Role accountabilities:
- Leadership and management of client projects through their lifecycle, from initial pitch through to solution design and activity planning, successful delivery, and knowledge capture
- Diagnosing and tackling complex procurement and supply chain-related business problems, across large-scale consulting engagements, designing and implementing solutions that can demonstrate benefits and value delivered
- Leading and delivering complex procurement services, from initial development of sourcing strategy through the entire contract lifecycle to tender and contract award.
- Analysing markets, trends, risks and opportunities, to provide fresh insights to clients
- Communicating potential solutions and outcomes to clients and stakeholders
- Continuous development of our supply chain services and sector-specific offerings
Qualifications Experience:
You will join an entrepreneurial team that is growing fast. It s important that you can understand the challenges and opportunities facing supply chains and combine a commercial and strategic mindset with strong relationship skills. You will be a problem solving and outcome driven individual, with strong collaboration skills, who can quickly understand clients business needs and deliver solutions.
Whilst potential is more important to us than experience, you will also have at least some of the following key skills and expertise:
- Demonstrable track record of delivery of supply chain or procurement projects in a relevant sector (Public Sector, Infrastructure, Energy, Utilities, Oil Gas,Transportation, Healthcare, Defence, Property, Financial Services, etc), in one or more of capital delivery; operations maintenance;
- Demonstrable track record of leadership and delivery of major procurement and supply chain services across the procurement and supply chain lifecycle, from strategic sourcing and category management to tender and award;
- Demonstrable relevant experience in market engagement (including shaping and development); supplier relationship management; procurement governance and compliance; procurement and supply chain sustainability; organisational design; process improvement
- Experience in designing, leading and delivering multiple-stream projects to a high quality from understanding client need to project completion.
- Knowledge and understanding of key skills and components that make a successful management consultant
- Demonstrate understanding of how management consulting projects are typically delivered - from project start mobilisation, through to delivering clients requirements and expectations
- Knowledge and appreciation of identifying new opportunities and supporting proposals to secure work
- Knowledge of the application of best practice in aspects of supply chain management, which could include:
- Strategic sourcing and category management
- Operational procurement delivery
- Commercial and Contract management
- Supplier performance and relationship management
- Risk management and mitigation strategies
- Procurement governance compliance - policy process development
- Supply/demand planning
- Product management
- Supply chain reporting, data analytics and digitisation
- Demonstrable ability to understand and assess business problems, and build and communicate practical improvement recommendations
- A leader, with strong coaching and leadership skills and the ability to create diverse teams, bringing your team with you
- Credible and able to perform effectively with senior leaders
- Ability to carry out market, trend and/or business/supply chain performance analysis
- Project leadership including management of other professional team members, or comparable in an industry role
- Desirable MCIPS, or interest in working towards MCIPS
