Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a procurement support officer can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a procurement support officer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Procurement support officers assist the staff of the procurement team throughout the procurement processes, making sure all procurement documents are compliant with procedural, technical and legal requirements, and that meetings and other contacts are well organised.

Also known as officer for procurement documentation, procurement clerk, procurement assistant, procurement documentation officer, junior buyer.

Technicians and associate professionals 27 skills on file 5 career moves 4 above 60% overlap Closest: contract manager, 66%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
contract manager 66% covered public procurement specialist 66% covered standalone public buyer 63% covered procurement category speciali… 61% covered procurement department manager 51% covered procurement support offic… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from procurement support officer, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a procurement support officer already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A procurement support officer needs 19 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • draft procurement technical specifications communication, collaboration and creativity
  • perform contract reporting and evaluation information skills
  • apply certification and payment procedures assisting and caring
  • draft tender documentation information skills
  • perform procurement market analysis information skills
  • assess procurement needs communication, collaboration and creativity
  • morality arts and humanities
  • procurement lifecycle business, administration and law
  • use e-procurement working with computers
  • adhere to organisational code of ethics assisting and caring
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a procurement support officer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Procurement support officer is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a procurement support officer’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.