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Job Description

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Senior Procurement Consultant - Spend and Cost Optimization, AI Focus

Function: Procurement Consulting 

Role purpose

We are seeking a Senior Consultant to lead spend diagnostics, strategic sourcing, cost optimization, and value realization initiatives.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Consultant to lead spend diagnostics, strategic sourcing, cost optimization, and value realization initiatives. The role uses procurement expertise, AI, advanced analytics, and market intelligence to identify practical opportunities and deliver sustainable savings across direct and indirect spend.

Key Responsibilities

• Spend and Cost Optimization
• Lead spend diagnostics, baseline development, opportunity assessments, and savings potential analysis across direct and indirect categories.
• Identify and deliver value through strategic sourcing, demand management, specification optimization, supplier consolidation, compliance improvement, value engineering, and working-capital levers.
• Develop category-level strategies using spend data, market intelligence, supplier analysis, cost drivers, should-cost models, and Total Cost of Ownership.
• Establish robust savings validation, governance, implementation tracking, and benefits realization.

• AI-Enabled Spend Intelligence
• Apply AI and advanced analytics to spend classification, data enrichment, price variance analysis, demand leakage detection, supplier consolidation, and savings forecasting.
• Translate procurement requirements into dashboards, analytics products, control towers, and AI-enabled decision support.
• Work with data teams to improve data quality, taxonomy alignment, classification accuracy, and insight reliability.
• Develop repeatable models and accelerators for opportunity identification, category intelligence, and value tracking.

• Client Delivery and Capability Building
• Lead category workshops, executive opportunity validation sessions, sourcing workstreams, and supplier negotiation support.
• Present quantified business cases, delivery roadmaps, risks, and value realization updates to senior stakeholders.
• Manage cross-functional teams and ensure that savings are measurable, practical, sustainable, and aligned with business priorities.
• Support proposals, diagnostics, thought leadership, and development of industry-specific cost optimization solutions.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Procurement, Supply Chain, Engineering, Finance, Economics, Business, Data Analytics, or a related discipline.
• 5 to 8 years of experience in procurement consulting, spend analytics, strategic sourcing, category management, or cost optimization.
• Demonstrated experience identifying and delivering measurable procurement savings.
• Strong competence in spend analysis, sourcing levers, commercial modelling, negotiation support, and benefits tracking.
• Experience working with complex procurement data and visualization or analytics tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
• Exposure to procurement platforms and AI-enabled analytics solutions is preferred.

Core Capabilities

• Spend analytics         
• Cost optimization      
• Strategic sourcing
• Category management          
• Should-cost modelling          
• AI spend intelligence
• Benefits tracking      
• Commercial negotiation       
• Executive storytelling

Key Success Measures

• Validated and realized savings against agreed baselines.
• Improved spend visibility, classification, compliance, and opportunity conversion.
• Faster, higher-quality sourcing and category decisions through analytics and AI.
• Strong client outcomes, reusable intellectual property, and team capability development.

What Success Looks Like

The successful candidate will combine strong procurement domain expertise, consulting leadership, and practical AI adoption to deliver measurable client value, sustainable transformation, and scalable solutions.

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