Functional Consultant / Manager - Procurement Technology

William Scott Associates; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Management Consultancy in the UK seeks a talented individual in Procurement Technology to join their team. You will play a pivotal role in driving strategies for large-scale transformations while providing consultancy and technical expertise in technology solutions. Required skills include experience with Procurement implementations and communications to C-Suite stakeholders. The role offers flexible working options including home and office arrangements.

Qualifications

• Experience in Procurement implementations required.
• Proven track record in driving business strategy.
• Ability to present to stakeholders including C-Suite.

Responsibilities

• Drive business strategy through Procurement Solution Architectures.
• Ensure high-quality delivery of programs to clients.
• Support sales teams with expertise in bids.

Skills

Procurement technology solutions

Excellent listening skills

Consultancy skills

Sales support

Communication to C-Suite

Tools

Coupa

Ivalua

Oracle

GEP

ServiceNow

Agentic AI

Job description

Our client is a highly successful Management Consultancy and Digital practice, working with their clients to help them understand how technology can drive business performance. As such, we’re looking for outstanding technologists to join and develop their Procurement Technology delivery capability, driving strategy through large-scale Procurement transformation.

You will be part of a developing team that will become their ‘go to’ for Procurement Technology, you will play a key role in the growing of propositions to sell and deliver large programs. You’ll have excellent listening skills, and a proven track record of helping clients reach their desired outcomes. On the technical side, you’ll need a thorough understanding of Procurement technology solutions.

What will you be doing?

We are seeking a talented individual with experience of Procurement implementations and detailed working knowledge of Source to Pay software including one or more of the following: Coupa, Ivalua, Oracle, GEP, ZIP, ORO, ServiceNow and Jaegger.

While predominantly focusing on ensuring successful delivery of programmes you will play an important role in several key areas, including:

• Procurement Solution Architectures – driving business strategy that meets the relevant client business, technology and regulatory requirements
• Delivery Excellence – achievement of high-quality outcomes in the delivery of products or services to our clients.
• Practice Development – Ensuring that the team continues to deliver value to our clients through understanding leading practice developments, potential disruptors to the market in the shape of new technologies (including Agentic AI, intake and orchestration) and helping to ensure the team are sufficiently equipped to support clients
• Sales Support – Providing your experience and knowledge into the sales cycle ensuring clients are set up for success

What will you need to do it?

• Providing expert consultancy to assist clients in defining their overall technology strategy, designs and delivery programmes whilst effectively managing the commercial impacts
• Whole-stack reference models and architectures across application, data and technical domains, divisional / group specialists, as appropriate.
• Defining Baseline and Target states alongside the migration steps from one to the other
• Run workshops relevant to your work stream or project goals, provide advice on set up and options, document working with lead architect
• Supporting clients with their Infrastructure and provisioning strategies
• Provide functional expertise to clients for the elements owned during the implementation
• Proactively supporting the sales teams to provide expertise in bids to help clients to get more out of their existing Digital channels identifying the best of breed technologies and services based on client needs, constraints and strategies
• Presenting and communicating with confidence to stakeholders up to C-Suite level

Our Locations

With 20 sites across the UK, our client can potentially facilitate office work, working from home, flexible hours, and part-time options.