Expert Project Leader - Procurement

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Practice Area Profile
The Operations Practice (OPS) Area is one of BCG's largest functional practices. We help our clients create competitive advantage by enhancing their performance and building strategic capabilities. BCG s expertise in Operations covers the following areas - supply chain management, procurement, manufacturing, service operations, cost efficiency, operational transformation, research & product development, program and project management, all with a strong digital and analytics overlay.
What You'll Do
As an Expert Project Leader within BCG's Operations Practice, you will be a core member of our practice working alongside some of the world's top minds in industry - delivering innovative procurement solutions. This role will support clients in enhancing their procurement value delivery through improving category strategies, supplier partnerships, negotiations, and sourcing approaches, as well as leveraging digital and new ways of working to increase procurement value add. You will contribute to client cases, workshops and proposals spending much of your time onsite during staffing assignments to understand client requirements.
Expert Project Leaders are given end-to-end responsibility for large and complex "modules" within a BCG project and may lead small but high-impact teams to drive results for our clients. They work closely with clients to understand their issues, create strategies for change, and win buy-in for their recommendations, while also collaborating with colleagues on complex client issues.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Bring high quality expertise in the Procurement topic that delivers value to client organisations across a variety of industries. Our procurement practice has a strong footprint in resources and retail.
• Support clients in enhancing their procurement value delivery through improving category strategies, supplier partnerships, negotiations and sourcing events; designing and standing up best-in-class procurement organisations, incl. organisational design, process improvements, capability building; identify and implement digital roadmaps for procurement, including automation, advanced analytics and Agile.
• Execute client work in a case team either as an advisor, individual contributor, or case delivery lead
• Provide mentorship and support to more junior consultants to ensure continuous individual development
• Contribute to proposals together with the senior leadership of the OPS Practice
• Build awareness for BCG's Procurement competence across a variety of industry communities

Our Expert Consulting Track (ECT) The Expert Consulting Track (ECT) is vital to BCG's ability to successfully meet our clients' demand for deep expertise and advanced technical capabilities. Experts deliver next-level impact for BCG's most complex and cutting-edge client challenges. Experts focus on developing BCG's thought leadership, commercial capabilities, and intellectual property assets; and their work is essential to our delivery model. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team to bring the 'best of BCG' to our clients, Experts come from diverse backgrounds, with expertise often gained outside of BCG in industry, academia, or specialized consulting.
What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

• You ideally have a minimum of 10 years of work experience in a top level advisory or consulting firm, or experience gained in Procurement at a market leading company or a combination of both
• It is essential that you have deep experience in the field of Procurement and have achieved significant and proven results at prior clients
• Experience in digital procurement solutions is desirable
• A track record of project/team leadership and related achievements
• A track record of driving and delivering high-value work, (eg, owning the process, content and day-to-day client or team interactions)
• Strong analytical skills and a high capacity for conceptual thinking. Must be able to thrive in a hypothesis-based environment where inductive rather than deductive reasoning is the norm
• An ability to think creatively, be adaptable

LOCATION
Ideally Perth, Melbourne, or Sydney directly working with our clients to understand their requirements and partner with them to drive business value.
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