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Planning & Demand

Procurement recruitment: hiring for sustainability and responsible sourcing

Sustainability has moved from a corporate add-on to a core procurement responsibility, and it’s quietly rewritten what a strong procurement...

Employer Advice

Pricing recruitment: making your first dedicated pricing hire

In most growing businesses, pricing starts as everyone’s job and no one’s responsibility. Finance owns the margin, sales owns the...

Logistics

Logistics recruitment: how net zero is reshaping the roles you hire

Net zero has moved from a corporate responsibility statement into the operational and commercial detail of running a logistics function....

Logistics

Logistics recruitment: why digital and AI skills now matter

The logistics industry keeps a globalised world functioning. Given the pace of technological change, it's no surprise logistics now sits...

Logistics

Logistics recruitment: operational experience or analytical skill?

It is one of the most common questions we get asked on a logistics brief. Do we hire the person...

Planning & Demand

Demand planning recruitment: Part 3, roles spanning demand and production

This is the final part of a three-part series on what "Demand Planner" actually means across different environments. Part 1...

Planning & Demand

Demand planning recruitment: Part 2, manufacturing and raw materials

This is the second in a three-part series looking at what "Demand Planner" actually means across different environments. Part 1...

Planning & Demand

Demand planning recruitment: Part 1, retail-focused roles

"Demand Planner" covers several genuinely different jobs. This is the first of a three-part series looking at what the role...

Quality

Quality recruitment: Part 3, hiring quality managers and directors

This is the final part of a three-part series on quality recruitment. Part 1 covered quality inspectors, who detect defects....

Quality

Quality recruitment: Part 2, hiring quality engineers

This is the second of a three-part series on quality recruitment. Part 1 covered quality inspectors, whose job is to...

Quality

Quality recruitment: Part 1, hiring quality inspectors

"Quality" covers at least three genuinely different disciplines. This is the first of a three-part series on quality recruitment, looking...

Pricing

Pricing recruitment: hiring for pricing roles that sit at the negotiating table

Not every Pricing Manager negotiates directly with customers. In a lot of businesses, pricing builds the model and hands sales...

Pricing

AI isn’t replacing your pricing team. It’s raising the bar for pricing recruitment.

AI is changing what a strong pricing hire looks like. It's raising the bar, not lowering it.

Pricing

Your pricing job spec is aimed at the wrong thing

A lot of Pricing Manager job specs are still built around a skill that mattered most in 2023: defending a...

Product Development & Innovation

NPD recruitment: what makes a strong new product development hire

As their job title implies, product design engineers add value to a manufacturing business by determining the form, fit and...

Product Development & Innovation

NPD manager recruitment: how the role has evolved in consumer electronics

The NPD Manager job in consumer electronics looks very different to the one that existed fifteen years ago. The title...

Product Development & Innovation

Product development recruitment: why CAD software shouldn’t decide your hire

The most common avoidable mistake we see in product development recruitment is a strong candidate being rejected because they use...

Product Development & Innovation

Innovation recruitment: what GLP-1 drugs mean for food NPD

A pharmaceutical trend has become a food industry reformulation problem, and it is now landing squarely in NPD briefs. Weight...

Sourcing & Procurement

Procurement recruitment: hiring for risk after the Strait of Hormuz crisis

Supply chain risk has moved from a specialist sub-discipline to a core procurement hiring requirement. The Strait of Hormuz crisis...

Sourcing & Procurement

Procurement recruitment: which procurement manager do you actually need?

"Procurement Manager" is one job title covering several genuinely different jobs. Before writing the brief, it's worth establishing which one...

Sourcing & Procurement

Procurement recruitment: what makes a great purchasing professional

Having spent much of an earlier career on the other side of the table, pitching to people with buying power,...

Warehouse Management

Warehouse management recruitment: hiring for safety accountability

Warehouse management is one of the few operational roles where getting it wrong can put someone in hospital, or worse,...

Warehouse Management

Warehouse management recruitment: which warehouse manager do you need?

"Warehouse Manager" is one title covering genuinely different jobs. The person who can run a 400,000 square foot ambient e-commerce...

Warehouse Management

Warehouse management recruitment: how to attract the best-fit candidates

eCommerce continues to evolve at pace, and its impact on warehousing is undeniable. One of the biggest challenges is meeting...