EY Senior Consultant - Supply Chain Operations Belfast 

United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Belfast 

722227463

The Opportun

Leverage and expand your experience in commercial and procurement innovation to shape leading practices. Develop and impart your experience to help create the next generation of leaders.

You will have the opportunity to contribute to our growth, across Supply Chain and Operations in the coming years.

Your Key Responsibilities

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, becoming a trusted advisor in at least one area of supply chain (e.g., operations, planning, procurement, manufacturing).
• Contribute to or lead a workstream within a project, managing activities to complete deliverables within your remit.
• Actively participate as a core project team member, often collaborating with others from different parts of EY’s world.

Support Our Business

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

Support Operational Excellence

• Support successful project delivery by managing your work products and contributions as forecasted to time and budget.
• 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.
• Grow your people leadership experience by leading client and internal teams.

Your Experience

Our Senior Consultants are required to possess experience in at least one of the following 4 Core Pillars and the required technical skills, with exposure across one or multiple others:

Profitability Cost out Contribution

• Experience driving cost out of organisations’ third-party spend from opportunity identification through to savings delivery
• Developing detailed analytics for enhanced supply chain visibility, utilising data to drive insights and inform decision-making across the supply chain
• Demand and supply planning, sales & operations planning, segmentation strategy, inventory optimisation, and production scheduling to enhance savings

Digital, Technology and Spend Transformation

• Supply Chain Planning with Technology: Knowledge of technologies like OMP, Kinaxis, SAP IBP, Blue Yonder, and SAP S/4 HANA, and their application in optimising supply chain planning processes.
• Deployment of S2P systemsacross partners (e.g. Ariba, Zycus, GEP)
• Digital Procurement roadmap development and delivery
• AI use-case identification, development and deployment

Procurement and Contract Lifecycle Value

• procurement strategy, category management, contract management, and strategic sourcing
• Experience in managing complex end-to-end procurements
• Contract lifecycle management process design, platform selection and implementation
• Identification of contract value leakage and recovery via negotiation with suppliers

Operating Model Effectiveness

• End-to-end operating model design and implementation experience covering strategy, design, transformation, and implementation.
• Defining and implement insource / outsource/ GBS models and manage transitions
• Defining support processes such as Supplier Relationship Management, sustainability etc

You Will:

• Drive Innovation:Exhibit a proactive and innovative mindset, motivated by a strong desire to help our clients achieve their strategic goals and overcome challenges.
• Embrace Curiosity:Demonstrate enthusiasm and a commitment to continuous learning, staying informed about the latest industry trends and best practices to provide cutting-edge solutions.
• Establish Professional Credibility:Quickly build personal credibility with clients and colleagues by showcasing your expertise and professionalism in all interactions.
• Exhibit Strong Personal Impact:Display resilience and a strong personal presence, effectively influencing stakeholders and driving positive outcomes.
• Adopt a Practical Problem-Solving Approach:Tackle complex issues with a pragmatic mindset, facilitating client agreement through clear communication and actionable insights.
• Analyse Complex Problems:Skillfully dissect intricate challenges to deliver insightful, practical, and sustainable solutions that meet client needs.
• Foster Collaboration:Encourage teamwork and collaboration among team members, leveraging diverse perspectives to enhance project outcomes.
• Manage Client Assignments Effectively:Confidently identify and address potential issues during client engagements, ensuring smooth project execution and maintaining strong client relationship

Qualifications

Our Senior Consultants possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, enabling effective engagement with peers and senior stakeholders. They are proactive, energetic self-starters with innovative qualities that facilitate high-quality work delivery. Professional body membership or qualifications (e.g., CIPS, IACCM) are valued but not mandatory.

What We Offer

We offer a competitive remuneration package, including support for flexible/hyrbid working and career development. With FlexEY, you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings, and a wide range of discounts. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous Learning (including professional qualifications and in-person bootcamps):Develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as Defined by You:Tools and flexibility to make a meaningful impact your way.
• Transformative Leadership:Insights, coaching, and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and Inclusive Culture:

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Apply now.

Please note: Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. This information is kept confidential and is not used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to 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. We ask because it matters!