Position: Sourcing Consultant

Reporting to: CEO

Base Location: Home based (Travel as Required)

Main Responsibilities

Supporting our CEO and other consultants in delivering world-class sourcing projects to our buy and sell side clients by playing your part in delivery of our projects (subject to your field of expertise and experience).

You will lead the delivery of your own projects or form part of a team (as required) and take responsibility for looking after your clients needs.

You will have a part to play in business development, meeting potential clients, creating proposals, delivering sales presentations and preparing contracts as well as developing opportunities with existing clients. With an objective to drive some of your own new client opportunities.

All our consultants have the opportunity to participate in service and product development based on your areas of interest and expertise.

You will form a big part of building our business and continuing to perpetuate our culture internally and externally.

Essential Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Deep experience of working in the technology industry as a buyer or supplier of services with practical experience of all stages of the sourcing lifecycle.
• Extensive commercial experience, with a good understanding of contracting, pricing and commercial models.
• Confident negotiator able to handle difficult conversations and drive positive results.
• Excellent stakeholder skills and adept at collaboration.
• Articulate, a clear communicator able to lead and engage with clients and suppliers across all channels
• Engergised and results focused
• Adaptable and flexible can handle multiple priorities
• Excellent IT skills especially in Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel
• Experience of bid management

Desirable Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Understanding of current and emerging technologies
• Experience of the full RFP lifecycle and design
• Experience of contract management buyer side, or account management supplier side
• Previous experience in a small/medium enterprise or startup
• Programme management and transition management experience
• Benchmarking process experience
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Expected Ways of Working

• The Horizon Seven DNA is key to who we are and our reputation in the market as well as our ways of working. Our values are Curiosity, Passion and Collaboration
• We are team players - always
• Quality is at the core of how we work with our clients, with each team member being accountable for obtaining an overall score of 9 or above NPS on all client engagements
• We use Covey’s- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People as our guiding principles internally and with clients – these are;

1. Be proactive
2. Begin with the end in mind
3. Put first things first
4. Think win/win
5. Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
6. Synergize.
7. Sharpen the saw.