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With a 72 hour turnaround Value Match identified and provided on-site procurement resources

Procurement Recruitment
Procurement Recruitment
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Challenge

Value Match had worked with our customer for some time, a specialist consultancy company, who had a strong base of procurement consultants in place, however, due to an urgent requirement needed interim resources to be deployed immediately.

Solution

Value Match, using its own commercial capability, validated the requirements and prioritised the experience and capability needed:

  • Provided a full-time project manager to support the resourcing approach due to the urgent timescales and specialist subject matter area
  • A small blended team of supply chain managers and analysts was required
  • Specific sector expertise was critical due to the supply chain risk associated with the project, this significantly narrowed the candidate criteria
  • Quickly advised the customer of the realistic day rates expected for the different levels within the team
  • Sourced candidates from the Value Match network

Results

  1. Resources identified, contracted with, and fully briefed prior to being needed on-site
  2. Resources identified within the commercial cost framework needed for the customer to ensure a reasonable profit margin despite urgent requirement
  3. Recommended to the customer that we build an accredited pool of interim procurement and commercial resources to meet future potential requirements, to reduce the risk for future projects
For further information, contact Alison Shields

T: 07701 383 179
E: Alison.Shields@value-match.co.uk

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75% of procurement placement were made from the Value Match network

procurement recruitment
procurement recruitment
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Challenge

Our customer required facilities management, professional services, and IT category management capability to support several forthcoming major projects with EU Directive experience and had been unsuccessful in attracting permanent resources with the desired capability and experience.

Solution

Due to the urgency of requirements Value Match used a combination of approaches to meet the challenge:

  • Ensured the customer requirements and job description more accurately reflected the customers operational needs and ensuring a better match with potential candidate experience
  • Using the extensive Value Match network of accredited procurement specialists to reduce time to fill roles and to access a broader and higher quality of potential candidates
  • Used the Value Match network to pro-actively identify other suitable candidates
  • Directly targeted interim resource we felt may be looking for permanent roles in the future to provide customer continuity and meet the project timescales

Results

  1. 75% of placements were made from the Value Match network within 2 months of receiving the customer brief
  2. Provided short term interim solution to ensure customer operational requirements were met, with several interims converted to permanent during the project
  3. Client saved over £50k in a 12-month period when compared to prior rates paid to other agencies
For further information, contact Alison Shields

T: 07701 383 179
E: Alison.Shields@value-match.co.uk

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Specialist commercial resources secured while achieving 30% savings for private sector customer

procurement recruitment
procurement recruitment
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Challenge

The customer had no internal expertise to manage a specialist recruitment process with the generalist HR unable to find programme and commercial management expertise and had received very limited responses to previous job posts.  This was limiting the customers’ ability to effectively support several critical professional service contracts.

Solution

Value Match working in partnership with the customer to:

  • Design a process and set of terms and conditions that would attract candidates to the customer, highlighting the customers values and working culture
  • We worked closely with the client to refine job descriptions and adverts to more accurately position the roles in the marketplace
  • Used specialist job boards and niche targeting on LinkedIn to help identify a broader range of candidates
  • Used the Value Match network to identify candidates that were immediately available

Results

  1. Established an end to end resourcing process for the customer, including company and role information to attract future candidates
  2. 30% made in savings on 4 permanent placements from previous agencies quoted prices
  3. All vacancies filled within 4 weeks of engagement
  4. Value Match supported the resource needs for additional commercial analysts
For further information, contact Alison Shields

T: 07701 383 179
E: Alison.Shields@value-match.co.uk

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Talent and Diversity

Procurement Resourcing
Procurement Resourcing
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In partnership with a private sector client we created a customer focused procurement team with diverse capabilities and experience.  The requirement was to support a rapid growth in revenue, introduce blended technical skills, multi-sector experience anchored around procurement, with all roles needing strong communication and customer focus.

Value Match began by interviewing the customer to establish their values and define their requirements for each specific role, to ensure a capability and cultural fit.  It was clear that in addition to traditional skills a resonance with the environment and local community was critical to the customer’s values.  The customer had a long and demonstratable commitment to community values and supported the local community through various charity projects.  The cultural and values fit informed all stages of the process, from job specification development, candidate search through to assessment and interview stages.

The customer commitment to the process was exceptional, and for certain roles it was clear that to attract a pool of candidates some adjustments to existing salary bands was required, both up and down, based upon the available candidates and the potential value they would bring to the customer.  Due to this high-level of engagement and partnership approach we were able to fully resource the entire team across the UK over a 6-month period.  The team is now bedding in and successfully meeting their business strategy and targets.

As with all assignments, the resourcing team keeps in touch with the customer and successful applicants to ensure the process provides a sustained solution for all parties and to learn any lessons from the project.  Our biggest take-away was to ensure there was a common understanding of the balance between technical and communication skills, and specifically the technical areas the customer was prepared to support successful candidates to close any gaps in knowledge.