Shared agenda in procurement and recruitment long overdue

Eden Brown, has warned that unless recruitment agencies, procurement departments and HR directors embrace a unifying and intelligent approach to meeting skills shortages now, it will be impossible to address pressing issues of regulatory compliance, best practice and diversity in the future.

The comments of the company, which recruits for household name organisations of the calibre of Mowlem, Atkins and Save the Children, were presented at the recent April summit of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, where CEO, Ian Wolter, presented a number of considerations concerning current trends in public procurement, use of vendor management services and the way procurement departments typically interface with agencies when brokering staff supply.

Wolter commented:

ìIt is high time to address once and for all the sometimes fractious relationship that can come to exist between hiring managers, procurement teams and agencies. In most cases, improved understanding of respective business drivers of each and better communication between the parties can save time and improve service delivery. Certainly, professional vendor management services can bring all parties together, but greater emphasis on combining the price of business services with supplier best practice and strategic fit is all that is needed to deliver that results all parties are generally looking forî.

Eden Brown was commenting further to the recent launch of its Matrix Managed Service division which delivers vendor management solutions targeted specifically at the needs of the public sector. The company has also won the 2006 Age Positive Recruitment Excellence Award.