What's going on in the Procurement Job Market with Martin Smith

Martin Smith is the Founder of Talent Drive, a recruitment company that specialises in Procurement and Supply Chain roles. Martin is perfectly placed to understand what is going on in the Procurement jobs market right now, what skillsets are required and what issues we face in this space as Procurement Professionals.

Martin is also the founder of the Talent Talks Podcast, where he talks with Senior Procurement Pros - give it a listen.

Procurement roles seem to be breaking the norm, with purported salary increases in the UK that are way above the market norm, with, at least from my perspective, more roles than ever before and we, as Procurement Pros should be making the most out of such a rich opportunity to secure improved roles for us.

We covered a lot of different top level topics in this episode and you can skip along to a section that suits you using the timestamps below.

00:00 Intro

1:39 generic procurement job descriptions

3:00 work is needed by hiring managers to recruit for the skills gap

3:36 hybrid working for procurement pros

9:40 the skills shortage on procurement

12:15 salary in the job description

13:10 salaries in procurement

13:55 how to make procurement more interesting to new people

16:00 the entry point to the procurement

24:00 procurement and university

27:00 lack of diversity in the profession