The opportunity
As a Senior Consultant at Proxima in our Directs 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
Assist with opportunity identification, supplier research, and commercial analysis.
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
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
Consulting experience, ideally within Directs Procurement, ideally gained within a manufacturing/industrial environment.
Experience working across different category areas, including any of the following: manufacturing, fabrication, industrial, commodity, BOM, COGS, supply chain, value chain, value engineering, specification, components, equipment, raw materials, bags, bottle, bulk packaging, cans, closures, corrugated, drums, fiber, plastics, metal.
A background within Automotive, utilities, aerospace and/or chemicals would be advantageous.
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.
PROXIMA IS A WORLD-LEADING PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY CHAIN CONSULTANCY
We work alongside some of the world’s largest and most successful businesses to help them spend their money wisely and deliver purposeful and profitable change. We do this through an extensive suite of procurement consultancy services focused on cost optimization, organizational transformation, supply chain sustainability, and decarbonization. We are famous for our delivery as experienced specialists immersed in businesses, accelerating outcomes.
We are proud to be part of Bain & Company - the leading management consultancy. Together, we deliver a set of integrated end-to-end procurement, supply chain, and supply chain sustainability offerings.
