Procurement recruitment for Edinburgh 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.
Edinburgh and the Lothians sit at the eastern end of Scotland's Central Belt, with the M8/M9 corridor and the Forth ports driving distribution. Across the Lothians, procurement teams buy for operations at sites such as the M8 and M9 corridor parks, Newbridge and the Forth ports.
Direct buying, indirect procurement, category management and contract management call for different people. The search is shaped to the role.
The strongest procurement candidates across the Lothians are usually already buying for businesses such as grocery and retail DCs, food and drink supply chains, energy and port logistics and national 3PLs.
Permanent procurement roles matched to categories, spend and seniority.
Freight, warehousing, fleet, fuel, packaging or materials handling: we match buyers to the categories you buy.
We check salary, bonus and hybrid terms against current procurement offers before the role goes out.
Where the role asks for a professional procurement qualification such as CIPS, we confirm it before the shortlist.
Indicative permanent salaries in Edinburgh run from around £30k for buyers up to £80k+ for heads of procurement.
Strategic and category roles usually pay more than transactional purchasing roles. Figures are indicative, not a guarantee.
Categories, spend, suppliers, systems and the result the new buyer needs to deliver.
We identify the buyers doing similar work across a realistic commute.
We help agree the package and manage the notice period through to the start date.
A buyer who remembers the last tender knows where the supplier has room to move.
Buyers who leave early often cite little influence, poor data or a business that ignores procurement. We raise all three first.
A strong procurement brief covers:
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Buyers and senior buyers, category managers, purchasing and procurement managers, strategic sourcing and supplier relationship managers, contract managers, analysts and heads of procurement.
Yes. We recruit buyers who purchase haulage, warehousing, fleet, fuel and packaging for shippers and logistics businesses.
Yes. We work across Scotland. 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. We recruit contract managers who run supplier performance, service levels and renewals.
Procurement recruitment elsewhere in Scotland:
Other specialisms in Edinburgh:
See our national Procurement Recruitment page, or all logistics recruitment in Edinburgh.
Share the categories, the spend and the role and we will give you a view of the Edinburgh market before the search starts.