Supply Chain & Operations - Commercial Procurement Salaried Partner jobs at Ey in United Kingdom, London

What we look for

We’re interested in professionals with a genuine creative vision and the confidence to make it happen. You can expect plenty of autonomy in this role, so we look for people who will take initiative and seek out opportunities to improve our current relationships and processes. If you’re serious about auditing and ready to take on some of our clients’ most complex issues, this role is for you.

We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Please note:Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness.We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world.

Manager, Supply Chain and Operations, UK

Be it in the public sector as governments build new supply chains to respond to the changing needs of citizens, or in the private sector as national and international markets face unparalleled disruption.

Leverage and expand your experience in innovation to be at the forefront of shaping leading practices. Develop and impart your experience on those you work with to help create the next generation of leaders.

As a Manager, you’ll balance internal and external responsibilities, comprising client, business development support, operational, team and personal development.

Focus on our clients

• Build, maintain and strengthen relationships and be a trusted advisor in at least one area of supply chain i.e., operations, planning, procurement, manufacturing etc
• Be adept at problem-solving with clients and project teams, leveraging your skills to help manage projects to completion
• Develop experience and relationships across several clients over time, often as part of a team from different parts of EY’s world, whilst being able to maintain focus on current project delivery

• Contribute to the development of proposals to showcase some of our leading practices
• Engage the market with thought leadership and public profile, and contribute to enhancing our methodologies
• Work across our internal sector and account field of play teams to develop your network, bringing our expertise to bear

Drive operational excellence

• Support successful delivery of projects and workstreams as forecast to time and budget
• Help ensure the quality of our delivery exceeds client expectations by effectively managing activities and deliverables within your remit

• Manage and nurture those who work with you and undertake career counselling responsibilities
• Increasingly become an inclusive leader capable of forming diverse high performing teams that are enjoyable to be part of and help our consultant and client teams to develop and realise their potential

Typically, Managers bring practical experience from either a professional services or industry background where you have developed your technical and management experience.

Our Managers are required to possess good experience in at least one of the technical skills below and some experience across one or multiple others:

Technical Skill

• Supply Chain TransformationEnd to end supply chain transformation, experience working on multiple transformation projects with considerable scope and scale. Demonstrable knowledge of working as part of the transformation including the design, setup and delivery including people, process and technological change.

• Digital Supply Chain / Supply Chain TechnologyApplying and implementing Supply Chain Technology, such as planning, manufacturing and procurement systems. Including next-generation supply chain technologies such as Robotic Process Automation, cognitive automation and AI

• Supply Chain Planning

• Commercial & ProcurementStrategic, operational or transactional procurement across the purchasing lifecycle. This includes procurement strategy, operating model, category management, strategic sourcing, contract management or the deployment of procurement technology and analytics. Specific focus areas are: managing complex end to end procurements; driving cost out of organisation’s third party spend and conducting contract audits; and leveraging enterprise-level technology to standardise, automate and digitise various aspects of supply chain. Experience in deploying SAP Ariba is also being sought.

• Operating Model TransformationE2E operating model experience covering Op Model strategy and vision, design, transformation and implementation. Whether from an external consulting perspective or within an industry role.

• Supply Chain StrategyOperating Model design, segmentation strategy and inventory optimisation. Understanding the issues across the end-to-end supply chain, and potential solutions to improve performance.

Qualifications
Many of our Managers have professional body membership or qualifications e.g. Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS), or International Association of Commercial & Contract Management (IACCM) or equivalent, but if you feel that you have skills which you believe would be additive to our team, please apply.

We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions.

Plus, we offer:

You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Please note:Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness.We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world.

What we look for

We’re interested in professionals with a genuine creative vision and the confidence to make it happen. You can expect plenty of autonomy in this role, so we look for people who will take initiative and seek out opportunities to improve our current relationships and processes. If you’re serious about auditing and ready to take on some of our clients’ most complex issues, this role is for you.

We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

Continuous learning:You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Please note:Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness.We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world.

What we look for

We’re interested in professionals with a genuine creative vision and the confidence to make it happen. You can expect plenty of autonomy in this role, so we look for people who will take initiative and seek out opportunities to improve our current relationships and processes. If you’re serious about auditing and ready to take on some of our clients’ most complex issues, this role is for you.

We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

Continuous learning:You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Please note:Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness.We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world.

Senior Consultant, Supply Chain and Operations, UK

Be it in the public sector as governments build new supply chains to respond to the changing needs of citizens, or in the private sector as national and international markets face unparalleled disruption.

Leverage and expand your experience in commercial and procurement innovation to be at the forefront of shaping leading practices. Develop and impart your experience on those you work with to help create the next generation of leaders.

Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Internet Of Things (IOT) and Block Chain; as well as leading procurement (Source to Pay) technology.

As a Senior Consultant, you’ll balance internal and external responsibilities, comprising client, business development support, operational and personal development.

Focus on our clients

• Build maintain and strengthen relationships and be a trusted advisor in at least one form of supply chain i.e., operations, planning, procurement, manufacturing etc.
• Contribute/lead a workstream within a project and be capable of managing activity to complete deliverables within your remit
• Contribute and be an active member of a core project team, often working with others from different parts of EY’s world

• Contribute to the development of proposals to showcase some of our leading practices
• Engage the market with thought leadership and public profile, and contribute to enhancing our methodologies
• Work across our internal sector and account field of play teams to develop your network, bringing our commercial and procurement expertise to bear

Support operational excellence

• Support successful delivery of projects by managing your work products and contribution as forecast to time and budget
• Help ensure the quality of our delivery exceeds client expectations by effectively managing activities within your remit

Personal and people development

• Maintain a personal development program to continually enhance your technical and consulting skills
• Increasingly grow your people leadership experience through leading as part of client and internal teams

Typically, Senior Consultants bring practical experience from either a professional services or industry background where you have developed your commercial and procurement experience.

Your Commercial and Procurement experience will be valued across a several sectors, with a key focus on Consumer Products & Retail, Energy & Resources, Government & Infrastructure, Health & Life Sciences, Private & National and Telecommunication, Media & Entertainment.

Our Senior Consultants are required to possess some experience in at least one of the technical skills below and some exposure across one or multiple others:

• Supply Chain Strategy
• Operating Model design, segmentation strategy and inventory optimisation. Understanding the issues across the end to end supply chain, and potential solutions to improve performance.
• Supply Chain Transformation
• Being part of one or many significant supply chain transformation projects with considerable scope and scale. Demonstrable knowledge of working as part of the transformation including the design, setup and delivery including people, process and technological change.
• Digital Supply Chain
• Applying or implementing next-generation supply chain technologies such as Robotic Process Automation, cognitive automation and AI, Internet-of-Things (IOT), Blockchain and Big Data analytics.
• Supply Chain Analytics
• Developing detailed supply chain analytics to deliver enhanced end to end SC visibility (e.g. creating and connecting supply chain models to customer and pricing analytics).
• Supply Chain Planning Functional
• Demand and supply planning, sales & operations planning, segmentation strategy, inventory optimisation and/or production scheduling.
• Supply Chain Planning with Technology
• Knowledge of one of the following technologies (either from a Business Integrator, Systems Integrator or Client role): OMP, Kinaxis, o9, Aera, SAP IBP, Blue Yonder, and SAP S/4 HANA.
• Logistics
• Network design and network modelling; understanding of global customs and trade; warehouse design and optimisation; 3PL and 4PL or Control Tower management.
• Manufacturing
• Manufacturing optimisation both in terms of plant level performance improvement (both technology and people) or holistic manufacturing network optimisation.
• Procurement
• Strategic, operational or transactional procurement across the buying lifecycle including procurement strategy, Operating Model, category management, strategic sourcing or deployment of procurement data, technology and analytics. This may be leveraging enterprise-level technology to standardise, automate and digitise various aspects of supply chain. Specific experience in deploying SAP Ariba is being sought.
• Service and Asset Management Transformation
• Understanding and knowledge of end to end asset management lifecycle, including Field force, service and asset management transformation. The asset management lifecycle covers strategy, budgeting, sourcing, warehousing and logistics, inventory management, repairs, disposals and asset accounting processes.

Qualifications

Our Senior Consultants have excellent verbal and written communication skills and are able to engage effectively with peers and senior stakeholders. They are proactive and energetic, self-starters, with innovative qualities that enable high quality work to be delivered often in relatively short timeframes. Some of our Senior Consultants may have professional body membership or qualifications e.g. Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS), or International Association of Commercial & Contract Management (IACCM) or equivalent, but if you feel that you have skills which you believe would be additive to our team, please apply.

We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Please note:Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness.We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world.

London, UK

Our Banking and Payments clients are facing unprecedented levels of change, driven by global geopolitics, the macro economy, threat of new entrants and emerging technology.

Our Transformation team works collaboratively with a wide range of multi-disciplinary teams from across our global firm. We assemble engagement teams from clients based on their specific needs; this means you will work extensively with colleagues from other Consulting teams such as Technology Consulting, Risk Consulting, People Consulting, as well as our other service lines (Strategy & Transactions, Assurance and Tax).

The types of engagement are hugely varied. While not an exhaustive list, you can expect to help shape and deliver:

• Post AI business model redesign
• Target Operating Model design and execution
• Process re-engineering
• Cost reduction
• Modernisation
• Post integration implementation
• Regulatory transformation
• Controls transformation

Clients expect the very latest ways of working, delivery methods and appropriate automation and AI-enablement to be infused into everything that we do, in order to deliver the best possible client outcomes at the right price point.

We execute transformation at enterprise level, as well as in the lines of business and functions, including:

• Lending
• Home buying
• Saving and investing
• Contact Centre and channels
• Client onboarding
• Complaints handling
• Operations
• Risk Management
• Legal and Compliance (including financial crime)
• Technology
• Finance

This is an opportunity to play a senior leadership role in the next phase of our growth. You will be highly visible to our most senior clients and have a prominent role internally as we continue to grow this part of our business.

Your key responsibilities

• Relationship development; including the development of long-term trusted advisor relationships with our clients across the C-suite (in particular CEO, COO, Heads of lines of business, Heads of transformation, Heads of function (e.g. Operations). Our clients are typically:
  • UK and Ireland headquartered universal banks
  • Neo / challenger banks
  • Building societies
  • Finance divisions of large corporates
  • Cards and payments firms
  • Fintechs
  • Regulators and industry bodies
  • Financial market infrastructure

• Pursuit and proposal leadership – from originating opportunities, shaping the response, defining win themes, to defining the delivery model and approach, deal pricing and commercial negotiation.

• Delivery, as Engagement Partner, of complex transformation programmes, ensuring that the work is delivered to cost, on time and within the risk parameters of EY and our clients.

• Acceleration and development of our propositions, offerings and solutions – especially digital transformation where we see significant transformation in the next 2-3 years.

• Stewardship (in conjunction with other Partners) of the Banking & Payments transformation team, playing a significant role in the development of our talent

• Elevation of the EY brand by being highly visible in the market; typically this will include speaking at conferences, hosting industry-wide events, attending conferences, and publishing authentic thought leadership

Skills and attributes for success

Domain skills

• You will have deep knowledge of the functions and lines of business within large banking and payments organisations. Even more importantly, you will be an expert and engaging story teller, that can help senior client executives buy in to transformation, and to leave conversations with the confidence that collectively we can shape and execute ground breaking, AI-enabled transformation.

• You will likely have an appreciation of the regulatory challenges facing our clients (examples of which might include Consumer Duty, payments regulation, anti money laundering regulation and emerging regulation with respect to AI). The candidate does not need to be a deep regulatory expert, but a strong grasp of the key issues is required.

• You will be adept in the “classic” consulting domains such as target operating model design, business case development, process engineering, cost reduction, automation, data and end to end SDLC

• You will be well versed in modern ways of working, and literate in Agile, Cloud, DevOps, and Product Management

• You will have a strong grasp of the different available transformation levers for all components of an operating model, and a deeply proven ability to apply systems-based thinking to the design and execution of transformation

• You will be comfortable with and curious about emerging technology concepts such as Agentic AI, Generative AI, and digital assets; critically you will need to team with our technology consulting domain experts as part of pursuits and delivery.

Relationship skills

• You will be able to draw upon a strong network of senior influencers across the UK & Ireland banking and payments market.

• You will be comfortable rapidly building new relationships from scratch, or developing existing relationships that are shared with other colleagues

• Previous account leadership roles in premium professional services firms would be of significant interest

Interpersonal skills

• A collegiate and collaborative working style is non-negotiable. You will be working with and alongside fellow Partners across different service lines and in different geographies

• An exceptional communicator – both verbal and written. You will be a natural storyteller, and able to influence and inspire our clients, particularly when it comes to the art of the possible

• A producer-leader; all of our Partners are expected to lead delivery, create content and lead by example. “Hands off” will not work here, nor will an expectation to be “presiding over” matters.

• Highly responsive and operate at a fast pace; much of our work is “intra-day” with synchronous connectivity between teams.

• Exceptional people skills with a knack of driving high performing teams through a “high challenge, high support” approach.

Previous experience

• You will have demonstrable sales and delivery experience from a premium professional services organisation. Many of our most successful Partners have also spent part of their career in the industry. We expect to be able to take up client references as part of the selection process.

• You will be a critical thinker and able to go “toe to toe” with senior clients. You will most likely have an exceptional academic background, however increasingly we recognise that our top talent has not always followed a classic, linear career path.

• The role is focussed on clients in the UK and Ireland, however many of our clients are global in nature; experience of working with other markets, and with offshore delivery centres will be highly beneficial.

What we offer

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning:You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you:We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership:

• Diverse and inclusive culture:You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• • Shape and execute procurement strategies across multiple industries and spend categories.
  • Work directly with portfolio company leadership, including CFOs, COOs, and Procurement Heads.
  • Drive cost optimization, supplier consolidation, and process transformation.
  • Establish core tools, processes, and systems — as we’re building this function from the ground up.
  • Lead or contribute to value creation initiatives in post-acquisition environments.

Skills and attributes for success

• • Backgrounds in procurement, sourcing, commercial operations, or consulting.
  • Experience in or exposure to PE-backed businesses.
  • Commercially driven and results-oriented; thrives in build-from-scratch environments.
  • Strong stakeholder engagement and comfort working across a multi-entity portfolio.

To qualify for the role you must have

• • Solid background in a major procurement consulting business.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• • Experience in or exposure to PE-backed businesses.

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