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Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.\nWe are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.\nOur teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.\nPA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.\n Are you passionate about connecting IT success with commercial results?\nWould you like to work in a high performing team where your role involves combining strategy, change, implementation, and technical skills?\nOur Sourcing, IT Strategy, and Corporate Services capability is growing. We help our clients to solve complex IT and sourcing challenges, providing solutions to drive innovation and build efficient organisations. We design integrated and forward-thinking approaches to build the tech strategies and organisations which are needed today - and for tomorrow.\nWhether it’s pure IT strategy or operating model design, outsourcing strategies or legacy technology, or even underperforming and expensive IT functions - we help our clients get things back on track.\nWe are actively recruiting talented IT Sourcing and Procurement Consultants with a passion for defining and delivering radical change within businesses to exploit new digital technology and modern digital ways of working by providing strategic advice to CIOs and business leaders.\nAs an IT Sourcing / Procurement Consultant, you will have the opportunity to help our clients solve the most complex and challenging issues affecting business and government by:\nDesigning sourcing strategies which balance the appropriate mix of internal and external IT and Business Process services, so that organisations benefit from fit-for-the-future services and capabilities.\nShaping and delivering sourcing solutions, business cases and contracts which deliver sustainable benefits, including engaging leading market suppliers.\nShaping and delivering global operating and delivery models that enable the exploitation of modern, digital ways of working.\nLeading complex transition programmes and workstreams to transform IT and business services, to make the change happen by building new organisations, cultures, supplier relationships and transitioning services to new delivery models.\nHybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on a client site.\n Proven experience in Sourcing and Transformation within an IT/digital setting.\nPreference for previous consultancy experience.\nDemonstrable experience of contributing to major bid and proposal development (consulting bid or supplier/service bid - either way desirable but not essential).\nBroad knowledge of the technology services marketplace and exposure to outsourcing application, infrastructure and workplace services (including cloud, SaaS, AI solutions).\nAbility to define business and IT services, requirements and SLAs.\nExperience across the outsourcing lifecycle (strategy, delivery, transition, service optimisation and remediation), including business cases, cost and commercial models.\nExperience working on the shaping of effective procurement strategies and robust commercial solutions.\nExpertise in technology delivery disciplines (e.g. IT strategy, IT service management, agile delivery, IT project management).\nAt senior grades Consulting experience is essential.\nWe know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply - we’d love to hear from you.\nApply today by completing our online application\nPlease be aware that some of our UK roles at PA Consulting require a UK security clearance.\nAll PA people are required to undergo background checks and to achieve the Baseline Personnel Security Standard however, some UK roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting, where applicants must have at least 5 years of continuous residency in the UK.\nWe therefore ask that you only apply if you meet the residency requirements (i.e. you are a British citizen or have been resident in the UK for the past 5 years), as this is the prerequisite for a security clearance. If you're unsure about your eligibility, we encourage you to review the UK Government’s guidance on security vetting before applying.\nLife At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.\nOur purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.\nFind out more about Life at PA here.\nWe are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:\nHealth and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare\n25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days \nGenerous company pension scheme \nOpportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives \nAnnual performance-based bonus \nTax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn) \nWe’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. 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