Technology Strategy / Sourcing Consultant

Are you passionate about connecting IT success with commercial results? Would you like to work in a high performing team where your role involves combining strategy, change, implementation, and technical skills? Our 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. Whether 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. We are actively recruiting talented IT/ Technology Strategy and Sourcing 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. As an IT / Technology Strategy/ Sourcing Consultant, you will have the opportunity to help our clients solve the most complex and challenging issues affecting business and government by: Designing 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. Shaping and delivering sourcing solutions, business cases and contracts which deliver sustainable benefits, including engaging leading market suppliers. Shaping and delivering global operating and delivery models that enable the exploitation of modern, digital ways of working. Leading 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. Hybrid 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. Qualifications   Proven experience in Sourcing, Strategy and Transformation within an IT/digital setting. Preference for previous consultancy experience. Demonstrable experience of contributing to major bid and proposal development (consulting bid or supplier/service bid – either way desirable but not essential). Broad knowledge of the technology services marketplace and exposure to outsourcing application, infrastructure and workplace services (including cloud, SaaS, AI solutions). Ability to define business and IT services, requirements and SLAs. Experience across the outsourcing lifecycle (strategy, delivery, transition, service optimisation and remediation), including business cases, cost and commercial models. Experience working on the shaping of effective procurement strategies and robust commercial solutions. Expertise in technology delivery disciplines (e.g. IT strategy, IT service management, agile delivery, IT project management).