Case studies · Procurement & supply chain
A procurement role, filled
A hands-on Purchasing Buyer for a fast-growing dust and fume extraction business in West Yorkshire. 18 candidates worked, 6 presented, filled in 41 days.
Purchasing Buyer
A fast-growing dust and fume extraction business · Dust & fume extraction
- Time to fill
- 41 days
- Package
- Up to £35,000 depending on experience
- Location
- West Yorkshire, full time, 08:00–16:00 Monday to Friday
A buyer in a small, fast-growing business does not specialise. This one raises the purchase orders, chases late deliveries, compares supplier quotes, controls cost and keeps the records audit-ready, working across contracts, stores and accounts and reporting straight to the General Manager. The brief needed prior buyer experience and the breadth to cover all of it.
Eighteen candidates were sourced and screened, and twelve of them were interviewed by us. Six were presented to the client. Three of those six were taken to client interview, and one of them was hired. Forty-one days from brief to hire, on three client interviews.
Pipeline — candidates reaching each stage
- Sourced & screened 18
- Internal interview 12
- Presented to client 6
- Client interview 3
- Hired 1
18 candidates worked. Filled in 41 days.
Six candidates presented, three interviewed, one hired.
41 days from brief to filled.
How the fee works
Every role on this page was delivered on the same basis: a fixed fee, agreed before we start, with no percentage of salary attached. The straightforward search and the difficult one cost the client the same.
That is the point of the model. A percentage fee charges you more for hiring a better-paid person and rewards us for the easy search. A fixed fee puts the risk of a long search where it belongs — with us. And if we do not fill the role, you get every penny of your fee back.
Every figure here comes from our own placement records. Clients and placed candidates are not named. Full detail on the model is on our Guaranteed Hire page.
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