Overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing Management Consultancy Sourcing and Supplier Management team, supporting the oversight, optimisation and governance of a diverse consultancy supplier estate.
The role focuses on managing a high volume of consultancy engagements, ensuring suppliers deliver against agreed outcomes while driving commercial value, stakeholder satisfaction and performance improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage a portfolio of consultancy engagements, monitoring delivery, performance and commercial outcomes.
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders to understand priorities, requirements and programme objectives.
- Engage with suppliers to ensure delivery aligns with contractual commitments and business expectations.
- Monitor a varied portfolio of live engagements, from short-term consultancy assignments to strategic programmes.
- Analyse supplier and engagement data to identify trends, risks, opportunities and improvement actions.
- Challenge and influence engagement scope, extensions and future demand.
- Partner with sourcing and procurement colleagues to inform future commercial decisions.
- Ensure contract compliance and understanding of key contractual obligations.
- Identify and resolve performance issues, risks and remediation requirements.
- Maintain accurate governance records, trackers and management information.
- Share insights and best practice across the wider team.
- Support the ongoing development of the supplier management function.
Skills & Experience
Essential
Experience managing supplier relationships, contracts, commercial performance or consultancy engagements.
Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
Commercial mindset with the ability to assess value and improve supplier outcomes.
Excellent organisation skills and ability to manage competing priorities.
Ability to identify trends and translate insight into actions.
Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
Experience working with contracts, statements of work or supplier agreements.
Confident communicator able to engage stakeholders, suppliers and delivery teams.
Experience operating in a fast-paced environment.
Desirable
- Experience within Financial Services or another regulated environment.
- Exposure to sourcing, procurement or category management.
- Experience with supplier, procurement or contract management systems such as Ariba.