Sourcing Professional Services - Senior Consultant

Title:

Sourcing Professional Services - Senior Consultant

Location:

Chicago, US

Date:
Feb 25, 2026

At Chain IQ, your ideas move fast.

Chain IQ is a global AI-driven Procurement Service Partner, headquartered in Baar, Switzerland, with operations across main centers and 16 offices worldwide. We provide tailored, end-to-end procurement solutions that enable transformation, drive scalability, and deliver substantial reductions in our clients' indirect spend. Our culture is built on innovation, entrepreneurship, ownership, and impact. Here, your voice matters - bold thinking is encouraged, and action follows ambition.

Join our Team

It is an exciting time at Chain IQ and our team in Chicago are looking for a Senior Consultant in Professional Services
.

Chain IQ generate value far beyond cost reduction. We transform our client’s indirect procurement towards aworld-class, resilient, ethical and digitalized end-to-end function. We promote a culture of collaboration and shared excellence while encouraging an open and honest exchange of ideas. We offer the potential for significant corporate growth and career development.

Our ambition is to strengthen the existing highly experienced team to provide the best in industry support to our growing client base.

The primary purpose is to deliver value-add sourcing services to clients in a structured, professional and consistent manner.

We are currently seeking a Senior Consultant to join the Professional Services Americas Team
. The Sourcing Professional Services - Senior Consultant needs to be a dynamic, highly client-focused individual with proven experience within Professional Service (including but not limited to Consulting, HR, and Legal Services).

• Strategic Intake, Requirement Gathering and Demand Shaping:
  • Working with client stakeholders to define business needs, project scope, deliverables, timelines, budget expectations, and success criteria for the sourcing request
  • Partnering with senior business leaders to shape and challenge demand before requirements are finalized, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and optimized project design
  • Translating business objectives into multi‑year sourcing roadmaps and proactively surface strategic sourcing opportunities across the Professional Services portfolio.
• Category Strategy Alignment and Continuous Optimization:
  • Determining whether the request aligns with the broader professional services category strategy, preferred supplier programs, frameworks, and rate cards
  • Ensuring all sourcing efforts reinforce global category strategies, preferred supplier frameworks, and governance models—while influencing updates where market conditions or business needs evolve
• Advanced Market Intelligence and Supplier Ecosystem Development:
  • Conducting deep market analysis, including macro‑trends, emerging delivery models, rate inflation drivers, and consulting/managed services landscape shifts
  • Building and curating a high‑performing supplier ecosystem, identifying strategic partners, niche providers, and innovation opportunities that align with future business requirements.
• Strategic Sourcing Approach Design:
  Architecting sourcing strategies that maximize long‑term value—leveraging performance‑based structures, multi‑phase competitive events, capability assessments, and alternative delivery models
• RFx Creation & Management (RFI/RFQ/RFP):
  • Developing and issuing sourcing documents, including requirements, scoring criteria, commercial templates, and evaluation frameworks
  • Leading complex, multi‑round RFx events including strategic problem‑statements, advanced scoring frameworks, risk overlays, and executive governance touchpoints
  • Driving alignment across stakeholders and ensure evaluation criteria reinforce strategic priorities, innovation, and measurable outcomes
• Bid Evaluation & Analysis:
  • Analyzing supplier proposals across cost, capability, risk, diversity, technical approach, delivery methodology, and compliance to determine best fit
  • Identifying supplier‑led innovation opportunities that create measurable competitive advantage for the client
• Financial Analysis & Cost Modeling:
  • Performing…