Hiring a category manager in St Austell? We test the negotiation record and the supplier management, because the role needs both.
Every procurement candidate we put forward is screened on the spend they managed and the savings they evidenced.
Operations near St Austell run on the A30 and A38 rather than motorways, serving food processors, marine businesses and seasonal retail demand. Across Devon & Cornwall, procurement teams buy for operations at sites such as Plymouth's port and the Devonport and Langage industrial estates.
If buying talent is scarce around St Austell, we search a wider commute and look at hybrid working before we lower the bar on skill.
The strongest procurement candidates across Devon & Cornwall are usually already buying for businesses such as chilled and ambient food distribution, marine services, aggregates and china clay logistics and independent hauliers.
The people who source, negotiate and manage the contracts.
We ask candidates how their savings were measured and signed off before we put them forward.
Freight, warehousing, fleet, fuel, packaging or materials handling: we match buyers to the categories you buy.
For a new or growing procurement function we can recruit the manager and the buyers together.
Indicative permanent salaries in St Austell run from around £30k for buyers up to £80k+ for heads of procurement.
Our pay advice comes from current offers for comparable buying roles. 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 help agree the package and manage the notice period through to the start date.
A permanent buyer learns your suppliers, your contracts and your history of price rises. That knowledge compounds at every 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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Yes. We recruit permanent buyers, category managers and procurement managers for businesses across Devon & Cornwall.
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 compare salary, bonus and hybrid terms with current offers for similar buying roles across the region.
Yes. We work across the South West. Give us the location of the role and we will search the commute around it.
Procurement recruitment elsewhere in the South West:
Other specialisms in St Austell:
See our national Procurement Recruitment page, or all logistics recruitment in St Austell.
Share the categories, the spend and the role and we will give you a view of the St Austell market before the search starts.