Procurement Manager / Supply Chain Manager / Procurement Officer
What is in the Procurement Consultant job description?
A procurement consultant needs to be a dynamic, client-focused individual with proven experience mainly of all areas of management consultancy services. You’ll be responsible for delivering sourcing initiatives covering the end-to-end sourcing lifecycle and will have experience of working with the main suppliers both in the UK and globally. You’ll need to be confident in engaging with senior stakeholders and be experienced in working as part of a cross-functional team to deliver a range of projects including complex large-scale projects as well as smaller projects as the work covers a mix of both.
What will be your responsibilities?
A Procurement Consultant responsibilities broadly consist of the following things:
- Establishing and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders
- Leading assigned sourcing initiatives, which vary in terms of scope and scale
- Conducting market tenders and managing the evaluation across a cross-functional team to determine supplier selection
- Understanding business requirements and structuring deals to meet those requirements
- Negotiating deals to achieve optimal commercial terms
- Drafting contracts based on standard terms and conditions
- Leading a cross-functional deal teams and liaising with senior stakeholders
- Building relationships with key suppliers
- Maintaining market awareness for assigned category/ies, leveraging experience to determine and define appropriate sourcing strategies
- Adhering to the corporate standards, including using the defined sourcing tools and processes in delivery of sourcing initiatives
- Identifying and implementing opportunities to deliver savings for clients and drive benefits through smarter/efficient sourcing
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What qualifications do you need?
If you’re looking to move in a role of a procurement consultant, you’ll need the following qualifications and skills:
- Educated to university standard or equivalent
- Minimum five years experience in sourcing across specific categories
- Proven capability of delivering deals – from mid to higher levels of complexity and which may be global in nature, including all aspects of the tender process
- Hands-on approach for deal execution, manage deals end to end on their own with minimal oversight on less complex deals
- Highly organised and results-driven, can lead a cross-functional team
- Experienced in negotiations and excellent communication skills
- Ability to structure deals and develop sourcing strategies
- Experience in understanding contracts and ability in contract drafting, with limited requirement for specialist legal support
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, very often to tight deadlines, and deliver results
- Experience in working with market-leading sourcing tools and systems
- Professional team player, motivated, and highly flexible
To start your journey to become a Procurement Consultant, the ideal starting point is the Level 4 Diploma in Procurement and Supply. Once complete, move on to Level 5 and Level 6 qualifications that will take you all the way to MCIPS.
Salary benchmarking: What does a Procurement Consultant get paid?
In the UK, typically a procurement consultant gets paid on average £79, 256 based on the UK Salary Guide 2022.
A procurement consultant sits in the advanced professional sector, the breakdown is as follows
Managerial
- United Kingdom £79, 256
- Australia $214,068
- New Zealand: $174,00
- South Africa: 1.5m ZAR
- MENA: $130,673
- North America: $169,351
- Sub-Saharan Africa $82,964
- Europe: €121,182
Find out more about the salaries procurement and supply professionals get paid in our Salary Guide.