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Occupation

Buyers and procurement officers

Buyers and procurement officers organise and undertake the buying of raw materials, equipment and merchandise from manufacturers, importers, wholesalers and other sources for distribution, resale or for own internal use.

Based on analysing 16104 job ads this job spends 10.8% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 18 skills asked for, of which 0.5% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £30,000 - £35,000.

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.

Shropshire and Staffordshire
Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire
East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire
Tees Valley and Durham

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.

Lean manufacturing

Found in 201 job ads (16.4%)

Implement sustainable procurement

Found in 88 job ads (7.2%)

Ensure compliance with environmental legislation

Found in 70 job ads (5.7%)

Environmental engineering

Found in 46 job ads (3.8%)

Develop efficiency plans for logistics operations

Found in 38 job ads (3.1%)

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.

Communication

Found in 5028 job ads (3.4%)

Analyse supply chain strategies

Found in 4447 job ads (3.0%)

Use microsoft office

Found in 3667 job ads (2.5%)

Attend to detail

Found in 3486 job ads (2.4%)

Use spreadsheets software

Found in 3355 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 2298 job ads (19.8%)

Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Found in 599 job ads (5.2%)

Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding

Found in 553 job ads (4.8%)

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 539 job ads (4.6%)

Sale of motor vehicle parts and accessories

Found in 330 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.