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Occupation

Purchasing managers and directors

Job holders in this group perform occupations not elsewhere classified in Unit Group 1134: Purchasing managers and directors

Based on analysing 2046 job ads this job spends 20.8% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 18 skills asked for, of which 0.6% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £50,000 - £56,246.

Top regions

At the point of upload, job adverts are tagged with a specific location. These locations are standardised to ITL 2 (International Territory Levels) codes. For each ITL region, we divide the proportion of job adverts for an occupation by the proportion for all occupations - this gives us a measure of which regions have proportionally more or less job adverts for each occupation - we call this the "location quotient". We display the ITL regions with the highest location quotients for this occupation.

Shropshire and Staffordshire
Cumbria
London
Surrey, East and West Sussex
West Central Scotland

Top green skills for this occupation

For each job advert we extract the green skills it asks for. We display the 5 most commonly asked for green skills for this occupation.

Lean manufacturing

Found in 27 job ads (11.9%)

Advise on environmental risk management systems

Found in 17 job ads (7.5%)

Implement sustainable procurement

Found in 14 job ads (6.2%)

Assess environmental impact

Found in 12 job ads (5.3%)

Energy efficiency

Found in 12 job ads (5.3%)

Top skills for this occupation

For each job advert we extract the skills it asks for. We display the 5 most commonly asked for skills (green or not) for this occupation.

Developing professional relationships or networks

Found in 1038 job ads (2.9%)

Management and administration

Found in 894 job ads (2.5%)

Project commissioning

Found in 849 job ads (2.4%)

Supplier management

Found in 817 job ads (2.3%)

Negotiating and managing contracts and agreements

Found in 716 job ads (2.0%)

Industries

We extract industry information from job adverts using the way the company is described in the advert. We display the most common industries job adverts in this occupation are linked to.

Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles

Found in 195 job ads (14.3%)

Manufacture of machinery and equipment

Found in 117 job ads (8.6%)

Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding

Found in 114 job ads (8.4%)

Specialised construction activities

Found in 51 job ads (3.8%)

Management consultancy activities (other than financial management)

Found in 47 job ads (3.5%)
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About this analysis

This analysis has been compiled by measuring the greenness of online job adverts. You can read more about the methodology here.