Purchasing or procurement coordinator · Non-sales MHE product support adviser
YOUR RE-ENTRY REPORT
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Put your commercial experience to work beyond sales
Your experience spans buying, finance, staff and marketing, alongside 40 years in MHE. Purchasing coordination offers a way to use your commercial judgement in buying and supplier work. Non-sales MHE product support offers a different purpose for your sector experience and communication skills: helping customers with products rather than winning business. These are two routes to investigate, with different entry tasks to check. Your search should keep four days a week and no sales at its centre, while testing which employers can offer the flexibility and pay you want.
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Andover · 27000
Commercial communication · Experience across business functions
You have reported exposure across several commercial functions, but the depth and outcomes in each are not specified.
01 · YOUR OPTIONS
Career directions worth exploring.
Adjacent
Purchasing or procurement coordinator
This is a practical way to move from winning business towards helping a business buy what it needs. Your buying and finance responsibilities give you a starting point for purchasing coordination, supported by your commercial communication experience.
Transferable
Non-sales MHE product support adviser
This would give your MHE experience a different purpose: helping customers understand products and resolve questions without owning sales targets. It is a more exploratory move, with your communication strength providing the clearest connection.
MORE TO EXPLORE
Other directions your experience could open up.
These are broader possibilities worth exploring. We have not put them through the same market checks as your main Re-entry directions, so treat them as ideas to test, not recommendations.
Operations coordinator
Why explore: Your responsibilities include staff, buying and finance, giving you exposure to several parts of business activity. You also identify talking to people as a strength, which could help coordinate across teams.
What's new: The work would center on schedules, task tracking and delivery follow-up, none of which is described in your evidence.
Try this: Ask someone in an operations coordination role to walk you through a typical week, then compare its scheduling and follow-up tasks with examples from your experience.
Salary check: Ask for actual annual pay at the offered four-day hours and compare it with your £27,000 ideal target.
Check first: Planning and delivery experience is not stated.
Needs market testing.
Worth exploring
MHE product trainer or demonstrator
Why explore: You report 40 years in MHE and list staff among your responsibilities. You also identify talking to people as a strength, which could support explaining products if you have examples of doing so.
What's new: You would need to explain or demonstrate products for learners and possibly assess understanding; training delivery is not shown in your evidence.
Try this: Prepare a short explanation of an MHE product or process for a friend, then ask an experienced trainer what the job requires beyond subject knowledge.
Salary check: Ask for actual annual pay at the offered four-day hours and compare it with your £27,000 ideal target.
Check first: Teaching experience and technical credentials are unknown.
Needs market testing.
Worth exploring
Recruitment coordinator
Why explore: Your responsibilities include staff, and you identify talking to people as a strength. Landing deals also gives a possible communication transfer, though it does not establish hiring experience.
What's new: The work would involve candidate communications and hiring administration; recruitment processes, interview coordination and candidate records are not described.
Try this: Speak with an in-house recruitment coordinator about a typical week and ask which tasks are administrative, candidate-facing or tied to sales targets.
Salary check: Ask for actual annual pay at the offered four-day hours and compare it with your £27,000 ideal target.
Check first: Recruitment roles may include sales targets.
Needs market testing.
Worth exploring
02 · YOUR VALUE & MARKET
Your experience is broader than your job title suggests.
You have reported exposure across several commercial functions, but the depth and outcomes in each are not specified. You have experience connected with bringing commercial agreements to completion, though the deal context and your specific contribution are unknown. You see interpersonal communication as a strength; examples and settings are not supplied.
The right job isn't necessarily the biggest job.
03 · YOUR EARNING POTENTIAL
You told us you're looking for 27000. Most of the live roles we found sit between around £13,900 and £27,100. Use your salary requirement to decide which opportunities are worth pursuing.
You told us you're looking for 27000. Most of the live roles we found sit between around £13,900 and £27,100. Use your salary requirement to decide which opportunities are worth pursuing.
Your experience already proves more than your current job title may suggest.
04 · YOUR SEARCH PACK
Know exactly what to look for.
Commercial communication · Experience across business functions · Compare your own buying examples with the job's purchasing, invoice and supplier tasks, and check which systems you would need to learn. · Ask whether the role can offer four days and, where important to you, hybrid working; advertised part-time hours do not automatically mean four days. · Check actual annual pay for the offered hours, and whether your £27,000 target means actual part-time pay or a full-time-equivalent figure.
Professional services · Local government · Charities · Education · Regulated services · Service operations
03 · WHAT'S CHANGED
Know what matters — and what you can ignore.
WORTH KNOWING
We found 1 live opportunity across 1 of your supported direction. The opportunities are spread across your routes rather than concentrated in one area.
WORTH REFRESHING
Make your buying and supplier examples specific: what you purchased, what you decided and how you checked the result. Compare the purchasing, invoice and product-support systems in target adverts with the tools you already know.
SAFE TO IGNORE
Your previous job title does not define the full range of work you can target.
06 · YOUR MARKET EVIDENCE
Where your experience meets today's market.
Your experience is already translating into live roles across Purchasing or procurement coordinator, Non-sales MHE product support adviser. Your Commercial communication, Experience across business functions experience gives you evidence to build from.
The main practical test is whether an employer can offer four days, no sales duties and acceptable actual annual pay. Part-time or hybrid wording alone does not establish that the job fits the working week you want.
SALARY
You told us you're looking for 27000. Most of the live roles we found sit between around £13,900 and £27,100. Use your salary requirement to decide which opportunities are worth pursuing.
DEMAND
We found 1 live opportunity across 1 of your supported direction. The opportunities are spread across your routes rather than concentrated in one area.
COMPETITION
Your MHE knowledge and responsibilities across buying, finance, staff and marketing offer a more distinctive case than a generic sales CV. Show the relevant decisions and responsibilities for each vacancy rather than relying on years of experience alone.
04 · YOUR SMARTEST NEXT MOVE
Use the live opportunities to test the strongest routes now.
Start with the live opportunities: Finance Assistant - Purchasing.
05 · YOUR QUESTION
The question you wanted answered.
Start with a focused search for four-day buying-support and non-sales MHE product-support work. Use specific examples of what you bought, the decisions you made and how you dealt with people; those examples will tell an employer more than the title Sales. Before spending time on an application, ask about four-day hours, any sales targets, office attendance and actual annual pay. The listings below are lower-pay alternatives, so consider them only if the particular work and pay trade-off appeal to you. Neither is an established match to your full brief. You can keep exploring these career directions while looking for a better combination of conditions.
LIVE OPPORTUNITIES
Roles worth investigating for your
Re-entry.
We checked current roles against your experience, priorities and the career directions in this report.
LIVE ROLES · VERIFIED BEFORE YOUR REPORT IS SENT
Listing to verify
Finance Administrator and Purchase Ledger - Hampshire County Council
Corrigenda
Up to £24,000 pro rata, subject to knowledge and experience
Part-time, 24 hours per week; work pattern to be agreed
Listing to verify. This purchase-ledger option offers a way to investigate finance administration, with training on the employer's systems. It is a lower-pay alternative: the advertised ceiling is £24,000 pro rata for a 24-hour role, and actual annual pay needs confirming. Establish that the vacancy is still open and the schedule can suit four days before investing time in it. Check before applying: Confirm the vacancy is still open with the employer. Check your Excel and Microsoft Office skills against the stated essential requirement. Confirm the agreed 24-hour schedule, Winchester commute and actual pay for those hours.
View role →Verified live opportunity
Finance Assistant - Purchasing
The Hurst School
£26,018 to £27,111 full-time equivalent; actual £13,880 to £14,463 for the advertised term-time pattern
Permanent, part-time; 22.5 hours per week, term-time plus inset days and one additional week; daily schedule not stated
This is a concrete example of purchasing-finance work whose duties you can compare with your buying and finance experience. Treat it as a lower-pay alternative, not a match to your £27,000 ideal: actual annual pay is £13,880 to £14,463. It would be worth an application only if that pay and the term-time pattern appeal to you. Check before applying: Confirm the vacancy remains open before applying; the advertised closing date is November 5, 2026, and it may close early. Check that 22.5 hours and the term-time schedule suit you; this is not a four-day role as stated. Review the full duties and required systems, and compare the actual annual pay with your ideal target.
View role →09 · DO THIS THIS WEEK
Turn the report into movement.
1. Review the 1 live opportunities. 2. Tailor your CV around the evidence each role asks for. 3. Apply selectively where the remaining gaps are learnable rather than hard blockers.
YOUR RE-ENTRY PLAN
Keep this bit.
Purchasing or procurement coordinator
Commercial communication · Experience across business functions
Commercial communication
Make your buying and supplier examples specific: what you purchased, what you decided and how you checked the result. Compare the purchasing, invoice and product-support systems in target adverts with the tools you already know.