How can recruiters streamline your Procurement and Supply Chain talent acquisition process?

As the busy season sets in before the end of the year, many organisations are having to relocate their priorities and resources. This means that many business leaders are having to create their own hiring strategies as HR are too busy to support them in this. One of the most daunting prospects of this is the time pressures of trying to find Procurement and Supply Chain talent to ensure your end-of-year goals are achieved and you’re primed and ready for next year. 

The reality facing many hiring managers is that trying to hire without a trusted recruiting partner or internal support can raise its own unique set of challenges when it comes to Procurement and Supply Chain. Hiring managers may find it difficult to create a fully-realised strategy to fill their team with the skilled professionals they need due to: 

• Advancing Procurement and Supply Chain technology and a need for new skills 

• Creating job descriptions for new positions  

• Budget constraints 

• Impending deadlines and a sense of urgency to increase manpower/headcount 

• Projects and work building up in the background 

Unfortunately, these factors can contribute to choices being made without enough time or information to properly consider them, which will ultimately cost more money than engaging the support of a recruiter. Indeed, The REC estimate that a bad hire at mid-manager level (earning £42,000) can end up costing up to £132,015. Not only will the cost-effective benefits of using a recruiter help you stay within your hiring or yearly budget, but recruiters can streamline the entire process.   
 

Four ways a recruiter can improve your Procurement and Supply Chain team recruitment 

We have put together four ways a specialist Procurement and Supply Chain recruiter can help to streamline your talent acquisition process: 

1. Quickly assess your current systems, processes and team structure to make suggestions about appropriate candidate profiles 

As we’ve mentioned, technology is improving exponentially and creating better Procurement and Supply Chain software all the time, this means it is imperative that all organisations ensure they have the talent they need to use cutting-edge software to secure their cutting edge in the market. 

A recruiter can look at what systems you are currently using, and suggest the requisite skills needed to use it effectively, ultimately helping your company create better financial insight and improve business decision making. This can help you identify what you need from your new hire, and how they will fit within your team, department and company as a whole. 

2. Identify which recruitment marketing channels would better attract your ideal talent pool  

Recruiters can suggest relevant recruitment marketing channels that will attract a diverse range of your ideal candidates, saving you time and usually money too as many of those channels are free for recruiters to use and optimise.  

3. Quickly sift applications and provide you with only the most qualified CVs 

In order to take the pressure off hiring managers who have countless tasks and responsibilities to manage outside of their recruiting initiatives, recruiters can sift through hundreds of CVs on a daily basis and even perform preliminary screening and interviewing.  

4. Support your interview process and ensure the right cultural fit 

Recruiters are able to help you shape your interview process and ensure you ask questions that will allow you to better ascertain your candidates’ experience, knowledge and skills but also their viability as a cultural fit with your team and company.