Senior Procurement Specialist

About the role

This position owns the full procurement lifecycle for Professional Services and Consulting. You will manage active agreement portfolios, overseeing scope, pricing, amendments, and renewals while coordinating intake requests to deliver a seamless experience for internal stakeholders. You will oversee sourcing cycles, handle tenders, and maintain strong supplier relationships while engaging multiple stakeholders effectively. The role requires strong commercial acumen to read, negotiate, and challenge contracts, including professional services agreements, master supply agreements, and statements of work. You will operate in complex, multi-country settings, influencing senior stakeholders without formal authority. Comfort with ambiguity is required as you build category structures where little or no structure currently exists. You will use analytical skills to build spend baselines, conduct market benchmarking, and construct business cases for sourcing decisions. Clear written and spoken English communication is mandatory, and proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint, is required.

Key facts

What you'll do

Manage end-to-end procurement processes for professional services and consulting categories, ensuring alignment with business objectives and compliance standards.

Oversee active agreement portfolios, including scope management, pricing validation, amendment processing, and renewal coordination to maximize value and mitigate risk.

Coordinate intake requests from internal stakeholders, providing guidance and support to ensure a consistent and efficient procurement experience.

Lead sourcing cycles from initiation to closure, managing tenders, evaluating proposals, and fostering strong, strategic supplier relationships.

Engage multiple stakeholders across diverse functions, influencing decisions and securing buy-in without relying on formal authority.

Build and maintain category structures in environments with minimal existing structure, defining frameworks that bring clarity and consistency.

Analyze spend data to establish baselines, conduct market benchmarking, and develop robust business cases that support strategic sourcing decisions.

Challenge and negotiate complex contracts, including professional services agreements, master supply agreements, and statements of work, to protect organizational interests.

Utilize advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint, to create clear reports, models, and presentations that communicate value and risk.

Leverage LLM tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Copilot to accelerate procurement deliverables, automate routine tasks, and enhance analytical output.

Requirements

Eight years of procurement, strategic sourcing, or category management experience in professional services, consulting, or indirect categories within fast-paced Technology or Digital Consultancy environments is required.

A Bachelor's degree in Business, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Commerce, Finance, or a related field is expected.

A track record of leading sourcing events, managing supplier negotiations, and delivering measurable cost outcomes is necessary.

Strong commercial acumen to read, negotiate, and challenge contracts, including professional services agreements, master supply agreements, and statements of work is required.

Ability to operate in complex, multi-country settings while influencing senior stakeholders without formal authority is essential.

Comfort with ambiguity is required while building category structures where little or no structure exists.

Analytical skills are used to build spend baselines, conduct market benchmarking, and construct business cases for sourcing decisions.

Clear written and spoken English communication is required.

Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint, is required.

Experience using LLM tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Copilot to accelerate procurement deliverables is required.

Nice to have qualifications

CIPS, CPM, or equivalent procurement certification is welcomed but not required.

Experience with procurement platforms or e-sourcing tools that incorporate AI is a plus.

Practical notes

Remote and hybrid work options may apply depending on country regulations.

Typical interview steps

Operations interviews usually include a process scenario, an analytics question, and behavioral rounds. Candidates may be asked to improve a workflow or plan an event. Attention to detail and clear communication are tested throughout. Interviewers often ask how you would fix a process that is failing. Walking through diagnosis, a plan, and measurement is the winning structure.

Good to know

The role focuses on procurement for professional services and consulting categories.

Tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, and LLM assistants are used regularly.

The position contributes to procurement transformation and process improvement initiatives.

Collaboration with Legal, Data Privacy, Cybersecurity, and finance functions is integral.

Questions to ask

Useful questions for the interview: what a typical week looks like, how work is assigned, what tools the team uses, and how feedback works. Asking how the role has changed recently and what the team wishes it had known when joining is also reasonable. Questions about the manager's priorities are especially valued.

Career growth

Operations careers grow from coordinator to manager, director, and chief operating officer roles. Some people specialize in supply chain, facilities, or program management. Success depends on reliability and on improving the systems you own. Operations careers reward reliability and continuous improvement. Operators who quantify the impact of their fixes move into leadership fastest.