Senior Consultant, Supply Chain & Operations, Infrastructure

Senior Consultant Sustainable Infrastructure Supply Chain and Operations

Manchester London Birmingham Edinburgh Glasgow

The UK governments UK Infrastructure: A 10 Year Strategy sets out a long-term cross-sector plan to drive economic growth deliver net zero and improve public services. With a 725 billion commitment the strategy prioritises stability private investment and robust delivery across transport energy digital water housing and social infrastructure giving confidenceand direction across the entiresupply chain.

Infrastructure supply chain and operations are facing unprecedentedglobal uncertaintyriskand a career in this sector offers diverse opportunities on some of the UKs most transformational and iconic projects.

The opportunity
Take your career to the next level and join a high performing and inclusive team working collaboratively with some of thelargest infrastructure projectsin the world as theyseektodeliveroperateand our teams focus on the following core areas:

• The initiation and successful delivery of transformation programmes tackling our clients most pressing and complex initiatives

• Sustainable infrastructure to support the governments green infrastructure plan and ambition to deliver net zero to the UK

• The involvement in early stage large scale infrastructure project development activities as well as ongoing support to drive more successful infrastructure project delivery

We are focused on growing oursupply chaincapability in the infrastructure marketacrossawide range of clients within a variety of sectors includingtransportenergy defence utilities digitalandsocial infrastructure.

We value curious thinkers who have the courage to lead great communicators who donot take themselves too seriously flexible collaborators who build relationships based on doing the right thing and innovative problem-solvers who use their experience toultimately finda better way.

YourKey Responsibilities
Our clients place considerable trust in us and our advice and people who are passionate about goingabove and beyondto improve our working world unifies us as a team. This is crucial in enabling us to consistently deliver or exceed on our commitments.

As a Senior Consultantyoullbalance internal and external responsibilitiescomprisingclient business development support operational and personal development.

Buildmaintainand strengthen relationships and be a trusted advisor in at least oneof: supply chain operations sustainabilityin the infrastructure sector

• Contribute/lead a workstream within a project and be capable of managing activity to complete deliverables within your remit

• Contribute and be an active member of a core project team often working with others fromdifferent partsof EYs world

• Development of reportsdocumentsand presentations toassistclients and senior members of the EY team with decision making

• Help ensure the quality of our delivery exceeds client expectations by effectively managing activities within your remit

• Work across our internal sector and account field of play teams to develop your network bringing ourexpertiseto bear

• Contribute to business development including development of proposals in response to tender opportunities

• Contribute to internal practice development around the infrastructure sector in general but also within supply chain and operations

• Contribute to EYs positioning across the UK (and global) infrastructure market

Your Experience:

An understanding of the UK infrastructure sector is critical to this role whether from experience working in industry government or management consultancy environment. Knowledge of one or more of the following sectors is preferred: transport energy defence utilities digital and social infrastructure.

Our Senior Consultantsare required topossesssome experience in at least one of the technical skills below and some exposure across one or multiple others.

• Designand/or implementation ofoperating models delivery models and transformationsin infrastructure or a related sector

• Development and execution ofcommercial procurement and supply chain strategiesininfrastructure orarelated sector

• Developmentand managementof contractsand familiarity with common contract forms (NEC FIDIC JCT etc.)

• Strategic sourcing category managementprocurementand supply chain mappingin infrastructure or a related sector

• Operations and asset management for major assets and networks

• Policy development ininfrastructure or a related sector

• Development of robust and sustainable HMT Green Book business cases

• Designinnovative solutions from end-to-end to support clients in achieving sustainable change including their transition to net zero / net negative

• Programme and project management delivery within both traditional and agile project environments

Qualifications

Our Senior Consultants have excellent verbal and written communication skills andcanengage effectively with peers and senior stakeholders. They are proactive and energetic self-starters with innovative qualities that enable high quality work to be delivered often inrelatively qualificationsyou must haveare:

• Experience within theinfrastructureor relatedsector

• The ability to write to a high standard whilst being fluent/native in English withadditionalmajor languages desired

• Ability to make adapt style and approach to suit different contexts and environments

• A willingness to travel and work across the UK and potentially overseas

What we offer
EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionalscan be requiredto travel regularly and at times be based at client sites our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

We offer a competitiveremunerationpackage. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development and withFlexEYyou can select benefits that suit your needs covering holidays health and well-being insurance savings and a wide range of discountsoffersand promotions. Plus we offer:

Continuous learning:Youlldevelop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
Success as defined by you:Wellprovide the tools and flexibility so you can make a meaningful impact your way.
Transformative leadership:Wellgive you the insights coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
Diverse and inclusive culture:Youllbe embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you candemonstratethat you meet the criteria above please contact us as soon as possible.

The exceptional EY to build.