New Platform Launch for SupplyChainRecruit.com

New Platform Launch for SupplyChainRecruit.com

SupplyChainRecruit.com, the UK’s leading purchasing and supply chain job site, has announced the imminent launch of its latest platform. Steve Crosbie, Operations Director at SupplyChainRecruit.com explains their market position and strategy.

Our success can be attributed to a number of factors, including:

- First to Market. This will be our third platform evolution since we launched in 2001. We were the first purchasing and supply chain niche job site in the market and we have come an incredibly long way during the last six years, and I am pleased to say, have established ourselves as the leading job site in the niche purchasing and supply chain sector by a long margin.

- Market Dominance. Whilst the purchasing and supply chain sector is not on the scale of some other horizontal market sectors, like IT, Accounting, or Sales, it is never-the-less a well defined and very active market that adapts well to online recruitment processes.

SupplyChainRecruit.com carries more than 2000 purchasing and supply chain jobs at any time and processes around 150,000 job searches each month.

Market Scope. There are a handful of other job boards operating in the Supply Chain space, but we are the only site to cover the entire supply chain spectrum. This means that specialist recruiters can work with SupplyChainRecruit.com for all of their assignments. Including forecasting, logistics, planning, purchasing / procurement, inventory management, warehousing, distribution, and broader supply chain roles.

Brand Awareness. If you are in any doubt about our brand awareness then go to the worlds largest search engine, Google, and type in the terms purchasing jobs or supply chain jobs. Yes, we are number one in the free listings. We like to think of ourselves as “wholesalers” of purchasing and supply chain candidates. We operate as the route to market for purchasing and supply chain candidates, and the route to candidates for recruiters. In addition to online marketing you will also find our presence in the broadsheets, such as The Telegraph, and in the specialist purchasing and supply printed media. But our marketing strategy is definitely built around online communication and that is where we focus our attention.

Independence. SupplyChainRecruit.com is an independent business with no links to any other recruitment business. Six years ago SupplyChainRecruit.com operated as a division of a recruitment business. However, it quickly became apparent that this would never be accepted by the recruiters operating in the purchasing and supply chain sector. SupplyChainRecruit.com was subsequently sold as an independent business and since that time has gone from strength to strength. A couple of other entrants into the market appear to be attempting to defy the markets apparent dislike for such links. For example Purchasing Job Board . com describes, on its website, its connection to purchasing and supply chain recruiter MSSL , and according to Companies House forthcoming job board Supply Chain Online (Ashenhurst Media Ltd) shares a Director with recruiter Supply Chain Selection Ltd. They also share the same business address, and the domain Supply Chain Online is registered to Supply Chain Selection according to the “Whois” directory.

We will see how the market feels about this. In reality, as was the case for our business some years ago, the job board businesses will probably operate quite independently from their recruitment businesses. But there is always a lingering suspicion of a conflict of interests.

International Scope. The new SupplyChainRecruit.com platform will bring many new features to the site, together with an entirely new look and feel. SupplyChainRecruit.com is utilised by nearly every specialist UK recruiter operating within the purchasing and supply chain field, as well as the major generalist recruiters like Hays, Hudson, Michael Page, Jonathan Wren etc.

One of the key competitive advantages of SupplyChainRecruit.com is its international scope.

The purchasing and supply chain recruitment market is truly an international one, and the opportunities on mainland Europe are immense. Countries like Germany, France, and the Netherlands have very advanced purchasing and supply chain sectors, yet the purchasing and supply chain recruitment markets in these countries are retarded in comparison to the UK. There are a few specialist recruiters on the continent, but there is real scope for UK recruiters to grow internationally.

Many of the large multinationals employers recruit internationally across borders. They don’t care which country the candidate comes from, and in the majority of cases the business language will be English. So you can manage your relationship with these companies in English, and you can deal with candidates in English as the employers will usually insist that candidates are fluent in English. We are not proud of the UK’s general lack of language skills, but we have a clear advantage in international recruitment because we share the global business language.

One further point to consider. Some of the top purchasing and supply chain business schools are based on continental Europe. You do not have to search far to reach many outstanding and highly qualified professionals.

At SupplyChainRecruit.com we provide the online capability for recruiters to operate internationally. Jobs can be posted, and candidates searched, on a global business. The new platform launch will see a dramatic increase in our international development. We already advertise jobs in UK pounds, Euros and US Dollars. The new platform will add Australian Dollars and Canadian Dollars to that list.

Pricing. Our pricing model is based upon low cost and high volume. Many of the recruiters that we support have been with us for many years, and in that time we been able to maintain very modest price movements. Our dominance in the market enables us to offer extremely competitive terms to an extensive client base. Getting to a point of profitability was an up-hill struggle. But having arrived, we are now keen to ensure that the recruiters that supported us enjoy the benefits of our market position.


We are very excited about the approaching launch of our new platform as we know that it will bring tremendous additional functionality and value to our client’s. We are however remaining purposely vague about the launch date. Firstly because we want to retain some flexibility in completing the final bits of functionality, and secondly because we know that the competitors are “watching this space”! There is one further bit to the jigsaw, but we will keep that under wraps for now!

New features will include:

- Multi-level account structure for large clients
- Features recruiters area
- Recruiter profiles
- Recruiter directory
- Enhanced CV search facility

However, that is just the tip of the iceberg.

Contact Steve Crosbie
http://www.supplychainrecruit.com/info/contact.asp

supply chain jobs, purchasing jobs, procurement jobs, buying jobs, buyer jobs, warehouse jobs, distribution jobs, logistics jobs
supply chain recruitment, purchasing recruitment, procurement recruitment, buyer recruitment, warehouse recruitment, dustribution recruitment, logistics recruitment
purchasing, supply chain, supply chain management, logistics, warehouse, warehousing, inventory, distribution, buyer, buying

www.supplychainrecruit.com
www.Jobs4Purchasing.com
www.Jobs4Logistics.com
www.Jobs4Warehousing.com
www.Jobs4SupplyChain.com
and
www.SupplyChainAgenda.com