Strategic Sourcing Consultant

2 weeks ago

London Area, United Kingdom Aubay UK Full time

Strategic Sourcing CONSULTANT


Form of Employment: Permanent

Start Date: Immediate

Location: Waterloo, Hybrid (2-3 Days Onsite)

Reference ID: 461




Role Summary

Aubay is looking for a Strategic Sourcing Consultant, to join our client's team within their Information and Digital Engineering department. In this role, you will serve as a vital connection between internal stakeholders and third-party suppliers. Your primary responsibilities will include developing and executing sourcing strategies aligned with business objectives, optimising costs, and fostering effective supplier relationships. This role emphasises the importance of leadership, communication, and analytical skills to drive strategic sourcing initiatives and ensure supplier performance meets our standards.


You will be acting as the co-pilot to the IT Strategic Sourcing Manager. This is a collective effort to drive a competitive workforce that aligns the strategic goals – ensuring that we optimise IT costs with a sharp focus on competitiveness and performance while maintaining our commitment to excellence.


This role will require availability to commute to the London office 3X per week and occasional trips to The Netherlands


Required Skills and Experience

  • Experience working in a consultancy.
  • Understanding of end-to-end IT procurement processes - bid preparation, tender management, pre-sales
  • Experience with RFI/RFP/RFQs
  • Key stakeholder management
  • Excellent analytical, negotiation and communication skills.
  • Strong communication, presentation and negotiation skills up to senior management level, to get buy-in and commitment from both internal and external stakeholders.
  • Build and maintain a strong network of Senior Stakeholders across the organisation.
  • Self-starter and quick to understand a team’s dynamic.
  • Ability to perform in a complex high-tech corporate and multi-cultural environment.

Analyse and translate complex and Analytical dashboards in PowerBI into innovative sourcing solutions.


Key Accountabilities

  • Develop and execute sourcing strategies that align with business portfolio goals, including cost reduction, quality improvement and supplier diversification.
  • Identify, evaluate and manage relationships with suppliers to ensure a reliable and cost-effective strategy.
  • Conduct a comprehensive analysis of supplier costs, market trends, and industry benchmarks.
  • Identify opportunities for cost savings and efficiency improvements.
  • Utilise data-driven insights to inform strategic sourcing decisions and actions.
  • Report on the tangible outcomes and value generated from sourcing initiatives.
  • Assess and mitigate risks, including supplier disruptions, delivery quality issues and compliance concerns.
  • Manage a complex network of senior stakeholders, providing guidance, coaching and support to achieve defined business goals.
  • Liaise with Contracting & Procurement counterparts to agree changes in sourcing process, suppliers, performance evaluation and supporting rate-card negotiations. no
  • Proactively lead day-to-day engagements with IT business stakeholders (including owning agenda of interactions), follow-through and track all actions and communications for full transparency, to ensure agile and seamless execution of IT sourcing models.
  • Stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, and supplier developments to make informed sourcing decisions.
  • Implement process improvements to enhance sourcing efficiency and effectiveness, such as implementing supplier ecosystems, and innovative initiatives, assessments, benchmarks and market scans based on data analytics.



About Aubay UK – Ahead of Innovation

Aubay UK is a recognised InSourcing Partner for client-side deployment delivered across London. Our team, based in Canary Wharf, specialises in hiring IT professionals within London’s Energy and FinTech sectors, helping our clients to expand their operations with top-tier talent who are experts in their fields. We work exclusively with clients who are globally recognized as Energy Super Majors/Financial Services and innovative FinTech players.


Aubay UK is the most recently started branch of Aubay Group www.aubay.com. Aubay Group is an international Digital Services Company, listed on a Euronext Stock Exchange, who have been operating for 21 years in the European market and working alongside some of the biggest names in the Banking, Finance, Insurance, Energy, IT/Digital, Manufacturing, Transport and Telecoms sectors. With over 7,800 employees across 7 countries and 16 offices in England, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, Aubay Group generated revenues of €513 million in 2022.


What Aubay UK Offers

At Aubay UK, people are at the heart of our business. We offer a competitive remuneration package which includes a range of benefits. You will receive continuous support from our dedicated team of Talent Acquisition Specialists who will support your career development and success during your assignment with our client. Other benefits include:

25 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays

Pension scheme

Work-from-home opportunities

Access to Udemy training platform and conferences

Perkbox employee discount scheme

Discount on winter sports holidays at www.aero1607.com

Opportunity to work directly for the client at the end of the assignment


Our Client

Our client is one of the Super Major global energy companies with around 84,000 employees across 70+ countries who are working to power progress through cleaner energy solutions.

Specialties: Upstream/Downstream, Bio-Fuels, Integrated Gas, New Energies, Chemicals, Energy and Trading.


You will have the opportunity to work in a challenging but rewarding environment that is fast-paced and changing fundamentally and work towards transforming the business of a Super Major energy company to meet the ambition to be a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050, whilst delivering a world-class business case that has a strong societal license to operate. In your role, you will be expected to enact change and deliver value globally across business lines and geographies.


This role requires you to be based in the UK and have the right to work in the UK.

Aubay UK is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All aspects of employment decisions will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs.

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