Procurement Consultant
Procurement Consultant
Job Description
PwC is one of the world's leading professional services firms. Our Procurement Transformation competency within the Operations practice is focussed on working in partnership with clients to deliver real business transformation across a number of industry sectors.
We are seeking to recruit a number of Procurement professionals to join an already successful team to help deliver transformational projects around the Procurement agenda. Excellent opportunities exist at various levels for individuals who are genuinely interested in expanding their horizons and wish to work in a challenging and leading edge environment.
Requirements
We advise our extensive range of clients to help modernise and effect change in a sustainable way across a variety of issues.
Successful candidates will need to demonstrate a proven track record in some or all of the following:
Procurement Skills / Experience
*Development of procurement vision and strategy
*Strategic sourcing
*Delivering a procurement improvement programme with successful outcomes
*eAuctions
*Purchase to pay process
*Supplier Management and supplier risk management
*Low carbon procurement/sustainable procurement
*Collaborative procurement
*Contract tendering and contract management
*Delivery of e-procurement solutions
*Procurement policy and procedures development
*Transition management from the previous to the new
*Business case development
*Procurement benefit realisation management
*Tax optimised procurement structures.
As well as technical knowledge and experience, you must be able to demonstrate exceptional interpersonal skills, commercial acumen and ability to thrive in a team environment.
General Consulting Skills
*The capacity or ability to lead clients and colleagues whilst exemplifying quality standards and being an ambassador for PwC
*Developing long term relationships with clients
*Has a flexible outlook and is creative to originate ideas
*Ability to advise and interact with all levels of client management and staff
*Delivers projects and consulting solutions with a focus on procurement on time, to budget and exceeding client expectation
*Excellent business analysis and design skills
*Excellent oral communication, written communication and negotiation skills
*Coaching and developing staff
*Understanding our clients business and showing strong commercial acumen
*Presentation, facilitation, process mapping and business modelling
*Demonstrate ability to gain trusted advisor status with clients and develop relationships into longer term partnerships and large scale assignments
*Awareness of the technology issues which arise from procurement matters
*Aptitude for both internal and external networking and for creating leverage from relationships
*International exposure would be beneficial as many of our assignments cross territories
The successful candidate will be educated to Degree level or equivalent. Further personal / industry qualifications such as ACA /CIMA or MBA are valued but not considered essential.
Specific experience and interest in either the public, private, health or finance sectors is considered advantageous.
In particular, proven experience either working within retail, consumer products or financial services, or consulting clients across these sectors will be valuable. 
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