Principal Consultant Supply Chain & Procurement in Glasgow

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance - we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

About The Business Unit

Mott MacDonald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors. We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients’ key challenges, combining our world-leading project expertise with unrivalled programme delivery capabilities and advisory services.

Overview Of The Role

Join our rapidly growing Supply Chain and Procurement practice supporting some of the most exciting projects with UK and international clients. Working within a leading employee-owned global consultancy, you will be contributing to our teams ambitious growth and supporting the delivery of strategic change across a range of sectors and clients. As a Strategic Procurement Consultant, you will be working within the advisory and programme delivery unit providing strategic procurement advice to external clients across defence, water, energy and transportation sectors, and internally within the wider Mott MacDonald business.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• Developing bespoke procurement and contract strategies
• Providing commercial advice to clients and colleagues in respect to optimising commercial engagement with supply chains
• Providing advice to clients on procurement strategy, market engagement, contract selection, scheduling and resourcing of procurement activities and selection criteria
• Designing delivery structures and target contract models
• Determining client and supply chain capability and capacity to inform strategy development
• Analysis of current and future suppliers and their resilience
• Establishing supply chain management processes and systems
• Review of procurement and supply chain systems to provide confidence and insight
• Managing procurement processes, and the delivery of procurement activities, in the capacity of a specialist consultant service to clients
• Providing support and advice on complex or challenging processes as required
• Providing oversight and intervention throughout a procurement process to identify and resolve current or future issues
• Embedding sustainability measures throughout the supply chain, including capture and reporting of sustainability performance information

Candidate specification

Essential:

• Strong track record of delivering strategic procurement, experience of infrastructure projects is an advantage
• Knowledge of UK public sector procurement regulations and contracts
• Track record of delivering social value

Desirable:

• MCIPS qualified or RICS desirable
• Ability to manage internal resource plans, budgets, reports, and undertake other administrative and business administration activities as necessary

Agile working

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• Health and wellbeing: Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues, health cash plan, access to Peppy, and a variety of wellbeing support.
• Financial wellbeing: Employee pension contributions, life assurance, income protection scheme, and flexible benefits.
• Lifestyle: A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, with the ability to buy or sell leave.
• Enhanced family and carers leave: Enhanced family leave policies and additional leave for significant caring responsibilities.
• Learning and development: Opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.
• Networks, communities, and social outcomes: Join a wide range of groups and make a difference within our communities.

Location(s): London, GB; Manchester, GB; Glasgow, GB; Croydon, GB

Contract Type: Permanent

Work Pattern: Full Time

Market: Various

Discipline: Consultancy

Job Ref: 15686