Buyers who cut cost without cutting service, for businesses across the East Midlands and their supply chains.
A permanent buyer should leave the supplier base stronger than they found it.
Operations across the East Midlands rely on the M1, A14, A42 and A50, East Midlands Airport's major air-freight hub and DIRFT's rail terminal. Buyers who understand those routes negotiate freight and warehousing contracts from a stronger position.
Direct buying, indirect procurement, category management and contract management call for different people. The search is shaped to the role.
Across the East Midlands, buyers and category managers are hired by national distribution centres, 3PLs, e-commerce fulfilment and rail-connected freight operations.
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.
We look for buyers who weigh service and risk as carefully as price.
For a new or growing procurement function we can recruit the manager and the buyers together.
Indicative permanent salaries in Grantham run from around £30k for buyers up to £80k+ for heads of procurement.
If the offer looks light against the procurement market, we say so before interviews are arranged. Figures are indicative, not a guarantee.
We identify the buyers doing similar work across a realistic commute.
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.
Interim buyers are useful for a single project. Ongoing categories need someone who will still be there at the next renewal.
If a procurement role is hard to fill, we find out whether pay, scope or reporting line is the cause and tell you plainly.
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. Tell us the office and site days and we will only approach buyers who can work that pattern.
Yes. Our supply chain desk recruits demand and supply planners, analysts and supply chain managers.
Upload your CV and tell us your categories, your spend and the kind of role you want. We will contact you when a permanent role fits.
Influence over commercial decisions, reliable spend data, fair pay and a manager who backs their negotiations.
Procurement recruitment elsewhere in the East Midlands:
Other specialisms in Grantham:
See our national Procurement Recruitment page, or all logistics recruitment in Grantham.
Share the categories, the spend and the role and we will give you a view of the Grantham market before the search starts.