About Purcon and our Recruitment Services

'Purcon specialises in strategic Procurement and Supply Chain management recruitment.'

Purcon, a market leader in international executive search and selection, is a cornerstone business within the newly formed Oxinia Group of recruitment companies, each company adding value in fast-growing, high quality niche resourcing areas.

Purcon was founded in 1978 with a distinctive vision to assist clients build and develop their human capital base in the specialist disciplines of Sourcing and Supply Chain Management. The firm’s goals are clear; to create value for our clients through the assessment, recruitment and to provide complementary services to drive innovation and value across Strategic Procurement and Supply Chain Management.

For nearly thirty years, Purcon has led the field. With unstinting determination to exceed client expectations, a culture of colleague and client collaboration and consultant teams with significant prior business careers within Sourcing, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Purcon is uniquely placed to support its clients, large or small, domestic or international.

Recruitment Practices - Supply Chain & Procurement:

Executive Search

With international coverage and highly developed multi-lingual research capability, our search teams specialise only within the Procurement and Supply Chain field, providing unrivalled networks and knowledge of the best talent. Our search practice offers extensive expertise to advise on when to look inside or outside a client’s industry, to search domestic or international and exercises robust processes to maintain the highest levels of client confidentiality.

Professional Selection

Purcon has the most extensive network of contacts across the field of Strategic Sourcing and Supply Chain Management. In our middle management practice, our consultants specialise in vertical markets. These support clients either for single recruitment needs, or campaigns to resource whole teams. The teams utilise the breadth of talent identification tools available including creating advertising, web recruitment and our own unique resource, the Purcon network.

Gap Analysis and Executive Assessment

Identifying the skills within an organisation’s senior management team and aligning competence with changing business priorities within environments of stability or change is fundamental to ensuring business advantage. Our Assessment and Development Practice specialises in assessing not simply Sourcing and Supply Chain capability, but also the breadth of leadership skills required of Executive teams.

Compensation and Benefits Assessment

In a marketplace where the 'War for Talent' has never been more fierce, ensuring remuneration and incentive packages retain the stars of the organisation is key. Our CandB Audit Practice specialises in quarterly published statistics on key salary trends in the Supply Chain marketplace and bespoke benchmarking studies for specific industry groups and individual role profiles.

Interim Executive Resourcing

Our Interim Executive Practice draws on an outstanding network of professional interim executives whose backgrounds span years of industry and consulting experience with the Procurement and Supply Chain field. With knowledge and the flexibility and experience to apply the most relevant, best-practice approach to each and every assignment, they offer expertise in all areas from setting up new organisational teams, through to turnaround or deep category/commodity expertise for specialist projects.