Principal Consultant Supply Chain & Procurement

Mott Mac Donald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee‑owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued.

Whatever your ambition, Mott Mac Donald is where people come to be brilliant.

Mott Mac Donald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors.

We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients’ key challenges, combining our world‑leading project expertise with unrivalled programme delivery capabilities and advisory services.

APD delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting and education, health and care management.

Join our rapidly growing Supply Chain and Procurement practice supporting some of the most exciting projects with UK and international clients. Working within a leading employee‑owned global consultancy, you will be contributing to our teams ambitious growth and supporting the delivery of strategic change across a range of sectors and clients.

As a Strategic Procurement Consultant, you will be working within the advisory and programme delivery unit providing strategic procurement advice to external clients across defence, water, energy and transportation sectors, and internally within the wider Mott Mac Donald business.

Our advisory and programme delivery unit delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity from £1m to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting, education and healthcare management. We are currently looking for a Procurement Consultant to join our team.

• Developing bespoke procurement and contract strategies
• Providing commercial advice to clients and colleagues in respect to optimising commercial engagement with supply chains
• Providing advice to clients on procurement strategy, market engagement, contract selection, scheduling and resourcing of procurement activities and selection criteria
• Designing delivery structures and target contract models
• Determining client and supply chain capability and capacity to inform strategy development
• Analysis of current and future suppliers and their resilience
• Establishing supply chain management processes and systems
• Review of procurement and supply chain systems to provide confidence and insight
• Managing procurement processes, and the delivery of procurement activities, in the capacity of a specialist consultant service to clients.
• Providing support and advice on complex or challenging processes as required
• Providing oversight and intervention throughout a procurement process to identify and resolve current or future issues
• Embedding sustainability measures throughout the supply chain, including capture and reporting of sustainability performance information

• Strong track record of delivering strategic procurement, experience of…