Procurement recruitment for Cottingham employers buying freight, warehousing, fleet, fuel and packaging, where every renewal counts.
A buyer who can negotiate but not manage suppliers wins the contract and loses the relationship. We test for both.
Procurement employers across the Humber & East Yorkshire include container and ro-ro operators, energy and bulk logistics, chilled food distribution and regional hauliers. Each buys differently, so we recruit to the categories rather than the job title.
Renewing a major freight or warehousing contract soon? A buyer who has run that tender before is worth finding early.
With the M62, the A63, the A15 and the ports of Hull, Immingham and Goole carrying the region's freight, buyers across the Humber & East Yorkshire often manage haulage and carrier contracts as a major category.
The people who source, negotiate and manage the contracts.
We ask candidates how their savings were measured and signed off before we put them forward.
Winning a contract is half the job. We look for buyers who manage suppliers well after the signature.
For a new or growing procurement function we can recruit the manager and the buyers together.
Indicative permanent salaries in Cottingham run from around £30k for buyers up to £80k+ for heads of procurement.
Our pay advice comes from current offers for comparable buying roles. Figures are indicative, not a guarantee.
Most good buyers are approached, not found on job boards.
Spend, savings, negotiations, systems and right to work checked before the first interview.
We arrange interviews and any negotiation exercise or presentation, then brief each candidate.
Buyers grow into category managers and category managers into heads of procurement. Hiring well now builds that path.
We describe the spend data and systems as they really are, so nobody is surprised in month one.
A strong procurement brief covers:
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Yes. We recruit buyers who purchase haulage, warehousing, fleet, fuel and packaging for shippers and logistics businesses.
Not always. Some employers ask for a CIPS qualification and others put more weight on experience. Tell us which matters for your role and we will screen for it.
Yes. We compare salary, bonus and hybrid terms with current offers for similar buying roles across the region.
Yes. We work across Yorkshire & the Humber. Give us the location of the role and we will search the commute around it.
Yes. We recruit contract managers who run supplier performance, service levels and renewals.
Procurement recruitment elsewhere in Yorkshire & the Humber:
Other specialisms in Cottingham:
See our national Procurement Recruitment page, or all logistics recruitment in Cottingham.
One brief covers a single buyer or a full procurement team.