Connecting Talent with Opportunity

Position: a part-time role working on average 2-3 days per week, with flexibility around events

Location: Nottingham or London (with an average 1 day per week in our office and travel to events as required)

What We Are Looking For

We’re looking for an experienced and passionate individual with prior experience in professional membership group and event management, ideally across both the public and private sectors, to lead our Consultancy Procurement Council (CPC).

Some understanding of the consultancy market would be helpful, but we are not looking for a consultancy market expert (we have that expertise). You’ll be supported by a dedicated Membership Manager and Marketing Manager.

Whilst already the leading global group focused on consultancy procurement, the CPC has huge global growth potential, especially in running international events. All the resources to deliver this are primed – we now need someone to own driving this, not just on an “event by event” basis, but delivering the full growth strategy.

What The CPC Is

The CPC is an exclusive peer learning group for senior procurement professionals to meet and share best practices regarding how to buy consultancy services better.

You’ll be responsible for bringing together and growing a network of procurement professionals from over 100 global blue-chip companies and organisations across the private and public sectors and coordinating a calendar of events (roundtables, masterclasses and summits) and benchmarking.

We recently held our 2023 London Summit, which was attended by over 140 blue chip procurement professionals (from companies such as Lloyds, Shell, GSK etc); next  year we would like the event to be twice this size.

Our members love the CPC and what it does for them – we need help to do more!

Key Responsibilities:

·       Overseeing all aspects of membership management (inc. marketing, subscription processes, renewals).

·       Agreeing on a growing calendar of events and managing end-2-end delivery (there is no separate resource to do this).

·       Acting as a key point of contact for CPC Members, understanding their needs and facilitating the provision of CPC resources

·       Cultivating personal relationships with Members embodying the professional and trusted face of the CPC.

·       Attracting sponsorship for events, maximising revenues

Essential Experience/Abilities

·       Previous experience within blue chip membership and events management

·       Appetite to own and drive the growth of the CPC as a personal project

·       Fantastic organisational capabilities

·       Appetite to manage all aspects of the CPC – from the strategic to the tactical tasks

·       Exceptional communication skills and ability to build strong relationships

Please send an updated CV to careers@constellia.com to discuss this further.

About Constellia 

We are the experts in consultancy category management.

Established in 2007, we manage and influence spend in over 150 organisations across the UK public and private sectors.

Our unique Consultancy MSP provides the full solution to a challenging category of spend – critical to which is the calibre of our professionals who front it.

We also operate the Consultancy Procurement Council (“The CPC”), which is the largest global network of consultancy category managers from over 100 of the world’s largest organisations, influencing over £5 billion of spend and giving us unparalleled insight into best practices in this space.

From day one with us, you will be a key player in our inclusive and supportive fast-growing SME. Working at Constellia can be fast-paced; we are a diverse, hard-working team united by a drive to help each other in a fun and friendly way, celebrating our success as a team.

The Role  

You will be responsible for working with key blue-chip clients, fronting our offering and being the personification of everything we do.

This will involve developing spend management strategies and leading the sourcing of projects with big brand and boutique consultants.  

What We Are Looking For 

·     A huge hunger to transform the way consultancy procurement is done (please don’t apply if – you are comfortable with the way consultancy is typically managed)

·     An analytical problem solver (few categories present so many problems for Procurement…)

·     A work ethic second to none (you feel defined by what you deliver)

·     A passionate procurement professional (we need you to be excited about being great at this – we are)

·     An urgency in how you work (we are in a hurry)

·     A sense of horror (at repeating the same old savings cycle every year and ending up as CPO)

·     Someone who is slightly smarter than everyone else in the room in every way (and the Big 4/strategy houses etc, will be in the room)

·     Humility & a growth mindset (we are a fast-growing business and need you to grow with us)

Responsibilities 

·     Developing and executing strategic sourcing strategies

·     Conducting market research to identify potential suppliers, evaluate market trends and leverage market intelligence

·     Establishing and maintaining strong relationships with key suppliers, ensuring supplier performance is monitored

·     Collaborating with internal stakeholders to understand business requirements and develop sourcing plans that align with their needs

·     Driving supplier relationship management activities, including regular business reviews and dispute resolution

·     Monitoring industry trends, technological advancements and best practices in strategic sourcing and recommending service improvements

·    Ensuring compliance with applicable laws, regulations and company policies

Essential Experience/Abilities 

·     Proven experience in strategic sourcing or procurement role, with a focus on enhancing supplier performance

·     Strong understanding of sourcing methodologies and negotiation techniques

·     Effective communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and suppliers

If this exciting opportunity sounds like your next role, we would love to hear from you, in return we will commensurate with experience, excellent benefits, hybrid/ remote working 3 days per week in the London or Nottingham office with the autonomy and support to do your job well, please send an updated CV to careers@constellia.com to discuss further.

Constellia
Location: Nottingham
Package: £30-45k dependant on experience

Overview: We are looking for someone driven who enjoys working in a dynamic environment and is looking for more than “just another Procurement job”.

Reporting to the Head of Procurement, you will be providing direct support to our clients with their sourcing requirements, managing the end-to-end procurement process using our purpose-built source-to-pay platform.

View full job description. To apply please email your CV to careers@constellia.com