If you are looking for an interesting role, procurement jobs are well worth considering. For a procurement specialist there are two ways you can use your skills. You can work for an organisation buying the supplies, equipment and raw materials they need to make their products or deliver their services. However, these jobs are far and few between. Most firms are simply too small to employ someone in such a role. Even large multi-nationals have relatively small procurement teams.
Modern Procurement Jobs
Today, most procurement jobs are actually sales jobs. They involve selling a company’s products or services to other companies. It is a sector that is quite difficult to get into, but offers fantastic employment opportunities. The pay scale is good, especially for successful sales personnel. Staff who sell well enjoy good job security and plenty of bonuses.
Finding Procurement Jobs
There is never a shortage of sales jobs available and this applies to all parts of the country. However, as you would expect the vast majority of the best opportunities are to be found in the south east of the country.
It is also possible to find these jobs abroad. However, most UK firms base their sales force in the UK itself and ask their staff to travel internationally to make sales abroad.
The sales sector is a very interesting one to work in. Every industry needs a sales force, and they need sales personnel with a different skills set and a different knowledge base. If you are successful in one sector, you can often seek and find work in another sector.
In sales, you have to be confident, able to communicate well, neat and tidy, friendly, helpful and above all, ambitious. Having experience of the industry, you want to work in also helps, but is not necessary. Graduates with sales related degrees do especially well.
By far the best place to find procurement jobs is with job agencies who specialise in sales jobs. Most of these agencies have their own websites. They advertise and list jobs for every industry sector. However, many also allow you to add your CV to their database. They allow firms to scan their database and approach candidates they are interested in rather than simply advertise their jobs.
If you are looking for procurement jobs the Sales Force website is a good place to go. They have hundreds of jobs available and update their listings several times a day.
