Market Reports

These articles are written by members of the Jigsaw Search team and have been designed to highlight topics of debate within the industry and how they may affect you as a candidate or potential employer within this space.

If you would like to discuss them or any other aspects of the market please don’t hesitate to contact us. 

Market Update 2012 
As part of Jigsaw Search’s ongoing commitment to providing our wide network of contacts with the most useful, accurate and up to date market information, we have collated the following data for your interest to give you some insights into the market.....  

Head of Procurement Market Update - January 2012 
Reporting to the CEO, CFO or Supply Chain Director, the Head of Procurement role is an integral part of the Executive leadership team and is responsible for directing a strategic Procurement organisation.....  

NSW Interim & Contract Market Update - December 2011 
Increasingly within Procurement, contract and interim assignments are highly becoming favourable for both employees and organisations. Employees hired on a contract or interim basis, as the names suggest, are hired for a limited or defined period of time.....  

Market Update Adelaide - November 2011 
There is an apparent skills shortage in this area so Jigsaw is working hard to identify candidates who will relocate both within Australia and from overseas.....  

Should Labour be Categorised as Indirect Spend? - November 2011 
A lot of time is spent by CPO’s discussing the high level structure of a procurement framework but little time seems to be devoted to the categorisation of spend, especially with regards to how critical that spend may be to the ongoing success of the organisation.....  

Category Manager - Corporate Services Market Data - Market Snapshot October 2011 
A true Category Manager organises the resources of the procurement team to focus externally onto the supply markets of an organisation in order to fully leverage purchasing decisions..... 

National Procurement Manager Market Data - Market Snapshot October 2011 
The local in-country manager of an organisations procurement function within a business. Reporting to a Global/Regional CPO, CFO or GM Shared Services..... 

Procurement Analysts Market Data - Market Snapshot October 2011 
Focused analytical capability based within the procurement function providing key data to assist sourcing and process re-engineering projects..... 

FMCG Category Management Market Data - Market Snapshot October 2011 
There is both high demand and an ongoing skills shortage of high calibre true Category Managers across all specialist areas of procurement within the FMCG sector.... 

FMCG Market Data - Market Snapshot July 2011 
Using Jigsaw Search’s ‘Real Time Salary Guide’, the following information has been taken from 1095 candidates currently working in the FMCG industry..... 

Category Management - Marketing - Market Snapshot July 2011
The management of end-to-end procurement for a given portfolio of spend. This end-to-end process incorporates stakeholder engagement, business diagnostic, strategy development, strategy implementation....

Category Management IT - Market Snapshot June 2011 
This end-to-end process incorporates stakeholder engagement, business diagnostic, strategy development, strategy implementation, contract management, vendor management, supplier development....

CPO/Director/Head of Procurement - Market Snapshot June 2011 
Reporting to the CEO, CFO or Supply Chain Director, the Head of Procurement role is an integral part of the Executive leadership team and is responsible for directing a strategic Procurement organisation....

Corporate Services Category Management - Market Snapshot June 2011
General indirect category management within a medium to large corporate environment, spend may include items such as couriers, stationery, uniforms, catering, business machines....  

NSW Procurement & Supply Chain Recruitment Market 2009-2011
Now quickly fading from memory, 2009 was a year of restraint in the job market with several businesses aggressively managing their cost base through the organisation-wide cutting of head count....

A Review of the Permanent Procurement Market in Victoria 2009-2011 
2009 tested both businesses and individuals to deliver much more than they had in previous years in a growing economy. Most organisations found 2009 to be a tough year...

A Review of the Procurement Contracting Market in Victoria 2009-2011
Jigsaw Search (VIC) saw the contract market drop in 2010 and the permanent market increase in comparison to 2009. As a result of the GFC, 2009 was a more risk averse year for recruiting...

CIPSA Internship Programme 2010
At the end of 2010 Jigsaw Search worked in partnership with CIPSA to launch the inaugural CIPSA Internship Programme, the not for profit project...

Category Management within Australia
Category Management is a strategic role that exists only within a mature procurement framework that has a large spend profile consisting of multiple and often complex portfolios... 

Which Industry Suits You?
When considering their next roles candidates quite rightly also contemplate changing not just the type of role, but also the industry in which they will be working...

Controlling Indirect Spend
As a general observation from talking to professionals in the market and from numerous articles, seminars and reports around the subject it is estimated that procurement departments across all industries actually only probably control around 60% of their company’s spend... 

SRM - Easier When You Know How!
Like all business processes SRM is not a definitive science, but a collection of activities that have been bundled together...