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About the Role

Serve as a trusted advisor to clients by delivering tailored, integrated solutions that solve challenges and set the foundation for future success within a rapidly growing Business Transformation practice.

Responsibilities

Support a wide range of Procurement Transformation projects, encompassing Source-to-Pay technology strategy, purchasing process improvement, operations performance enhancement, change management, program and project management, AI and data analytics.
Deliver strategic sourcing events for client spend categories by analyzing spend, developing strategies, conducting RFPs, evaluating bid responses, building business cases, and winning stakeholder alignment.
Play a critical role supporting and leading transportation sourcing engagements, including carrier bid processes and freight market analysis.
Guide client freight strategy, including mode optimization, fuel cost reduction, in-source vs. outsource, and logistics cost reduction initiatives.
Help organizations identify and analyze business challenges to improve procurement operations and their connection to finance and accounting.
Contribute knowledge and best practices pertaining to critical business processes across the Source-to-Pay lifecycle.
Support client's Procurement operations assessments and identify transformative change initiatives through detailed procurement analysis.
Drive third-party spend analyses and reviews against other internal and external data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities, which are translated into category strategies for cost savings.
Lead workstreams contributing to maturity assessments across procurement capabilities, processes, and general operations.
Build procurement opportunities into prioritization frameworks and transformation roadmaps.
Develop data-driven business cases for transformational change programs.
Assess and escalate project issues, risks, or conflicts to leadership, proactively suggesting resolutions to ensure smooth project completion.
Support internal initiatives, thought leadership, or other practice-building activities.

Requirements

3+ years of professional services consulting experience required; Big 4 or top-tier consulting firm background preferred.
Additional industry experience within a strategic sourcing or procurement function is a strong plus.
Direct experience executing transportation and logistics sourcing, either in consulting or in industry, including one or more of the following: FTL, LTL, intermodal, freight brokerage, or managed transportation services.
Familiarity with transportation market dynamics, carrier management, freight cost benchmarking, and bid process design and execution.
Knowledge of Strategic Sourcing, Category Management, Contract Management, Procure-to-Pay Process, Item Cost Analysis, Supply Chain Risk Management, Basic Financial Modeling, Accounts Payable, Process Optimization, Change Management, Performance Improvement, Project Management.
Comfort and effectiveness leading moderately complex client working sessions and presentations.
Foundational client relationship management skills with a strong desire to be part of the sales process.
Proficiency using the Microsoft Suite, and ideally prior experience using Lucid Software and/or Power BI.
Comfort with AI: Demonstrated ability to responsibly explore and adopt firm-approved AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot) to enhance productivity and innovation.
Continuous Learning Mindset: Openness to learning and applying emerging technologies, including AI and automation, in alignment with firm policies and client standards.

Skills

Procurement Transformation
Source-to-Pay technology strategy
Purchasing process improvement
Operations performance enhancement
Change management
Program and project management
AI and data analytics
Strategic sourcing
Spend analysis
RFP development
Business case development
Stakeholder alignment
Transportation and logistics sourcing
FTL
LTL
Freight brokerage
Managed transportation services
Carrier bid processes
Freight market analysis
Freight strategy
Mode optimization
Fuel cost reduction
Logistics cost reduction
Procurement operations
Finance and accounting integration
Source-to-Pay lifecycle
Procurement operations assessments
Supplier spend analysis
Vendor master data management
Category savings identification
Buy-pay channel analysis
Process and compliance management
Third-party spend analysis
Category strategy development
Procurement capability assessment
Procurement process assessment
Procurement operations assessment
Prioritization frameworks
Transformation roadmaps
Data-driven business cases
Risk assessment
Issue resolution
Thought leadership
Microsoft Suite
Lucid Software
Power BI
AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot)
Emerging technologies
Automation

Experience Level

3+ years of professional services consulting experience

Education Level

Bachelor's degree from an accredited university
Supply chain, procurement, or logistics designations or external certifications are preferred