Vice President - Professional Services
About this role
The opportunity
As a Vice President at Proxima, you will provide executive leadership across clients, teams, and the firm. This role blends deep domain expertise, client delivery, business development, and thought leadership.
Within the Professional Services category, you will lead high-profile workstreams, shape long-term client strategy, develop Proxima’s capability through IP and people development, and play a key role in Proxima’s continued growth through being a visible subject matter expert.
What you’ll do:
Be a key Professional Services SME:
Lead complex, high-value workstreams for senior and C-Suite stakeholders whilst ensuring consistent delivery and client satisfaction
Shape and develop Proxima’s wider capability to deliver these workstreams at scale
Have a reputation externally as a Professional Services SME to drive potential client discussions
Genuine Professional Services category expertise across Audit, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Consulting, Insurance, and Legal services.
Experience within Financial Services categories, particularly Payments and Corporate Cards, would be highly advantageous.
Lead executive‑level client engagements
Drive growth and market impact
Build and manage senior client relationships and pipelines
Identify and convert new growth opportunities
Contribute to Proxima’s market positioning and thought leadership
Develop talent and culture
Mentor and develop senior consulting talent
Champion Proxima’s apprenticeship and feedback culture
Foster high‑performance, inclusive teams
Shape the future of Proxima
Lead domain expertise, IP creation, and capability development
Act as a Proxima ambassador internally and externally
Influence strategic direction and firm‑wide initiatives
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
Executive experience
Extensive consulting and leadership experience with Professional services.
Proven ability to influence C‑suite and senior stakeholders
Strong commercial, financial, and strategic acumen
Leadership presence
Executive gravitas and credibility
Ability to inspire confidence, challenge constructively, and drive change
Strong emotional intelligence and people leadership
Growth mindset
Track record of growing teams, clients, and capabilities
Comfort balancing strategy and execution
Long‑term perspective on value creation
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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