Strategic Sourcing Consultant

3 months ago

London, United Kingdom Aubay UK Full time

**Form of Employment**:Permanent
**Start Date**:Immediate
**Location**:Waterloo, Hybrid (3 days a week in office)

**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, optimizing costs, and fostering effective supplier relationships. This role emphasizes 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.

**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 communicator, 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 organization.
- Self-starter and quick to understand a team’s dynamic.
- Ability to perform in a complex high-tech corporate and multi-cultural environment.
- Analyze and translate complex and Analytical dashboards (e.g., PowerBI) into innovative sourcing solutions.

**Key Accountabilities**
- **Sourcing Strategy** - Develop and execute sourcing strategies that align with business portfolio goals, including cost reduction, quality improvement and supplier diversification.
- **Supplier Management** - Identify, evaluate and manage relationships with suppliers to ensure a reliable and cost-effective strategy. This includes conducting supplier performance reviews.
- **Cost Analysis** - Analyze supplier costs, market trends, and industry benchmarks to identify cost-saving opportunities and make data-driven sourcing decisions.
- **Risk Management** - Assess and mitigate risks, including supplier disruptions, delivery quality issues and compliance concerns.
- **Leadership & Soft Skills** - 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.
- 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.
- **Market Research** - Stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, and supplier developments to make informed sourcing decisions.
- **Continuous Improvement** - 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.

**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
- Opportunity to work directly for the client at the end of 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 challen

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