Overview

Senior Consultant, Supply Chain & Operations at EY. Be part of a high performing and inclusive team, helping clients optimise and transform their supply chain, operations, net zero and commercial and procurement operations. Work with cutting-edge technologies and contribute to business development and leadership development within cross-functional teams.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and strengthen relationships and act as a trusted advisor in areas such as operations, planning, procurement or manufacturing.
• Contribute or lead a workstream within a project and manage activity to deliverables within your remit.
• Be an active member of a core project team, often collaborating with colleagues across EY worldwide.

Focus on our clients

• Contribute to the development of proposals and showcase leading practices.
• Engage the market with thought leadership and enhance EY methodologies.
• Develop your network across internal sector and account teams to bring commercial and procurement expertise to bear.

Support our business

• Support the successful delivery of projects by managing work products to time and budget.
• Ensure delivery quality and alignment with client expectations within your remit.
• Develop and share knowledge to strengthen EY’s methodologies.

Support operational excellence

• Manage project delivery and forecasted contributions to time and budget.
• Maintain high delivery quality and client satisfaction by effective activity management.

Personal and people development

• Maintain a personal development plan to enhance technical and consulting skills.
• Grow people leadership experience through leading as part of client and internal teams.

Your Experience

Typically, Senior Consultants bring practical experience from professional services or industry with a focus on commercial and procurement. Experience across sectors such as Consumer Products & Retail, Energy & Resources, Government & Infrastructure, Health & Life Sciences, Private & National and Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment is valued. Some exposure to technical skills below is preferred.

• Supply Chain Strategy: including operating model design, segmentation and inventory optimisation across end-to-end supply chain.
• Supply Chain Transformation: involvement in significant supply chain transformation projects, with design, setup and delivery including people, process and technology change.
• Digital Supply Chain: technologies such as Robotic Process Automation, AI, IoT, Blockchain and Big Data analytics.
• Supply Chain Analytics: developing end-to-end visibility through analytics and models.
• Supply Chain Planning Functional: demand/supply planning, S&OP, segmentation, inventory optimisation, production scheduling.
• Supply Chain Planning with Technology: familiarity with OMP, Kinaxis, o9, Aera, SAP IBP, Blue Yonder, SAP S/4HANA.
• Logistics: network design, global trade, warehouse design, 3PL/4PL, Control Tower.
• Manufacturing: optimisation at plant or network level.
• Procurement: strategic/operational/transactional procurement, including SAP Ariba.
• Service and Asset Management Transformation: end-to-end asset lifecycle knowledge.

Qualifications

Excellent verbal and written communication; ability to engage with peers and senior stakeholders. Proactive, energetic, self-starters with innovative delivery capabilities. Professional body memberships or qualifications (e.g., CIPS, IACCM) are beneficial but not required; relevant skills are welcome.

What We Offer

EY is committed to inclusion and flexible working arrangements. Travel to client sites may be required. Total rewards include flexibility, holidays, health and well-being benefits, insurance, savings and discounts. We offer:

• Continuous learning and development.
• Tools and flexibility to define your success.
• Transformative leadership and coaching.
• Diverse and inclusive culture.

If you meet the criteria, please apply. The Exceptional EY Experience is Yours To Build. Apply now.

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