Senior Consultant - Procurement & Value Creation (UK) - Logistics

H&Z Group; City of London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A UK-based consultancy is seeking a Senior Consultant focused on procurement and value creation in logistics. This role involves leading cost improvement initiatives and collaborating with clients to drive procurement excellence. Candidates should have relevant consulting experience, strong analytical skills, and a passion for problem-solving. The position offers a hybrid working model, competitive salary, and career progression opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salary package

Performance-related bonuses

Continuous training and development

Mentoring program

Employee events and company retreats

Pension, travel, medical and dental insurance

Qualifications

• Experience from consulting projects in procurement value optimization or logistics category.
• Demonstrable career experience as a procurement consultant.
• Background of delivering procurement outcomes in logistics.

Responsibilities

• Lead cost reduction and value creation initiatives across logistics spend.
• Develop relationships with logistics stakeholders.
• Produce project updates and reporting dashboards.

Skills

Analytical skills

Project management

Communication and influencing

Team collaboration

Problem-solving

Education

Excellent degree and/or MCIPS qualification

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

Senior Consultant - Procurement & Value Creation (UK) - Logistics

Position

You want to join a consultancy that offers you exciting projects and great development? Are you looking for a place where you can take your career to a higher level? You want to take on responsibility but know that success is being part of a great team?

This is an opportunity to develop your procurement consulting skills, with a particular focus on logistics procurement, as a key player in a small but growing team. As a Senior Consultant, you will work closely with colleagues and clients to deliver procurement excellence projects across the full range of our services. You will take responsibility for leading and delivering cost improvement initiatives across direct and indirect categories, particularly within logistics and related supply chain spend, as well as organizational transformation initiatives for our clients.

Responsibilities

• Lead cost reduction and value creation initiatives across logistics spend
• Actively listen to clients and support their issues
• Proactively engage with, and develop relationships with, logistics stakeholders at different levels as needed
• Actively manage your own work and deliverables in line with project objectives and budgets
• Take responsibility and demonstrate initiative
• Create high-quality outputs
• Communicate clearly and have high professional standards
• Have excellent analytical ability to solve business problems
• Reach solid and justifiable conclusions
• Undertake work in an accurate and robust way, clearly documenting assumptions
• Recognize inconsistencies and logically challenge client information
• Transfer skills, experience, and knowledge to colleagues
• Produce project updates and reporting dashboards
• Input to the development of the business including enhancement of methodologies and operations

Your profile

You have fundamental experience from consulting projects in procurement value optimization or transformation within the logistics category or related subcategories and want to take the next step in your career. You enjoy working with clients to develop solutions for cost reduction in procurement that really create value for the company. You have experience in logistics procurement and a strong understanding of the category. You want to take responsibility, but know that success is through the whole team, and not just the individual.

• An excellent degree and/or MCIPS qualification
• Demonstrable career experience as a procurement consultant with a recognized UK or European consultancy, (essential)
• Background of personally delivering procurement outcomes across the logistics category
• Strong analytical and commercial skills, with attention to detail
• Project management skillset
• Passion for solving complex problems
• Clear understanding of technical issues
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• Great people skills and able to work hard as part of a team
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Fluent in English, with another language as an advantage
• Desire to play a key role in developing a growing procurement consultancy

What do we offer you?

• Working Arrangements & Travel: hybrid working as standard; on-site with clients; London office as primary location
• Challenging projects for a wide range of clients (including in Europe)
• The opportunity to work with a high-performance team of excellent people
• Continuous training and development
• Mentoring program
• Familiar, friendly, and collaborative working atmosphere
• Employee events and company retreats
• Career progression through performance
• Competitive salary package with performance-related bonus
• Pension, travel, medical and dental insurance

About Us

H&Z Management Consulting stands for consulting with head, heart and hand. Our focus is on Strategy & Performance, Procurement, Sustainability and Transformation. H&Z is headquartered in Munich and has offices in London & Vienna. We are part of the H&Z Group, a network of 8 companies and initiatives with over 650 consultants in 14 locations. H&Z is part of the Transformation Alliance — an association of international consulting companies with more than 1,500 employees worldwide. H&Z is recognised with multiple awards and offers extensive training opportunities as well as a collaborative working environment.