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Principal Consultant - Technology Procurement

ProximaCardiff🇬🇧United Kingdom

Why this role stands out

This Principal Consultant role at Proxima offers a dynamic opportunity to drive impactful IT procurement initiatives and gain rapid, hands-on experience in a practitioner-led environment. You'll thrive here if you are a strategic thinker with a passion for delivering tangible results and collaborating closely with clients to achieve measurable change. Apply today to accelerate your consulting career with a leading firm.

Quick overview

SeniorityLeader
Work modeOn Site
LocationCardiff, United Kingdom
SourcingStakeholder ManagementMicrosoft ExcelProcurementData Analysis

Job description

The opportunity
As a Principal Consultant in our IT and Technology practice at Proxima, you will be part of client-facing teams delivering high-impact commercial, sourcing, and supplier initiatives within IT Procurement. You will support the development of insights, contribute to solution design, and play an active role in delivering outcomes—not just recommendations.

This is not a passive learning role. At Proxima, we are practitioner-consultants. You will build experience quickly, take responsibility early, and work alongside clients to deliver real, measurable change.

What you’ll do

Support delivery across client engagements

  • Experience leading and managing global teams.

  • Build strategy development and execution, lead on category management and sourcing activities.

  • Assist with opportunity identification, supplier research, and commercial analysis.

  • Build structured fact bases that turn data into clear insights.

Analyse data to inform decisions

  • Use Excel and data analysis techniques to identify value, risk, and performance improvement opportunities.

  • Support benefits tracking and progress against delivery milestones.

  • Ensure analyses are accurate, structured, and decision-oriented.

Engage and collaborate with stakeholders

  • Work with client stakeholders to gather requirements and align objectives.

  • Communicate findings clearly and professionally with team members and clients.

  • Support workshops, working sessions, and day-to-day client interactions.

Work in a global, flexible model

  • Operate in a hybrid environment, balancing client, home, and office-based work.

  • Work closely with our global team, with the flexibility to spend time in other regions as required.

  • Travel domestically and internationally as required to support client delivery and team collaboration across our global technology team.

What you bring

Experience and skills

  • 8+ years of experience in global IT procurement category knowledge

  • Strong knowledge of indirect procurement, ideally gained in a consultancy environment or working alongside consultants (relevant industry experience will be considered).

  • Deep subject matter expertise in Enterprise Software, IT Services, and/or Cloud Hosting.

  • Experience with spend profiles over $50M annual.

Consulting mindset

  • Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

  • A proactive, ownership-oriented approach to your work.

  • Comfort operating in a fast-paced, delivery-focused environment.

Flexibility and growth orientation

  • Willingness to travel as required.

  • Curiosity, adaptability, and a strong desire to learn and develop.

  • Motivation to build a long-term consulting career in a growing global firm.

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