Management Consultant – Strategic Sourcing

About the role

Procure it Right (PIR), part of the Newground Alliance, is looking for a management consultant in cost optimization and strategic sourcing to join its team in Stockholm. You will help clients reshape their sourcing strategies and redesign how they buy across many categories, with a focus on cost optimization, cost reduction and high-impact negotiations, including designing and running RFP/RFX processes and sourcing events.

Key responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with clients and suppliers, ensuring engagement, transparency and measurable impact
• Identify savings opportunities, develop sourcing strategies, run initiatives and ensure value realization
• Understand clients' spend, sourcing needs and procurement challenges across categories
• Develop category and procurement strategies that increase value for clients
• Translate business needs into sourcing strategies with strong cross-functional buy-in
• Design and run strategic sourcing initiatives and RFP/RFQ events from requirements definition to supplier selection and contracting
• Run high-impact negotiations with suppliers to secure commercial value, quality and risk mitigation

Required profile

• 6-15 years in strategic sourcing and procurement, preferably across multiple categories and industries
• Experience developing and executing category and supplier strategies and running end-to-end sourcing events (RFP/RFQ/RFX)
• Academic degree (e.g. business, engineering, economics or similar)
• Proven track record of cost reduction and procurement performance improvement
• Fluency in Swedish and English
• Management consulting experience is a strong plus but not mandatory

Required skills

• Strong analytical skills and structured, quantitative problem solving focused on cost optimization
• Communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills
• Collaborative, hands-on approach

What we offer

• A boutique consultancy with a flat hierarchy, direct access to senior partners and real ownership from day one
• Engagement on complex cost optimization and strategic sourcing projects in the Nordics
• Career progression and personal development based on merit and impact
• A competitive compensation model
• Membership of the Newground Alliance, an alliance of fourteen companies employing 280 consultants