey also says more corporate voices need to explain what they actually need built, so the work is guided by demand rather than by what is technically interesting.
- **Coordinate the practitioner communities instead of working in parallel**: Hurrey's recurring priority is joining up the groups that touch Scope 3: practitioners doing the work, their carbon accounting colleagues and the software vendors serving them. They see this as a way to move faster and with less confusion, and position their own peer group as a partner to adjacent professional communities rather than a competitor. The same instinct shapes their event work, bringing procurement, supplier, healthcare, clean heat, renewables and accounting audiences into the same week of sessions.
- **Evaluate tools through peer practice, and move past surveys**: Hurrey treats the Scope 3 software market as something practitioners should assess by comparing notes, not by relying on vendor claims. They run tool clinics where peers examine what solutions actually do and compare the stacks they are building, and report what the community is trying to leave behind—particularly the supplier survey as the default way to collect data. This is a practical, buyer-side view of the tool market: which vendors are being tested, what they publish and what peers recommend to each other.

## Work to read

- [What suppliers really think about customers' requests to decarbonize](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/oliverhurrey_what-suppliers-think-of-customer-requests-activity-7509230103986446337-YvDs)
- [Getting procurement and sales on the same page](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/oliverhurrey_i-think-we-are-starting-to-get-procurement-activity-7510769902044102656-oXZC)
- [Coordinating Scope 3 practitioners, carbon accountants and solutions](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/oliverhurrey_if-we-can-coordinate-all-the-worlds-scope-activity-7493635762173730817-_4Tg)
- [Climate Week NYC: what the Scope 3 Peer Group actually did](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/oliverhurrey_climateweeknyc-activity-7508848746219352066-rPuz)
- [Carbon accounting conference: what decisions will carbon data change?](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/oliverhurrey_carbonaccountingconference-activity-7513280050440359937-UznI)
- [Scope 3 tools clinic and the move beyond surveys](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/oliverhurrey_big-news-in-the-scope-3-tools-world-especially-activity-7503758310488240128-nttm)

## Brand relationships

- **Scope 3 Peer Group** (disclosed_partnership)
- **Carbon Accounting Alliance** (disclosed_partnership)
- **The Sustainable Procurement Pledge** (disclosed_partnership)
- **PACT (Partnership for Carbon Transparency)** (mention)
- **Gravity** (mention)

## Partnerships

Oliver Hurrey's partnership activity runs through the Scope 3 Peer Group, the supply-chain decarbonization community they convene, rather than personally sponsored content. Posts show the group working with named organizations through partner events and conference sessions, briefings and a multi-day summit, vendor sessions in a recurring Tools Clinic, hosted hospitality at peer gatherings, jointly developed resources, and podcast guest slots. They do not publish a sponsorship policy, rate card, audience specification, or partnership inquiry page. The only contact address shown is oliver@scope3peergroup.com, offered for procurement engagement and Peer introductions, not as a documented sponsorship route. Ask the group directly about commercial terms and the right route for a partnership inquiry.

## Alternatives

- Bernhard Heinrich: Choose Bernhard Heinrich when the campaign’s central question is what a product is exposed to, rather than what a supplier is being asked to do. The posts trace risks across materials, parts, suppliers and geographies — energy prices, trade dynamics, carbon costs, regulation, geopolitical dependencies and critical materials — and cite figures from the IEA Global Critical Minerals Outlook: for gallium, graphite, manganese and rare earths, the leading refining country accounts for more than 90% of global supply. This makes them useful for campaigns aimed at sourcing, engineering, compliance or product teams deciding where to buy and what to redesign. They also suit software or data vendors positioning carbon data as a decision layer alongside cost and resilience, rather than another reporting obligation. The later post sharpens the case: understanding what a product costs today is one thing; understanding what could change its economics tomorrow is becoming just as important.
- Kelly Hobson: Choose Kelly Hobson when the campaign is specifically about transport and logistics emissions and targets logistics service providers, freight forwarders, carriers and transport technology businesses. The posts speak directly to those firms, drawing on two regulatory shifts: the GHG Protocol’s proposed Scope 3 revisions, including a 95% coverage requirement, greater transparency on primary versus secondary data, and new expectations for enabled and facilitated emissions; and ISO 14083 becoming the recognised methodology for calculating and reporting logistics emissions. The argument is deliberately commercial: firms that give customers verified primary transport emissions data aligned to ISO 14083 gain a competitive advantage over those still using averages and assumptions. ISO 14083, the posts argue, is becoming business critical rather than a nice to have. This is a sharper, more standards-and-compliance-led frame than a general procurement engagement programme, suited to a defined industry segment that needs to prepare its systems, teams and reporting now.
- Matt Pumfrey: Choose Matt Pumfrey when the campaign is about making Scope 3 ambition useful to procurement staff, or about how AI products in this space should be built and explained. The posts argue that the gap is no longer measurement but execution: years and millions have gone into measuring supply chain emissions, setting targets and producing strategies, yet firms remain stuck. Procurement people should not have to become carbon experts or prompt engineers. They make supplier, contract, cost, quality, risk and performance decisions every day; the useful move is to put relevant knowledge into their workflow at the point of decision, not hand them another long report or questionnaire. This fits a brand seeking a builder’s narrative: how the product works, what verification, validation and governance took, and why simplicity for the end user matters. The skeptic’s angle on prompt-engineering content is also directly reusable for a campaign about AI slop versus tooling that disappears into the job.

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AI-assisted summary of public posts. Audience demographics are not available. Engagement appears only where we checked recent posts. Method: https://b2binfluencer.marketing/methodology/