Senior Buyer - Buying Desk

AR Resourcing Group Ltd; North Devon; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Client Relationship
31 days from award to verbal offer accept

Time to Fill 4 weeks 3 days from award to verbal offer accept

Here's what our client said...

I recently worked with Dan for the first time to fill a Senior Category Buyer position for our central procurement team. He really nailed it by delivering three excellent candidates making it hard for us to choose just one.

Adam Heal
Group Supply Chain Manager

About the client

Summary

• Wates Group is one of the leading privately-owned construction, residential development, and property services businesses in the UK.

Size

• Turnover: £1.6bn, Employees: 3,800, Established: 1897.

About the Job

Reason for vacancy

• A new role created as part of the Group Supply Chain Manager’s restructuring and upskilling of the central procurement team.

Key responsibilities

• Strategic management of a portfolio of group material and equipment agreements.
• Experience of direct construction materials procurement, who can commute weekly to Newberry.
• Some understanding of strategic procurement or category management experience from any reputable construction company.
• Identifying candidates with some strategic procurement experience, in a challenging location.

Our Approach

We provided our Plan 3, Contingent recruitment service, we worked alongside other agencies to identify, qualify and present suitable candidates.

Candidate Interview

• Approach candidates electronically 1st, phone 2nd.
• Qualify candidates against key competencies.

Search Depth

• Recently registered candidates contacted from our database network.
• Advertise on our Job Alerts candidate email, website, LinkedIn feed and job boards.

CV Format

• Client Selection Criteria, Risks and Assessment of Suitability.
• Job function dedicated Account Manager.

Shortlist Timescale

• Within 1 week.

In Summary

Shortlisted

• 4 CVs shortlisted within three days.

Interviewed

• 2 candidates interviewed (alongside candidates from other agencies), both candidates invited back for final interview.

Offered

• Preferred candidate successfully offered and appointed, though both candidates were considered offerable.

This was the first time I worked with Adam and his team and was really impressed with the services provided. Due to an internal development we had to slightly amend the candidate brief... they quickly reapplied themselves to the search and provided a good selection of candidates to interview.