Procurement Assistant
Applications are one short Loom video - how to apply is at the bottom, after you've read the role.
First, what you're walking into
Plan@Job didn't start as a product. It started as our own tool. Almost two years ago, our operations team sat down with a team of web developers. One side ran the jobs. The other side turned how we run them into systems. Screen by screen, until the whole operation lived in one place. The operations side is led by Mohamed El Hadri - you might know him as mointhemarket. He's got his part in the platform, and his job in it is the growth.
Ten thousand plus real jobs sit behind it. Small repairs. Larger construction works. All of it run through our own companies. Every screen exists because a live job needed it. Nothing in there is theory. And it sits in the middle of everything built around one keyword: construction arbitrage.
For almost two years it was ours only. And honest truth, it wasn't finished. We still needed other tools around it. Not anymore. Everything is in now. A contractor opens it and builds a whole network from inside it. Subcontractors on one side. Clients on the other.
Now it opens to the public. And there's no checkout page. You don't buy your way in. Access is a referral, and a referral comes after training. Three sessions. One hour each. One per week. That's the product we sell: the training. No training, no referral.
Team led by Mohamed El Hadri (@mointhemarket) · co-founder, Simpled Services · growth partner, Plan@Job
The role
Materials decide whether an operative has a productive day or a wasted one.
You buy what live jobs need, get it to the right place at the right time, and keep the spend where it was supposed to be.
You also own the supplier accounts: prices, terms, returns, and the relationships that get us looked after when something is urgent.
What you'll do
- Order materials against live jobs and get them delivered or collected on time.
- Keep supplier accounts, prices and terms in order, and push for better ones.
- Match invoices to orders, and challenge anything that does not match.
- Keep spend inside the job budget, and say so early when it will not be.
What we look for
- You have bought materials or stock for a business before. Builders merchant experience is a real advantage.
- Good with suppliers on the phone, better with the numbers.
- Organised about delivery dates.
- Fluent English.
Don't send a Loom if
- You would place the order without checking the price.
- Chasing a late delivery all morning would frustrate you out of doing it.
- You want one fixed list to order from. Every job is different.
No hard feelings either way. The seats work because the right people sit in them.
See the platform before the interview
Whatever the seat, the work runs inside Plan@Job - the jobs, the quotes, the subcontractors, the documents and the invoices all sit in one place. Have a look at it before we speak, and come with questions.
See the platformHow to apply
No forms, no CV. One short Loom video, two or three minutes, covering three things:
A little introduction
Who you are, where you're based, what you're doing right now.
What you've done in this kind of work
The jobs you've held, how long you've been at it, and one thing you owned end to end. Honest beats impressive.
Why this role
Why you believe this seat is a good fit for you - after reading this page, not before.
Then send it whichever way suits you, naming this position:
+44 7735 277433 · hadri@simpledservices.co.uk
We watch every video and reply to every single one. If it's a fit, you get the materials and we jump on an interview.
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