Who You'll Work With
Driving lasting impact and building long-term capabilities with our clients is not easy work. You are the kind of person who thrives in a high performance/high reward culture - doing hard things, picking yourself up when you stumble, and having the resilience to try another way forward.
In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we'll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities you need to become a stronger leader faster than you ever thought possible. Your colleagues—at all levels—will invest deeply in your development, just as much as they invest in delivering exceptional results for clients. Every day, you'll receive apprenticeship, coaching, and exposure that will accelerate your growth in ways you won't find anywhere else.
When you join us, you will have:
- Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
- A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You'll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
- Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm's diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions for our clients. Plus, you'll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
- World-class benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package to enable holistic well-being for you and your family.
Your Impact
You will be a core member of the Procurement hub with responsibilities that range from working on client engagements by driving a workstream for specific categories to developing cutting edge knowledge related to the procurement domain.
In this role you will be providing support to Client Service Teams, delivering key insights on content focused questions such as, spend analysis, TCO/Cleansheet costing, contract analysis, supplier identification, saving idea/lever identification, sourcing strategy, development, RFQ management and analysis, negotiation strategy development and tracking mechanism development.
You will also support client proposals and other client development activities and bring relevant knowledge and capabilities to clients. This role requires extensive travel to client locations for >60% of the time.
You will be based in our Shanghai office.
Procurement is a rapidly growing service line that helps organizations build competitive advantages through the development of world-class purchasing and supply management capabilities. Sustainable impact is our focus and how we measure our success. We focus on end-to-end optimization that looks at total value capture, including strategic sourcing, global sourcing, supplier collaboration & innovation, procure-to-pay, organization design, and capability building.
Our client engagements span most industry sectors with a concentration in Basic Materials, Automotive and Assembly, Consumer Goods, Retail, Pharma, and Travel Transport & Logistics. We have completed over 2,300 Procurement engagements across the globe and in all industries in the last 5 years.
Your Qualifications and Skills
- Bachelor/ master's degree with an outstanding academic record
- 4+ years of relevant work experience
- Strong knowledge of procurement (both commodity & non-commodity), preferably experience in the GEM (Global Energy & Materials) industry
- Expertise in the following areas: sourcing, category management, spend analysis, supplier identification, negotiations, global sourcing, supplier management, etc
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and quantitative skills; Ability to identify root causes and solutions
- Professional attitude and service orientation; team player
- Ability to travel to and work in varying environments that may be challenging and/or not accessible
- Proficiency with Excel, Word, PowerPoint
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, in Chinese and English, with the ability to adjust your style to suit different perspectives and seniority levels