Sourcing and Procurement Senior Consultant - Energy & Utilities

Astro Studios, Inc.; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm is seeking a Sourcing and Procurement Senior Consultant in London. This role involves tackling significant sourcing challenges, providing strategic advice, and leveraging deep technical knowledge to enhance procurement processes. Candidates should have extensive experience in procurement and strong stakeholder management skills, alongside relevant qualifications.

Benefits

Health and lifestyle perks with private healthcare

25 days annual leave plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve

Generous company pension scheme

Community and charity initiatives involvement

Annual performance-based bonus

PA share ownership

Tax efficient benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in strategic sourcing and procurement, including operating model design.
• Strong delivery experience on procurement/commercial projects.
• Excellent interpersonal and team working skills.

Responsibilities

• Work on complex sourcing challenges for public and private sector organisations.
• Provide strategic advice on transforming sourcing teams and procurement processes.
• Support clients to achieve desired business outcomes through innovative sourcing.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Procurement process design

Supply chain management

Stakeholder management

Category management

Cost optimisation

Interpersonal skills

Creative problem solving

Education

CIPS, MCIPS, IACCM or equivalent sourcing qualifications

Job description

Sourcing and Procurement Senior Consultant - Energy & Utilities

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.

• 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 a minimum of2 x per week (based on the assumption of a 5 day working week).
• Location - London

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 aSourcing and Procurement Consultant. 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, including operating model design, procurement process design and supply chain management.
• For Principal Consultant roles prior consulting experience is essential
• Evidence of leading and supporting change ortransformation 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 asset intensive sectors, including, Transport & Infrastructure or Energy & Utilities to deliver successful value for money outcomes.
• Experience in strategic sourcing and/or procurement across works, goods and services is desirable, including procurement of construction works, engineering services and other relevant procurement activities within asset-intensive industries.
• Experience in managing supplier service delivery arrangements or improving supplier and sourcing relationships.
• Experience in category management, cost optimisation and spend management.
• 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.

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.

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