Consultant/Senior Consultant

ArcBlue is Asia Pacific's leading procurement and supply-chain consultancy, and we are passionate about delivering client results. We work on impactful, meaningful programmes across the Asia region with some of the most influential companies in the world. As a part of the award-winning Bain and Company, we often do this side-by-side with some of the best strategy consultants in the world.

You will join a team of highly experienced and well-connected specialists delivering innovative procurement solutions to a range of clients, within a range of sectors across the region. We do all this in an exciting, high-energy culture focused on working hard whilst enjoying the ride. In 2022 ArcBlue team members described our culture as Passionate, Authentic, Innovative, Encouraging, Flexible.

From your base in the Hong Kong office, you will have exposure to engagements across a variety of countries such as: Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, and reach as far north as China & Japan or as far south as Australia and NZ.

The role

As a Consultant / Senior Consultant, you will typically be working as part of a team of consultants, playing an active role in helping to deliver positive outcomes for our clients.

You will play an important role in analysing client challenges, developing and testing solutions, formulating and implementing recommendations in collaboration with client team members. This requires working closely with clients, often onsite at the client, and working closely with the team to ensure successful delivery of impact through the project. You will receive coaching & guidance from colleagues along the way, with an expectation that you will develop and deliver client-ready outputs aligned to the case deliverables.

Client engagements can relate to all aspects related to procurement and supply chain value delivery, including (but not limited to):

• Procurement transformations optimise procurement strategies & operating model through diagnostics, design & implementation.
• Savings programmes identification & delivery of tangible savings for clients.
• Supply chain optimisation enhance the supply chain operations.
• Sustainable procurement understand and address sustainability opportunities & challenges across the supply chain, such as Scope 3 decarbonisation, responsible sourcing, circular economy & modern slavery
• Capability development upskill the capabilities of clients through structured learning pathways

These engagements can cover a wide range of industry sectors including, amongst others: FMCG, Advanced Manufacturing, Financial Services, Infrastructure, Private Equity, Agri, Pharma, Energy, Telco and Technology.

What we are looking for:

We are looking for candidates with demonstrable procurement experience through consulting and/or working in industry, with significant exposure in Asia. Our ideal candidate will be able to develop strategy and drive outcomes for our clients and is comfortable working with C-suite stakeholders.

For you to be successful in this role you will need to be able to demonstrate a strong track record in:

• Project delivery: working as part of a team on complex procurement & supply chain projects from start to finish, delivering successful project outcomes on-time and on-budget.
• Procurement expertise: Previous procurement and supply chain experience, ideally assisting clients who have complex, corporate environments on topics such as savings delivery, procurement transformation, capability development, contract management, leading major negotiations, supply chain optimisation, etc.
• Category knowledge: An understanding of direct and/or indirect categories: key value levers, commodity value chains, depth of experience in industry, the strategic relationship between spend categories and corporate strategy & operations
• Stakeholder management: building relationships with internal and external clients through effective communication and engagement skills, managing expectations, identifying and solving issues, and influencing decisions
• Linguistics: Fluency in English, both written & oral. Fluency in additional Asian languages preferred (Bahasa, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Thai in particular)

It should be noted that Consultant / Senior Consultant are required to be willing to travel and engage with our clients onsite.