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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 20623 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.

Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire
Shropshire and Staffordshire
East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire
South Yorkshire

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 271 job ads (15.4%)

Implement sustainable procurement

Found in 126 job ads (7.2%)

Ensure compliance with environmental legislation

Found in 109 job ads (6.2%)

Environmental engineering

Found in 77 job ads (4.4%)

Develop efficiency plans for logistics operations

Found in 53 job ads (3.0%)

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.

Communication

Found in 7165 job ads (2.1%)

Planning and scheduling events and activities

Found in 6313 job ads (1.8%)

Analyse supply chain strategies

Found in 6256 job ads (1.8%)

Developing professional relationships or networks

Found in 6050 job ads (1.8%)

Use microsoft office

Found in 4930 job ads (1.4%)

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 2941 job ads (19.9%)

Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Found in 798 job ads (5.4%)

Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding

Found in 695 job ads (4.7%)

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 701 job ads (4.7%)

Sale of motor vehicle parts and accessories

Found in 398 job ads (2.7%)
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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.