Procurement recruitment for Wellingborough employers buying freight, warehousing, fleet, fuel and packaging, where every renewal counts.
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.
If buying talent is scarce around Wellingborough, we search a wider commute and look at hybrid working before we lower the bar on skill.
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 Wellingborough 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.
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.
We help agree the package and manage the notice period through to the start date.
A buyer who remembers the last tender knows where the supplier has room to move.
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.
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 can recruit a procurement manager and buyers together, staggering start dates if that suits the handover.
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 Wellingborough:
See our national Procurement Recruitment page, or all logistics recruitment in Wellingborough.
One brief covers a single buyer or a full procurement team.