ROLE DESCRIPTION
SENIOR CONSULTANT
As a Senior Consultant specialising in Procurement and Strategic Sourcing, you will join a CIPS award winning organisation, where you will lead and deliver high-impact value creation programmes for clients across a range of industries and spend categories.
You will take on responsibility to free capacity for the Principal Procurement Specialist Lead.
- Full-time
- Mid-Senior Level
- From £72k + up to 20% annual performance related bonus
- 25 days holiday
- Hybrid working
- Health insurance
- Death in service
HOW YOU'LL MAKE AN IMPACT
Deliver Measurable Client Outcomes
- Lead end-to-end procurement and strategic sourcing workstreams
- Deliver cost savings, cash benefits, and commercial improvements
- Plan and run sourcing activity, from requests for information to supplier selection
- Identify opportunities across cost reduction, demand management, supplier optimisation, and contract improvement
- Baseline benefits and support tracking and realisation
Data-Driven Insight & Problem Solving
- Identify opportunities through spend analysis, market assessment, and stakeholder engagement
- Use data to test assumptions and challenge thinking
- Build evidence-based recommendations that stand up to scrutiny
- Present findings in a clear and practical way
- Turn insight into actions clients can deliver
Strengthen Client Relationships
- Lead day-to-day engagement with client stakeholders
- Support decisions through clear options and trade-offs
- Address delivery issues early and propose solutions
- Maintain alignment through clear, consistent communication
- Build trust through delivery and follow-through
Drive Innovation and Adaptability
- Apply proven approaches to new and unfamiliar problems
- Adapt tools and methods to fit the client context
- Bring external insight and market awareness into the work
- Support client response to changing conditions with practical actions
Contribute to Business Growth
- Support proposals, pitches, and client discussions
- Shape solutions that are clear, credible, and deliverable
- Identify opportunities to extend or deepen client engagements
- Contribute to repeat work through delivery
ABOUT YOU (MUST HAVES)
- You have at least five years experience delivering work in consultancy or a comparable role
- Proven commercial acumen and the ability to drive cost-reduction initiatives and negotiations
- Experience across multiple spend categories and complex stakeholder environments
- Very competent excel skills with the ability to turn data into insights.
- Ability to apply technical procurement knowledge
STAND OUT EXPERTISE
(DESIRABLE)
- MBA or advanced commercial qualification
- CIPS qualification (Level 4–6) or equivalent preferred
- Advanced use of data and analysis tools such as Excel, Power BI, Tableau, SQL, or Python
- Experience supporting bids, proposals, or commercial shaping
- Experience developing or improving internal methods, tools, or playbooks
- Ability to work cross sector