Procurement Consultant

Join our rapidly growing Supply Chain and Procurement practice supporting some of the most exciting projects and clients in the UK. Working within a leading employee owned global consultancy, you will be contributing to our teams ambitious growth and supporting the delivery of strategic change across a range of sectors and clients.

Do you want to work for a company whose purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes, and to transform businesses, communities, and opportunities for it's employees? Mott MacDonald is a global consultancy whose people do exactly that.

As a Procurement Consultant you will be be working within the advisory and programme delivery team as a procurement specialist, providing strategic procurement advice to external clients and internally within the wider Mott MacDonald business.

A bit about the team
Our advisory and programme delivery unit delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity from £million's to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting, education and healthcare management. We are currently looking for a Procurement Consultant to join our team.

What you will contribute to the team;

• Managing teams of mixed professional backgrounds, but primarily supply chain managers and technical specialists depending on project requirements,
• Developing bespoke procurement and contract strategies,
• Providing advice to clients on procurement strategy, contract selection, scheduling and resourcing of procurement activities and selection criteria,
• Designing delivery structures and target contract models
• Determining client and supply chain capability and capacity to inform strategy development
• Analysis of current and future suppliers and their resilience
• Establishing supply chain management processes and systems.
• Review of procurement and supply chain systems to provide confidence and insight
• Managing procurement processes, and the delivery of procurement activities, in the capacity of a specialist consultant service to clients. Provide support and advice on complex or challenging processes as required
• Providing oversight and intervention throughout a procurement process to identify and resolve current or future issues
• Embedding sustainability measures throughout the supply chain, including capture and reporting of sustainability performance information.

Required for the position of Strategic Procurement Consultant;

• Strong track record of delivering strategic procurement, experience of infrastructure projects is an advantage
• Providing oversight and intervention throughout a procurement process to identify and resolve current or future issues
• Embedding sustainability measures throughout the supply chain, including capture and reporting of sustainability performance information

Preferred, but not required

• MCIPS qualified or RICS desirable
• Ability to manage internal resource plans, budgets, reports, and undertake other administrative and business administration activities as necessary