Buyers who cut cost without cutting service, for businesses across the South East and their supply chains.
The strongest buyers are rarely job hunting. They are usually in the middle of a tender somewhere else.
Procurement employers across the South East include Channel-port and customs operators, chilled grocery distribution, aerospace supply chains and regional carriers. 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 M25, M3, M4, M20 and M23, Gatwick Airport and the ports at Southampton, Portsmouth and Dover carrying the region's freight, buyers across the South East often manage haulage and carrier contracts as a major category.
The people who source, negotiate and manage the contracts.
Winning a contract is half the job. We look for buyers who manage suppliers well after the signature.
Where the role asks for a professional procurement qualification such as CIPS, we confirm it before the shortlist.
We stay in contact while the new buyer meets the suppliers and takes over the contracts.
Indicative permanent salaries in Dartford 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.
We arrange interviews and any negotiation exercise or presentation, then brief each candidate.
We ask referees about savings delivered and supplier relationships, not just dates of employment.
We help agree the package and manage the notice period through to the start date.
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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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. Tell us the office and site days and we will only approach buyers who can work that pattern.
Yes. We work across the South East. Give us the location of the role and we will search the commute around it.
Yes. We can recruit a procurement manager and buyers together, staggering start dates if that suits the handover.
Yes. Our supply chain desk recruits demand and supply planners, analysts and supply chain managers.
Procurement recruitment elsewhere in the South East:
Other specialisms in Dartford:
See our national Procurement Recruitment page, or all logistics recruitment in Dartford.
One brief covers a single buyer or a full procurement team.