Senior Buyer - Buying Desk

Company Wates

Job Senior Buyer - Buying Desk

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.
Prospective candidate pool	Experience of direct construction materials procurement, who can commute weekly to Newberry.
Candidate experience	Some understanding of strategic procurement or category management experience from any reputable construction company.
Particular challenge	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.

Clients choosing this product receive the following level of service:

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.
Recruited By	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.

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We keep coming back to Adam and AR Resourcing because they keep providing us with great candidates. The thing they do that others don’t is that they listen and tailor the search to the type of individual you need. We’re really happy with the new team members we’ve hired from AR.

Andrew Taylor
Commercial Manager

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Buyer - Civils

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.

Mike O'Donnell
Procurement Manager

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