Procurement and Supply - Job Description

Procurement managers, also known as purchasing managers, work for large companies and are in charge of managing and coordinating procurement agents, buyers or purchasing agents, as well as working on the most complex purchases for the company. They research, evaluate and buy products for companies to either resell to customers or use in their everyday operations.

Procurement managers are the people in charge of determining what products get to store shelves, in catalogues, and online. They do the footwork, the research and create the deals to buy large quantities of products for their companies, and then sell them to customers, or use them to create new materials that they then sell to customers. This could be wholesale and retail equipment, farm goods, or paper and industrial goods.