Senior Consultant Strategic Sourcing

How do you ensure that IT investments truly contribute to an organisation’s strategic ambitions? Which services should be managed internally, which should be outsourced, and what role do cloud solutions play in that decision?

As a Senior Consultant Strategic Sourcing, you help organisations make these strategic choices. You advise clients on the design and sourcing of their IT landscape and translate business objectives into clear sourcing and procurement strategies. In doing so, you look beyond the procurement challenge itself, bringing together stakeholder interests, opportunities, and risks to help clients make informed decisions.

You will work on a wide variety of projects, ranging from developing business cases and defining sourcing strategies to managing supplier selections and procurement processes. Highberg works extensively with public sector organisations, where projects are often delivered through European tender procedures. Depending on the assignment, you may act as a project manager leading a sourcing or selection process, as a subject-matter expert, or as a quality assurance advisor overseeing the process. You will often work across multiple clients and projects simultaneously. This combination of strategy, content expertise, and execution makes the role both challenging and diverse.

No two client challenges are the same. One day, you may help a financial services organisation outsource part of its IT environment to the cloud, while the next you may advise a government organisation on the procurement of IT or communication services.

What all assignments have in common is that you help clients create future-proof IT services and supplier ecosystems. You will:

• Analyse client ambitions and business needs and translate them into effective sourcing and procurement strategies.

• Advise on sourcing, outsourcing, cloud strategy, supplier management, and the design of IT service delivery.

• Develop business cases and support clients in strategic decision-making.

• Lead supplier selection processes, procurement projects, and formal tender procedures.

• Prepare and develop RFI’s, RFP’s, Statements of Requirements, and Service Level Agreements (SLA’s).

• Advise clients on contract management and supplier management.

• Act as a consultant, project manager, or quality assurance lead, depending on the nature of the assignment.

In all your work, you remain independent of suppliers and specific technologies. The client’s objectives and best interests always come first.

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, for example in Information Management, Organisational Sciences, Business Administration, or a related field.

• Experience with supplier selection processes, procurement activities, and IT services contracting.

• At least four years of relevant experience in IT, procurement, contract management, service delivery, and/or consulting.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Dutch.