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Quotes, purchase orders and suppliers, managed.

Also called: Procurement Virtual Assistant, Purchasing Officer, Buyer

From £3.50 an hour£3.50-17/hr

  • Logistics
  • Construction
  • Manufacturing & wholesale
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  • Works your hours
  • Nigeria hub, on London time or an hour ahead
  • Month to month
What your Procurement Specialist gets doneSample day
  • Reviews purchase requests for completeness, budget code and specificationRequisition to purchase order
  • Writes RFQ packs with clear specificationsSourcing & RFQs
  • Sends onboarding forms and collects tax details, insuranceSupplier onboarding & compliance
  • Chases open POs daily, tracks late and partial deliveriesExpediting & delivery managementDoing
In your tools
  • SAP Business One
  • SAP S/4HANA
  • Odoo
  • QuickBooks
  • Xero
  • Microsoft Excel

Pick the level. See the price.

£7an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
A local mid-level admin£16/hr
A tested Intermediate Procurement Specialist£7/hr
At least 56% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Employer National Insurance, pension and on-costs would add to the local cost.Local pay at the same level, before on-costs and leave.

Runs RFQs up to an agreed value, negotiates within a mandate and onboards suppliers.

  • RFQ pack and quote comparison with recommendation
  • Negotiated price or term improvements with savings recorded
  • Fully onboarded supplier files

2-4 years as a buyer or procurement coordinator, with live experience running RFQs and managing suppliers in an ERP.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management. Prices exclude VAT.

What you hand to your Procurement Specialist

Tasks

  • Requisition to purchase order

    • Reviews purchase requests for completeness, budget code and specification
    • Raises purchase orders in the ERP or procurement system
    • Routes POs for approval under your delegation of authority
    • Confirms supplier acknowledgements and delivery dates

  • Sourcing & RFQs

    • Writes RFQ packs with clear specifications
    • Builds quote comparison sheets
    • Negotiates price and terms within the agreed mandate

  • Supplier onboarding & compliance

    • Sends onboarding forms and collects tax details, insurance
    • Sets up suppliers in the ERP

  • Expediting & delivery management

    • Chases open POs daily, tracks late and partial deliveries
    • Resolves shortages, damage and wrong items with suppliers

  • Three-way match & accounts payable support

    • Matches purchase order, goods receipt and supplier invoice
    • Watches for duplicate invoices, changed bank details and invoices

  • Spend & contract management

    • Tracks spend by supplier and category, contract renewal dates
    • Publishes a monthly spend and savings report reconciled

Tested before you meet them

  1. Written business EnglishAll levels30 min
  2. Quote comparison work sampleAll levels60 min
  3. PO and supplier setup exerciseAll levels40 min
  4. Three-way match and fraud testAll levels30 min
  5. Supplier negotiation role-playIntermediate and up30 min
  6. Sourcing strategy caseExpert and Specialist1.5 hrs

One score on every profileSample shown

86%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern Procurement Specialist is £3.50 an hour, Intermediate £7, Expert £10.50 and Specialist £17, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month. Prices exclude VAT.

Requisition to purchase order, sourcing & rfqs, supplier onboarding & compliance and expediting & delivery management, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Six practical tests, marked by a senior, including written business English, quote comparison work sample and PO and supplier setup exercise. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your Procurement Specialist works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to United Kingdom clients is in Nigeria, on London time or an hour ahead.

Yes, where it helps. Your Procurement Specialist works in the AI tools you already use. They use AI for first drafts and routine work, check every output, and follow your AI policy. You can ask for no AI on any task.

An Intermediate Procurement Specialist runs RFQs up to an agreed value, negotiates within a mandate and onboards suppliers. An Expert Procurement Specialist owns a spend category, negotiates contracts and volume agreements and consolidates suppliers. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every Procurement Specialist is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as NetSuite and SAP Business One, before you meet them.

In week one: access granted to the ERP, procurement or job-costing system, shared drive; approved supplier list, current price lists, contracts and payment terms gathered; and opens PO list, opens requisitions and overdue deliveries reviewed. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called Procurement Virtual Assistant, Purchasing Officer and Buyer. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

Yes. You give them access in your own systems, and you can change or remove it at any time.

They get their own login in each of your systems, never a shared one. Any password that has to be shared goes through your own password manager, never email, chat, code or prompts.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Call us on +61 3 4421 6491, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away, any time.

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