Purchasing Manager Question:

► What have been the biggest achievements in your procurement career?
► What do you like most and least about procurement?
► Give an example of a time when you have had a difficult experience with a stakeholder and how you resolved it.
► What tools and techniques would you use to implement a company-wide operational change driven by a procurement need to save money? And how would you get buy-in from stakeholders?
► What has been the hardest lesson you have learnt in procurement?
► Give an example when your perseverance resulted in a win for you and your organisation?
► Who has had the biggest influence of your career? And how have they helped shape you?
► What ongoing education are you undertaking?
► What would you like to be doing in two or three years? And what is your career goal in 10 years' time?
► What attracted you to apply for this role and to work this company?