Why This Role Stands Out
This Senior Consultant role offers significant growth by leading impactful capital procurement projects and mentoring junior talent within a reputable firm. You'll thrive here if you enjoy hands-on problem-solving and client collaboration, driving tangible change and developing your expertise in complex sourcing strategies. Apply now to accelerate your career in a dynamic consulting environment.
Quick Overview
Job Description
The opportunity
As a Senior Consultant at Proxima in our Capital Procurement practice, you will lead complex workstreams and manage senior stakeholders while delivering innovative solutions and mentoring junior consultants. You will be part of client-facing teams delivering high-impact commercial, sourcing, and supplier initiatives, supporting the development of insights, contributing to solution design, and playing 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 teams and workstreams or projects across complex engagements, including transport, energy, utilities, and complex construction projects, with clients and stakeholders across the UK and Europe.
Develop and implement sourcing strategies for capital infrastructure programs, including commercial models, risk allocation, and whole life cost analysis to meet challenging timelines and budgets.
Identify opportunities supporting client value and revenue growth.
Management and career development
Coach and develop junior consultants.
Contribute to Proxima category thought leadership and IP.
Commercial acumen and comfort with ambiguity.
Engage and collaborate with stakeholders
Lead supplier negotiations for complex commercial programs
Work directly with senior client stakeholders to gather requirements and align objectives.
Communicate findings clearly and professionally with team members and senior client stakeholders.
Lead 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.
Travel as required to support client delivery and team collaboration.
What you bring
Experience and skills
Strong experience in capital procurement, gained within a Client, Consulting or Supplier environment, ideally across more than one.
Strong track record of delivering or supporting large, complex, Capital programs
Practical understanding of CapEx environments and major project delivery.
Familiarity with NEC4 and/or FIDIC contractual frameworks
Experience supporting project delivery and managing stakeholder engagement across workstreams
Strong analytical capability and confidence working with data.
Consulting mindset
Strong senior 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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