From purchasing assistants to heads of procurement, we find permanent buyers in Hastings who negotiate well and manage suppliers better.
We look for buyers who know your categories: haulage, warehousing, fleet, fuel, packaging or materials handling equipment.
Logistics operations around Hastings serve one of the UK's wealthiest consumer regions, with the Channel ports and Gatwick within the region. Across the South East, procurement teams buy for operations at sites such as the parks along the M25, M20 and M23 and the Solent ports.
Direct buying, indirect procurement, category management and contract management call for different people. The search is shaped to the role.
Across the South East, buyers and category managers are hired by grocery and retail DCs, Channel-port and customs operations, FMCG supply chains and national 3PLs.
From junior buyers to procurement directors.
We ask candidates how their savings were measured and signed off before we put them forward.
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 Hastings run from around £30k for buyers up to £80k+ for heads of procurement.
Candidates weigh salary alongside bonus, hybrid working, pension and the size of the spend they will own. Figures are indicative, not a guarantee.
We identify the buyers doing similar work across a realistic commute.
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 ask candidates what made them leave their last procurement role. It tells us whether yours will keep them.
A strong procurement brief covers:
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Yes. We recruit permanent buyers, category managers and procurement managers for businesses across the South East.
Buyers and senior buyers, category managers, purchasing and procurement managers, strategic sourcing and supplier relationship managers, contract managers, analysts and heads of procurement.
We look at the categories and spend they have managed, the savings they can evidence, the negotiations they have led and their right to work.
Yes. We recruit contract managers who run supplier performance, service levels and renewals.
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.
Procurement recruitment elsewhere in the South East:
Other specialisms in Hastings:
See our national Procurement Recruitment page, or all logistics recruitment in Hastings.
Send the vacancy and we will point out anything in the package or advert likely to slow the search.