Occupation Atlasprocurement category specialist
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/0561328b-875b-4ae2-9ba1-9af9049aef01
procurement category specialist
Procurement category specialists are experts in specific markets and contract types and provide advanced knowledge of a particular category of supplies, services or works. They help internal or external clients to increase value for money and end users' satisfaction through their advanced knowledge of the suppliers and their offering.
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Job Zone
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- 4
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Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
CERConventional · Enterprising · Realistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- C Conventional5.65
- E Enterprising5.09
- R Realistic3.50
- S Social1.93
- I Investigative1.82
- A Artistic1.19
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products (13-1023.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (16)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- adapt to changing situations
- address problems critically
- assess procurement needs
- category specific expertise
- develop performance orientation in public administration
- draft procurement technical specifications
- implement procurement of innovation
- implement sustainable procurement
- keep up-to-date with regulations
- maintain relationship with suppliers
- manage contracts
- manage procurement planning
- monitor developments in field of expertise
- perform procurement market analysis
- procurement lifecycle
- supplier management
Optional (18)
- adhere to organisational code of ethics
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- communication principles
- cooperate with colleagues
- develop procurement strategy
- draft tender documentation
- e-procurement
- evaluate tender
- implement risk management in procurement
- international business
- manage relationships with stakeholders
- morality
- organisational structure
- procurement legislation
- quantity surveying
- teamwork principles
- use different communication channels
- use e-procurement
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
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