Technology Strategy / Sourcing Consultant in London

Are you passionate about connecting IT success with commercial results? Would you like to work in a high‐performing team where your role involves combining strategy, change, implementation, and technical skills? Our Sourcing, IT Strategy, and Corporate Services capability is growing. We help our clients solve complex IT and sourcing challenges, providing solutions to drive innovation and build efficient organisations. We design integrated and forward‐thinking approaches to build the tech strategies and organisations needed today – and for tomorrow.

Responsibilities

• Design sourcing strategies that balance the appropriate mix of internal and external IT and Business Process services, ensuring organisations benefit from fit‐for‐the‐future services and capabilities.
• Shape and deliver sourcing solutions, business cases and contracts that drive sustainable benefits, including engaging leading market suppliers.
• Shape and deliver global operating and delivery models that enable the exploitation of modern, digital ways of working.
• Lead complex transition programmes and workstreams to transform IT and business services, building new organisations, cultures, supplier relationships and transitioning services to new delivery models.

Hybrid working: our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. The actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on a client site.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Sourcing, Strategy and Transformation within an IT/digital setting.
• Preference for previous consultancy experience.
• Demonstrable experience of contributing to major bid and proposal development (consulting bid or supplier/service bid).
• Broad knowledge of the technology services marketplace and exposure to outsourcing application, infrastructure and workplace services (including cloud, SaaS, AI solutions).
• Ability to define business and IT services, requirements and SLAs.
• Experience across the outsourcing lifecycle (strategy, delivery, transition, service optimisation and remediation), including business cases, cost and commercial models.
• Experience working on shaping effective procurement strategies and robust commercial solutions.
• Expertise in technology delivery disciplines (e.g. IT strategy, IT service management, agile delivery, IT project management).
• At senior grades, consulting experience is essential.

Apply today by completing our online application.

Security clearance: Some UK roles at PA Consulting require a UK security clearance. All PA people undergo background checks and must achieve the Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Some roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting, with a prerequisite of at least 5 years of continuous residency in the UK. If you are unsure, review the UK Government's guidance on security vetting before applying.

Benefits

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare.
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity‐based initiatives.
• Annual performance‐based bonus.
• PA share ownership.
• Tax‐efficient benefits (cycle‐to‐work, give‐as‐you‐earn).

Equality & Diversity Statement

We're committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, political belief, veteran status, or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from under‐represented groups.

Adjustments or Accommodations

Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.

Life at PA

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples' working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose‐led meaningful work. Our purpose guides how we work with clients and our teams, and supports our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world's most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.