Procurement & Supply Chain Director

Client Relationship: New client, first placement. Time to Fill: 10 weeks 3 days from award to verbal offer accept.

Our client said: We gave Adam a project to find us a Procurement & Supply Chain Director for our construction business which he filled first time. Adam presented a high calibre shortlist from which we could have selected any of the candidates. Throughout the interview process it was clear that all the candidates had been properly briefed and were well prepared for interview.

About the Client

Summary: Established in 1884, Tilbury Douglas is a leading UK building, infrastructure, engineering and fit out company that delivers vital projects across sectors including health, education, highways, justice, defence, aviation, water and environment.

Size: 1,200 employees and a turnover of £535m.

About the Job

Reason for Vacancy: Backfill Head of Procurement & Supply Chain following a demerger from Interserve.

Key Responsibilities:

• Creation and delivery of a national procurement and supply chain management strategy.
• Procurement and supply chain leaders with mainly construction experience from any medium to large main contractor, national search.
• Experience of creating procurement strategies nationally or for a business unit, and had the resilience to manage a significant change programme.
• Finding candidates of an appropriate calibre willing to consider a newly created business that was demerging from a struggling group.

Our Approach

We provided our Plan 1, Retained Executive Search recruitment service, where we were retained as their sole recruiter to identify, qualify and present suitable candidates until we filled the job.

Clients choosing this product receive the following level of service:

• Headhunt candidates with an emphasis on phone or video interviews.
• Qualify candidates with multi-tiered screening.

Search Depth:

• All regional candidates contacted multiple times from our database network.
• Headhunting from 20 competitors.
• Advertise on our Job Alerts candidate email, website, and LinkedIn feed, unless it’s a confidential hire.
• Prioritised over all jobs.

CV Format:

• Candidate Suitability Matrix, Risks and Assessment of Suitability.

Shortlist Timescale:

• Within 4-6 weeks.

In Summary

Shortlisted:

• 6 CVs shortlisted in Four weeks.

Interviewed:

• 6 candidates interviewed, 3 candidates invited to final interviews.

Offered:

• Preferred candidate offered and appointed.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates.

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