Procurement Consultant

JC-4364; Procurement Consultant/Vendor Management, CRM

Location: Hybrid (1 to 2 days per week Luton)

Length of Project: 12 months

Start Date: ASAP

Contract Type: Outside IR35

Advertised Rate: £ comp (daily rate)

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Summary

Do you have experience of providing vendor management and commercial governance expertise, on a complex, multi-vendor CRM implementation programme?

This consulting opportunity is to support our client, a leading pharmaceutical organisation, in managing a multi-supplier ecosystem within a CRM transformation programme. The role focuses on aligning suppliers to contractual commitments, controlling costs, and ensuring commercial rigour across delivery.

The project needs a consultant who has

• strong experience in vendor management across multi-supplier technology programmes
• deep commercial acumen covering contracts, pricing and cost control disciplines
• proven ability to operate within structured governance and PMO environments
• effective stakeholder engagement across procurement, technology and finance functions

Key Services

The key services that you will be asked to provide are:

• establish and run supplier governance forums including performance tracking against SLAs KPIs and OKRs
• verify contractual obligations including deliverables milestones and acceptance criteria
• review and challenge supplier change requests for commercial and contractual alignment
• support commercial negotiations including pricing service credits and contract extensions
• produce supplier performance and commercial reporting including spend risk and value tracking
• coordinate supplier escalations remediation activities and dispute resolution

Mandatory Requirements

Successful consultants will be able to demonstrate:

• experience in vendor management or IT procurement within complex multi-vendor programmes
• strong contract interpretation and commercial management capability
• experience managing supplier performance against SLAs KPIs and governance frameworks
• ability to collaborate with cross functional teams including PMO finance legal and technology
• experience in cost control invoice validation and identifying cost avoidance opportunities.

Optional Requirements

It will also be advantageous if you have

• experience within CRM or SaaS based technology environments
• relevant certifications such as CIPS,ITIL or equivalent

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