Sourcing and Procurement Consultant - Defence

PA Consulting; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join PA Consulting as a Sourcing and Procurement Consultant in Defence, where you'll tackle complex procurement challenges. You will lead strategic sourcing initiatives, enhancing value for both public and private sector clients, using your expertise to manage stakeholder relationships and drive effective sourcing processes. This role offers a dynamic environment with the opportunity for hybrid working, contributing to societal impact through your work.

Benefits

Health and lifestyle perks

25 days annual leave plus bonus day

Generous company pension scheme

Annual performance-based bonus

PA share ownership

Qualifications

• Experience in strategic sourcing and/or procurement.
• Leadership in change or transformation initiatives.
• Ability to think creatively to solve procurement challenges.

Responsibilities

• Work on significant sourcing challenges for public/private sector.
• Provide strategic advice on procurement and technology integration.
• Support clients in achieving business outcomes through innovative sourcing.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Procurement

Stakeholder management

Change management

Interpersonal skills

Education

CIPS, MCIPS, IACCM or equivalent sourcing qualifications

Job description

Sourcing and Procurement Consultant - Defence

Join to apply for the Sourcing and Procurement Consultant - Defence role at PA Consulting

Sourcing and Procurement Consultant - Defence

Join to apply for the Sourcing and Procurement Consultant - Defence role at PA Consulting

Company Description

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

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

• Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on a client site.
• Travel to client site will be necessary as and when the client requires
• Please note that PA Consulting operates a hybrid working policy. There will be an expectation for you to work from either a PA office and/or client location 2/3 x per week (based on the assumption of a 5 day working week).
• Location - London or Bristol
• Application deadline: ASAP
  
  
  

Are you driven by a desire to help organisations to achieve value for money through better procurement and strategic sourcing arrangements?

Our Sourcing, IT Strategy & Corporate Services capability are looking for a Sourcing and Procurement Consultant - Defence. You will have the opportunity to:

• Work on some of the most significant and complex sourcing challenges facing public and private sector organisations in the UK and internationally.
• Provide a range of strategic advice from transforming organisations’ sourcing teams, delivering complex multi-billion-pound procurements, and advising clients on how to embrace technology to accelerate sourcing processes and harness data.
• Support your clients to achieve their desired business outcomes by harnessing deep technical knowledge and applying innovative approaches to sourcing and procurement.
  
  
  

Qualifications

• Experience in strategic sourcing and/or procurement.
• For Principal Consultant roles prior consulting experience is essential
• Evidence of leading and supporting change or transformation initiatives in multifaceted stakeholder environments.
• Strong delivery experience from working on procurement/commercial and strategic sourcing projects from buyer and/or supplier perspectives.
• Expertise in navigating complex procurement processes within the Defence sector to deliver successful value for money outcomes.
• Experience in managing supplier service delivery arrangements or improving supplier and sourcing relationships.
• A proven ability to think creatively and commercially to solve complex procurement and sourcing challenges.
• Excellent interpersonal and team working skills that translate to exceptional stakeholder management.
• Strong self-starter and growth mindset with excellent communication skills.
• CIPS, MCIPS, IACCM or equivalent sourcing qualifications are preferable.
• Prior consulting experience in a sourcing context is preferable.
  
  
  

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application

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 for you and your family
• 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)
  
  
  

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on [e-mail]

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  Business Consulting and Services

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