Senior Consultant - Capital Procurement
About this role
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.
Company at a glance
Proxima works with Chief Procurement Officers who expect procurement to deliver measurable performance, support growth, and lead with confidence. We help CPOs strengthen procurement capability, improve commercial outcomes, and build high-performing teams that can operate at scale in complex organizations.
Procurement for the Bold is about making clear commercial choices, acting decisively, and backing procurement to deliver real impact.
CPOs work with Proxima to
- Deliver cost and value outcomes that stand up to executive scrutiny
- Strengthen category strategy, sourcing decisions, and supplier leverage
- Build procurement operating models that support growth
- Equip procurement teams with the skills, tools, and confidence to perform
- Increase procurement’s credibility with the C suite and the board
We focus on what works in practice, not theory.
Expertise that delivers.
Our teams bring deep functional procurement experience and understand the realities of running procurement in large, complex organizations. We work alongside client teams to ensure improvements are embedded in day-to-day operations, not left as recommendations.
Proxima is part of Bain & Company, combining the focus of a specialist procurement consultancy with access to global insight, scale, and best practice.
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Procurement performance depends on people as much as process. We help CPOs build procurement functions that attract strong talent, develop future leaders, and create teams that are confident, capable, and commercially respected.
If you believe procurement should lead with confidence and deliver at pace, you are in the right place.
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