Senior Consultant, Supply Chain & Operations, Infrastructure

Senior Consultant, Sustainable Infrastructure, Supply Chain and Operations

Manchester, London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow

The UK government’s “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 confidence and direction across the entire supply chain. 

Infrastructure supply chain and operations are facing unprecedented global uncertainty, risk and volatility. Building a career in this sector offers diverse opportunities on some of the UK’s 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 the largest infrastructure projects in the world as they seek to deliver, operate and transform. Specifically, 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 government’s 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 our supply chain capability in the infrastructure market across a wide range of clients within a variety of sectors, including transport, energy, defence, utilities, digital and social infrastructure. 

We value curious thinkers who have the courage to lead, great communicators who do not take themselves too seriously, flexible collaborators who build relationships based on doing the right thing, and innovative problem-solvers who use their experience to ultimately find a better way.  

Your Key Responsibilities 
Our clients place considerable trust in us and our advice, and people who are passionate about going above and beyond to 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 Consultant, you’ll balance internal and external responsibilities, comprising client, business development support, operational and personal development. 

Build maintain and strengthen relationships and be a trusted advisor in at least one of: supply chain, operations, sustainability in 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 from different parts of EY’s world 

• Development of reports, documents and presentations to assist clients 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 our expertise to 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 EY’s 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 Consultants are required to possess some experience in at least one of the technical skills below and some exposure across one or multiple others.  
 

• Design and/or implementation of operating models, delivery models and transformations in infrastructure or a related sector 

• Development and execution of commercial, procurement and supply chain strategies in infrastructure or a related sector 

• Development and management of contracts and familiarity with common contract forms (NEC, FIDIC, JCT, etc.) 

• Strategic sourcing, category management, procurement and supply chain mapping in infrastructure or a related sector 

• Operations and asset management for major assets and networks 

• Policy development in infrastructure or a related sector 

• Development of robust and sustainable HMT Green Book business cases  

• Design innovative 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 and can engage 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 in relatively short timeframes.  Specific qualifications you must have are: 

• Experience within the infrastructure or related sector 

• The ability to write to a high standard, whilst being fluent/native in English with additional major 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 professionals can be required to 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 competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer: 

•    Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.  
•    Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way. 
•    Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs. 
•    Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs. 

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible. 

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