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Occupation

Procurement and purchasing managers and directors

Procurement and purchasing managers and directors oversee the buying of goods, equipment and services for their company, and negotiate the most competitive prices.

Based on analysing 9503 job ads this job spends 20.8% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 18 skills asked for, of which 0.7% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £48,000 - £55,000.

Top regions

At the point of upload, job adverts are tagged with a specific location. These locations are standardised to ITL 2 (International Territory Levels) codes. For each ITL region, we divide the proportion of job adverts for an occupation by the proportion for all occupations - this gives us a measure of which regions have proportionally more or less job adverts for each occupation - we call this the "location quotient". We display the ITL regions with the highest location quotients for this occupation.

Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire
West Midlands
Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire
Shropshire and Staffordshire
London

Top green skills for this occupation

For each job advert we extract the green skills it asks for. We display the 5 most commonly asked for green skills for this occupation.

Implement sustainable procurement

Found in 136 job ads (13.9%)

Lean manufacturing

Found in 94 job ads (9.6%)

Ensure compliance with environmental legislation

Found in 75 job ads (7.7%)

Promote sustainability

Found in 52 job ads (5.3%)

Environmental engineering

Found in 49 job ads (5.0%)

Top skills for this occupation

For each job advert we extract the skills it asks for. We display the 5 most commonly asked for skills (green or not) for this occupation.

Analyse supply chain strategies

Found in 6164 job ads (7.1%)

Apply procurement

Found in 2769 job ads (3.2%)

Negotiate settlements

Found in 2530 job ads (2.9%)

Communication

Found in 2108 job ads (2.4%)

Supplier management

Found in 2006 job ads (2.3%)

Industries

We extract industry information from job adverts using the way the company is described in the advert. We display the most common industries job adverts in this occupation are linked to.

Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Found in 1351 job ads (20.0%)

Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding

Found in 473 job ads (7.0%)

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 470 job ads (7.0%)

Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Found in 435 job ads (6.4%)

Activities of employment placement agencies

Found in 186 job ads (2.8%)
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About this analysis

This analysis has been compiled by measuring the greenness of online job adverts. You can read more about the methodology here.