Commercial & Procurement Specialist - Defence & Security - Consultant

PA Consulting; Bagstone; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and lifestyle perks

25 days annual leave

Generous pension scheme

Community initiatives

Annual performance-based bonus

PA share ownership

Cycle to work

Give as you earn

Job summary

PA Consulting is seeking a Commercial & Procurement Specialist to lead major procurements, design contracting strategies and advise on best market practices. The role involves engaging with clients across Defence, transport, public sector, and major projects, delivering value through robust procurement and commercial strategies.

Hybrid UK-based role requiring collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, strong procurement capabilities, and proven track record in delivering complex procurement

Qualifications

• Experience executing major procurements and contracting strategies.
• Ability design and implement procurement and contracting approaches.
• Strong stakeholder management across client organisations.

Responsibilities

• Designing and running major procurements; advise on procurement strategy to improve client business.
• Project manage procurement processes: supplier engagement, tender evaluation, and deal closure.
• Help transition from legacy frameworks to new contracts and manage major contracts with change.

Skills

Procurement strategy

Tender management

Commercial advisory

Supplier engagement

Job description

Company Description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Job Description

Do you feel the desire to join a highly motivated team that aims to create positive and lasting changes in the world?

Our Major Programme Services (MPS) team is looking for an exceptional Commercial & Procurement Specialist.

As part of PA's Delivery stream, PA's Centre of Excellence for all project, programme, and portfolio capability, MPS works across Defence, major projects & infrastructure, transport, and public sector in client-facing roles on long-term assignments. Having experienced repeated successes in delivering value and excellence for our clients, most of whom are within daily commuting range from home, we are in high demand and are now expanding further across the UK.

As a Procurement & Commercial Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in executing complex projects across various industries. Your expertise and strategic thinking will be crucial in delivering successful outcomes for our clients.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to work in a collaborative and innovative environment, shaping projects that drive meaningful impact.

Location

Hybrid working - our approach is to be on client site 2 days per week.

You will have opportunity to:

• Designing and running major procurements: helping clients to understand their requirement and how to leverage major procurements to improve their business; creating the procurement and contracting strategy, creating commercial agreements and advising on how drive the best from the market.
• Project managing and providing expert advice on the process of procurement: managing supplier engagement; the evaluation of tenders; helping to negotiate and close deals; and making the business case to launch procurements and award agreements.
• Advising and putting the systems and processes in place to successfully transition from legacy to new frameworks and contracts, and to properly manage major contracts including the associated business change.
• Reviewing client procurement and commercial team performance and identifying and leading programmes to restructure the function and improve capability. This may include category management, supplier relationship management and sustainable supply chains.
• Support to renegotiate and improve agreements or help resolve major disputes.
• Providing effective commercial management for PA's largest complex assignments, often with large collaborative teams.

Additional Information

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples' working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world's most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.

Find out more about Life at PA here .

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)