SOP Snr Associate in London

From day one, you work with our firm's best talent and have access to Kearney's global experts. This allows you to give it all while having your Kearney team to back you up anytime! We prefer teamwork over flying solo. Our collaborative culture is core to what we do. You will work alongside Kearney and client team members as of day 1 to jointly solve our clients' most important issues to get them ready to take on tomorrow's world.

We are the #1 in Strategic Operations and Procurement. We help our clients tap into the value of their supply base to gain a competitive advantage in costs, innovation, and risk management. The global Procurement Team looks back on three decades of heritage and shaping the function. We are the market and thought leader in this space. We have continuously innovated to keep us ahead of the competition, starting with the 7-step process in the late 80s to the Purchasing Chessboard, the gold standard framework for selecting category strategies in the mid 2000s to many other tools and frameworks like Collaborative Optimization, ROSMA, disruptive procurement and Pearl Labx just to name a few more. Currently, many clients come to us to discuss Sustainable and Responsible Sourcing or how to Digitize Procurement.

Personal Development

Kearney allows you to push yourself to achieve your dreams while staying true to who you are. As a Strategy Consultant at Kearney, you will build teams, ideas and futures. We encourage you to be yourself and give you the freedom to contribute creatively while you also take the time to pursue your passions. The rich, diverse backgrounds of our consultants have a direct impact on what our teams accomplish every day—a dynamic that has defined our culture for more than 95 years. From day one, you will be an integral part of this.

International Training

Training is a crucial component of your introduction to the firm. A variety of opportunities, often led by our own best and brightest consultants, from managers to partners, will expand your consulting knowledge and allow you to explore new areas of interest. Our training approach also lets you meet and network with colleagues from across the region for an enriching experience. We take a tailored approach to performance management and career advancement, so your role grows as rapidly as your performance warrants. You will benefit from our global scale and capability, as well as from the speed and nimbleness of our close-knit teams.

Typical responsibilities include:

• Recommending and implementing actions that you create with colleagues
• Leading Client and analyst teams
• Gather, validate, compile and analyze relevant data from a variety of data sources across the client organization
• Conduct material group and procurement market analyses
• Assess procurement functions, processes and practices and help transform the organization
• Manage and drive the process of category strategy development and sourcing in collaboration with client team members and business stakeholders
• Engage with suppliers and support clients in preparing supplier negotiations
• Train client procurement professionals

We will nurture your entrepreneurial spirit with hands-on experience that will positively influence the rest of your career.

What We Seek

We look for talented problem-solvers with intellectual curiosity who are ready to be active members of a client team. Senior consultants are typically involved in every phase of a sourcing project, from pre-proposal research to final implementation. The following qualifications are preferred:

• A proven record of academic excellence with excellent analytical and communication skills
• An innovative and collaborative approach to problem-solving and developing solutions
• Relevant professional experience (5+ years), preferably as a supply management consultant or as a procurement professional having proven experience in e.g. category management, SRM, game theory, design-for-value, -(not exhaustive)
• Eagerness to collaborate, coach, mentor, and help others grow professionally

What Makes Us Unique

Kearney is the only global partnership that works with the world's largest companies and is small enough to feel like a family. Kearney combines a global top-performing organization with down-to-earth office culture. As a global consulting partnership, our people make us who we are. We're individuals who take as much joy from those we work with as the work itself. Driven to be the difference between a big idea and making it happen, we help our clients breakthrough. As said before, the #1 in Procurement consulting. We serve more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500 with genuine commitment to client success. We work in a collegial way.

Equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination

Kearney prides itself on providing a culture where our employees belong and thrive equally, which means our people feel comfort, confidence, and joy as they do great things for our firm, our colleagues, and our clients. That's why Kearney is committed to building a diverse workforce and inclusive environment. Kearney is an equal opportunity employer; we recruit, hire, train, promote, develop, and provide other conditions of employment without regard to a person's gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race or ethnicity, religion, age, national origin, disability, marital status, pregnancy status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other differences consistent with applicable laws. This includes providing reasonable accommodation for disabilities or religious beliefs and practices. We encourage everyone to apply, including those who may not feel historically represented in consulting.

Language Requirements

Must be fluent in written and spoken English.