Senior Consultant - Procurement & Value Creation (UK)

h&z Unternehmensberatung AG; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading procurement consultancy in London seeks a Senior Consultant to enhance procurement consulting skills and manage cost improvement projects. The ideal candidate will have experience with UK or European consultancies and strong analytical skills. This hybrid role offers challenging projects, continuous training, and a competitive salary package with bonuses.

Benefits

Competitive salary package

Performance related bonus

Pension

Medical and dental insurance

Continuous training and development

Qualifications

• Experience from consulting projects in procurement value optimization or transformation.
• Fluent in English, with another language as an advantage.
• Desire to contribute to developing a growing procurement consultancy.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver cost improvement initiatives.
• Build relationships with clients and understand their issues.
• Create high-quality outputs and manage own work according to project objectives.

Skills

Procurement consulting

Analytical skills

Project management

Communication skills

Teamwork

Education

Excellent degree and/or MCIPS qualification

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

Position

You want to join a consultancy that offers you exciting projects and great development? Are you looking for a place where you can take your career to a higher level? You want to take on responsibility but know that success is being part of a great team? Then we have just the right job opening for you:

SENIOR CONSULTANT - PROCUREMENT & VALUE CREATION (UK)

Your mission

This is an opportunity to develop your procurement consulting skill to the next level as a key player in a small but growing team. As a Senior Consultant, you will work closely with colleagues and clients to deliver procurement excellence projects across the full range of our services. You will take responsibility for leading and delivering cost improvement initiatives across direct and indirect categories, as well as organizational transformation initiatives for our clients.

Responsibilities

• Actively listen to clients and support their issues
• Proactively engage with, and develop relationships with, clients at different levels as needed
• Actively manage your own work and deliverables in line with project objectives and budgets
• Take responsibility and demonstrate initiative
• Create high-quality outputs
• Communicate clearly and have high professional standards
• Have excellent analytical ability to solve business problems
• Reach solid and justifiable conclusions
• Undertake work in an accurate and robust way, clearly documenting assumptions
• Recognize inconsistencies and logically challenge client information
• Transfer skills, experience, and knowledge to colleagues
• Produce project updates and reporting dashboards
• Input to the development of the business including enhancement of methodologies and operations

Your profile

You have fundamental experience from consulting projects in procurement value optimization or transformation and want to take the next step in your career. You enjoy working with clients to develop solutions for cost reduction in procurement that really create value for the company. You want to take responsibility, but know that success is through the whole team, and not just the individual.

Our senior consultants bring a range of skills to the H&Z team. Ideally you will have:

• An excellent degree and/or MCIPS qualification
• Demonstrable career experience as a procurement consultant with a recognized UK or European consultancy (essential)
• Background of personally delivering procurement outcomes across direct and indirect spend areas
• Strong analytical and commercial skills, with attention to detail
• Project management skillset
• Passion for solving complex problems
• Clear understanding of technical issues
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• Great people skills and able to work hard as part of a team
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Fluent in English, with another language as an advantage
• Desire to play a key role in developing a growing procurement consultancy

What do we offer you?

Working Arrangements & Travel

Our teams are hybrid working as standard, often based on-site with clients, so you must be prepared to travel, with the London (Chancery Lane tube station) office being the primary working location.

If you believe you can contribute to our success and enjoy working in a collaborative environment where excellent technical knowledge, consulting methodology and people-skills are highly valued, we offer the opportunity to make your skills and experience count:

• Challenging projects working for a wide range of clients (including in Europe)
• The opportunity to work with a high-performance team of excellent people
• Continuous training and development
• Mentoring program
• Familiar, friendly, and collaborative working atmosphere
• Employee events and company retreats
• Build a career based on progression through performance
• Competitive salary package with performance related bonus
• Pension, travel, medical and dental insurance