We recruit procurement and purchasing people for Kendal and the North West, screened on the spend they have managed and the savings they can evidence.
We look for buyers who know your categories: haulage, warehousing, fleet, fuel, packaging or materials handling equipment.
Across Cumbria, much of the buying supports operations at sites such as the M6 corridor at Carlisle and Penrith. We search for buyers who already know that supplier market.
Procurement offers compete with retailers, manufacturers and the public sector. We help pitch salary, bonus and flexibility so the first offer is accepted.
Procurement demand across Cumbria follows food and drink and dairy processing, nuclear and marine supply chains, forestry and timber and regional hauliers.
Buying, category, sourcing and contract roles.
Where the role asks for a professional procurement qualification such as CIPS, we confirm it before the shortlist.
We look for buyers who weigh service and risk as carefully as price.
We stay in contact while the new buyer meets the suppliers and takes over the contracts.
Indicative permanent salaries in Kendal run from around £30k for buyers up to £80k+ for heads of procurement.
An offer pitched at the market is accepted faster. Ask us for a current read on procurement pay before the role is advertised. 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.
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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Buyers and senior buyers, category managers, purchasing and procurement managers, strategic sourcing and supplier relationship managers, contract managers, analysts and heads of procurement.
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 North West. 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.
Procurement recruitment elsewhere in the North West:
Other specialisms in Kendal:
See our national Procurement Recruitment page, or all logistics recruitment in Kendal.
Send the vacancy and we will point out anything in the package or advert likely to slow the search.