Senior Consultant – Procurement Transformation

By joining our rapidly growing Business Transformation practice you will serve as a trusted advisor to our clients. You’ll bring your first-hand experience, unique perspectives, and functional knowledge to deliver tailored integrated solutions that solve today's challenges and set the foundation for future success. With support from experienced leaders and a dedicated coach, you will join a collaborative community that invites you to contribute beyond the scope of client delivery.

What You'll Do:

• Support a wide range of Business Transformation projects, encompassing system strategy and selection, process improvement, operations performance enhancement, change management, program and project management, data analytics, and business analysis
• Help organizations identify and analyze business challenges to improve procurement operations and their connection to finance and accounting
• Contribute knowledge and best practices pertaining to critical business processes across the Source-to-Pay lifecycle
• Support client’s Procurement operations assessments and identify transformative change initiatives through detailed procurement analysis including but not limited to: supplier spend, vendor master data, category savings identification, buy-pay channels, process & compliance management
• Drive third party spend analyses and reviews against other internal and external data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities, which get translated into category strategies for cost savings.
• Deliver strategic sourcing events for clients spend categories, overseeing timelines, client and supplier communications, bid responses, and business cases helping align them on outcomes
• Lead workstreams contributing to maturity assessments across procurement capabilities, processes, and general operations
• Build procurement opportunities into prioritization frameworks, transform roadmaps
• Develop data driven business cases for transformational change programs
• Assess and escalate project issues, risks, or conflicts to leadership, proactively suggesting resolutions to ensure smooth project completion
• Support internal initiatives, thought leadership, or other practice building activities

What You'll Bring:

• 6+ years of professional experience within a strategic sourcing & procurement department or 3+ years in professional services consulting is preferred
• Knowledge of the following concepts: Strategic Sourcing, Contract Management, Procure to Pay, Accounts Payable, Process Optimization, Change Management, Performance Improvement, Project Management
• Proficiency using the Microsoft Suite, and prior experience using one or more of the following tools: Tableau, SQL, Alteryx and/or Power BI is preferred 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university, supply chain or procurement designations or external certifications are preferred