There is a growing demand for good quality procurement staff as more organisations realise just how important procurement is to their operational resilience. For procurement professionals, the public sector is becoming a particularly career choice.
Procurement and supply chain work makes some very specific demands on those who work in it. Recruiters will be looking for candidates with qualifications or experience, preferably both: however the experienced recruiters will also be looking for the distinctive traits of a logistics professional. They will be looking for a logical, level-headed approach: a careful, proactive worker.
A good candidate will be someone who is numerate and capable of thinking on their feet, processing figures as (s)he
goes through the day. The ideal candidate will need to be able to communicate effectively, since (s)he will need to build a solid working rapport with those (s)he works with.
As specialists in the field of Procurement Recruitment, the BiS Henderson team are well-placed to ensure that the candidates they select will be both willing and able to do the job. Procurement jobs are an integral part the BiS Henderson supply chain and logistics specialisation for public sector, government and NGO positions.
At the selection stage, candidates will be assessed on essential topics such as how tendering committees operate, how tenders are
accepted, as well as their knowledge of procurement ethics. It is essential that all suppliers are treated impartially and fairly: only established facts can be taken into consideration when choosing between potential suppliers. The fact that a company is already an established supplier elsewhere in the organisation is not admissible as a criterion for choosing its offering for goods or services in another area of the client’s organisation.
Every company will have its own code of conduct for purchasing officers, which will cover such things as conflicts of interest,
inducements masquerading as gifts or meals. One leading British retailer had a reputation for being particularly strict on supplier relations, forbidding so much as a ballpoint pen to be received as a gift!
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