Deals Business Restructuring Services Procurement Manager

Job Description

About the teamOur procurement specialists sit within our broader Operational Restructuring team. We work closely with our clients to develop sustainable solutions to free up cash from our clients balance sheets. Our skills and knowledge are applied and gradually transferred to improve working capital management, leaving clients with sustainable performance improvement.About the roleYou will be working with clients on operational restructuring, cost reduction and working capital improvements, focused primarily on cost based transformation and sustainable performance improvement in the supply chain. Your work will include Helping client management develop and implement a turnaround or transformation programme Leading projects across multiple geographies, business lines and functions. Helping clients reduce costs quickly from their supply chains and optimising the effectiveness of their procurement/supply chain operations Understanding key business processes around indirect cost management including Category Management, Strategic Sourcing, Purchase to Pay and Supplier Risk and Relationship management Bringing to bear procurement and supply chain expertise and a demonstrable understanding of the challenges facing our clients across a range of categories of indirect spend eg Technology, Facilities, Marketing, Labour, Travel etc Assimilating complex information to formulate structured, pragmatic and meaningful client recommendations using Specification, Price, Efficiency, Innovation and Demand management leversEssential skills and experience Previous experience in cost-based transformation in procurement, commercial sourcing, or working capital gained either from large multinationals or consulting/advisory roles Experience in projects to improve indirect procurement, strategic sourcing, category management procure to pay or general working capital optimisation Good end to end understanding of the flows of goods/services, information and value flows and how internal functions and external stakeholders cooperate to improve leverage. Sound financial analysis skills including ideally the use/potential of advanced analytics tools such as Alteryx and Tableau to assimilate and draw insights from complex 3rd party spend data Business adoption (not systems configuration) of next generation souricng and purchase to pay tools. Sound commercial awareness and business analysis skills Experience of managing teams Experience of Project managementWe are building a new team within the UKs most successful restructuring practice with unparalleled access to a massive cross sector client base. Therefore, as well as your contribution to business development and existing client engagements, we will also welcome your input to how the team and the proposition develops across sector. In parallel we will also support your development of new skill and experiences within one of the worlds leading professional services organisations.With an increasingly agile workforce, were also open to flexible working requirements where appropriate and have many successful arrangements currently in placeOur team provides organisations with pragmatic solutions for operational restructuring and resource management for a swift recovery and sustained future success. Youll work on performing short term cash flow reviews, advising on capital management, and assisting with stakeholder negotiations and restructuring methodologies.DealsOur Deals business is an exciting, fast-paced and an ever-growing business that focuses on deals and crisis situations for our clients. Collectively, we deal with the types of situations you hear about regularly in the news and we provide support, insight and analysis to the management, shareholders and financiers of business.Not the role for youDid you know PwC offer flexible contract arrangements as well as contingent work (ie temporary or day rate contracting)The skills we look for in future employeesAll our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, The PwC Professional and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.DiversityValuing Difference. Driving Inclusion.We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.