Buyers who cut cost without cutting service, for businesses across Yorkshire and their supply chains.
A permanent buyer should leave the supplier base stronger than they found it.
Procurement vacancies across Yorkshire come from retail and e-commerce DCs, regional 3PLs, manufacturing and port logistics. Each needs buyers who can balance price, service and risk.
If buying talent is scarce around Ilkley, we search a wider commute and look at hybrid working before we lower the bar on skill.
With the M62, M1 and A1(M), Leeds Bradford and Doncaster Sheffield airports and the Humber ports at Hull and Immingham carrying the region's freight, buyers across Yorkshire often manage haulage and carrier contracts as a major category.
Procurement roles for retail, manufacturing, 3PL and public sector supply chains.
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.
We stay in contact while the new buyer meets the suppliers and takes over the contracts.
Indicative permanent salaries in Ilkley run from around £30k for buyers up to £80k+ for heads of procurement.
The package matters as much as the salary: bonus, flexibility and how much the business values procurement. Figures are indicative, not a guarantee.
Categories, spend, suppliers, systems and the result the new buyer needs to deliver.
Spend, savings, negotiations, systems and right to work checked before the first interview.
A small number of candidates, each with notes on categories, spend and results.
Interim buyers are useful for a single project. Ongoing categories need someone who will still be there at the next renewal.
Many heads of procurement began as buyers. We recruit at every stage of that career.
A strong procurement brief covers:
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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. Tell us the office and site days and we will only approach buyers who can work that pattern.
Yes. We work across Yorkshire & the Humber. Give us the location of the role and we will search the commute around it.
Yes. Our supply chain desk recruits demand and supply planners, analysts and supply chain managers.
Influence over commercial decisions, reliable spend data, fair pay and a manager who backs their negotiations.
Procurement recruitment elsewhere in Yorkshire & the Humber:
Other specialisms in Ilkley:
See our national Procurement Recruitment page, or all logistics recruitment in Ilkley.
One brief covers a single buyer or a full procurement team.