Schools Purchasing Officers

Schools purchasing may be about to change.  I noticed an advert in our local paper for "Procurement officers" to work as part of a larger team across a number of schools.

For those of us in smaller companies with limited resources (like us) this could be a very good thing as we'll be able to access the market better.  For larger companies it may very well be a bit of a disaster as these people work to get better deals because they know what other schools have done plus they may delay procurement to make bigger purchasing packages.

So if they do it right - a very good thing but if they do it badly, another layer of administration that adds nothing to the value chain.  Let's hope they are a good thing.

The salary by the way was £25K - I hope that's enough.