Careers

Constellia is an innovative, fast-growing organisation that is transforming the way our clients buy and manage a wide range of professional services within the procurement space.

Due to a large volume of projects, we have a number of new opportunities for Indirect Procurement Business Partners to come and join us.

We are looking for driven procurement professionals who enjoy working in an energetic environment and are looking for much more than just another procurement job – a growth mindset and appetite to be exceptional and “do things better” are critical.

Reporting to the Chief Procurement Officer, you will be responsible for owning our relationships with major public sector clients – providing direct support with their sourcing requirements. Established in 2007, we manage, and influence spend in over 150 organisations across the UK public and private sectors. Experts in professional services procurement, we now support sourcing all types of indirect spend.

We operate as a Managed Service Provider bringing clients a full procurement solution. In the public sector, this is via the Neutral Vendor Frameworks we run enabling us to offer truly exceptional service standards.

Working with us can be fast-paced; we are a diverse, hard-working team united by a drive to help each other in a fun and friendly way, celebrating our success as a team. From day one with us, you will be a key player in our inclusive and supportive fast-growing business.

This role owns key client relationships and will have responsibility for managing upwards of £50m of indirect spend. Through strategic sourcing and transactional procurement activity, you will work as an extension of the client’s existing procurement function.

Responsibilities

·     Being the primary point of contact for clients

·     Developing relationships with senior client stakeholders

·     Leading and engaging with Constellia colleagues to ensure the successful delivery of support from implementation, procurement operations, finance and legal.

·     Conducting large strategic sourcing procurement activity across a broad range of indirect supply types.

·     Engaging and negotiating with suppliers.

·     Delivery assurance and performance management.

·     Between 5-10 years in indirect strategic sourcing across the public or private sector.

·     A keen sense of ownership – you feel defined by what you deliver.

·     Driven starter-finisher “fixer” – who finds opportunities for improving what we do.

·     Keen to grow skills as the business grows, a growth mindset.

Experience required

·     5-10 years in procurement business partnering roles.

·     Experience in private or public sectors.

·     Indirect spend experience.

·     Knows what good looks like.

If this exciting opportunity sounds like your next role, we would love to hear from you, in return we will be commensurate with experience, excellent benefits, and hybrid/ remote working with the autonomy and support to do your job well.

Please send an updated CV to careers@constellia.com to discuss this further.

About Constellia 

We are the experts in consultancy category management.

Established in 2007, we manage and influence spend in over 150 organisations across the UK public and private sectors.

Our unique Consultancy MSP provides the full solution to a challenging category of spend – critical to which is the calibre of our professionals who front it.

We also operate the Consultancy Procurement Council (“The CPC”), which is the largest global network of consultancy category managers from over 100 of the world’s largest organisations, influencing over £5 billion of spend and giving us unparalleled insight into best practices in this space.

From day one with us, you will be a key player in our inclusive and supportive fast-growing SME. Working at Constellia can be fast-paced; we are a diverse, hard-working team united by a drive to help each other in a fun and friendly way, celebrating our success as a team.

The Role  

You will be responsible for working with key blue-chip clients, fronting our offering and being the personification of everything we do.

This will involve developing spend management strategies and leading the sourcing of projects with big brand and boutique consultants.  

What We Are Looking For 

·     A huge hunger to transform the way consultancy procurement is done (please don’t apply if – you are comfortable with the way consultancy is typically managed)

·     An analytical problem solver (few categories present so many problems for Procurement…)

·     A work ethic second to none (you feel defined by what you deliver)

·     A passionate procurement professional (we need you to be excited about being great at this – we are)

·     An urgency in how you work (we are in a hurry)

·     A sense of horror (at repeating the same old savings cycle every year and ending up as CPO)

·     Someone who is slightly smarter than everyone else in the room in every way (and the Big 4/strategy houses etc, will be in the room)

·     Humility & a growth mindset (we are a fast-growing business and need you to grow with us)

Responsibilities 

·     Developing and executing strategic sourcing strategies

·     Conducting market research to identify potential suppliers, evaluate market trends and leverage market intelligence

·     Establishing and maintaining strong relationships with key suppliers, ensuring supplier performance is monitored

·     Collaborating with internal stakeholders to understand business requirements and develop sourcing plans that align with their needs

·     Driving supplier relationship management activities, including regular business reviews and dispute resolution

·     Monitoring industry trends, technological advancements and best practices in strategic sourcing and recommending service improvements

·    Ensuring compliance with applicable laws, regulations and company policies

Essential Experience/Abilities 

·     Proven experience in strategic sourcing or procurement role, with a focus on enhancing supplier performance

·     Strong understanding of sourcing methodologies and negotiation techniques

·     Effective communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and suppliers

If this exciting opportunity sounds like your next role, we would love to hear from you, in return we will commensurate with experience, excellent benefits, hybrid/ remote working 3 days per week in the London or Nottingham office with the autonomy and support to do your job well, please send an updated CV to careers@constellia.com to discuss further.

Constellia is an innovative, fast-growing organisation which is transforming the way our clients buy and manage a wide range of professional services within the procurement space.

Due to a large volume in projects, we have a new opportunity for a Sales Administrator to join the organisation.

We are looking for an organised, proactive self-starter who is happy to pick up the phone supporting the senior sales team. The role requires an excellent communicator who has experience with CRM systems, lead generation, strong administrator skills, helping set up meetings.

You must be super organised, a multitasker that can manage a series of tasks, pipeline management and research experience would be great.

Based in the Nottingham office, the role could accommodate full time or part time hours.

If this exciting opportunity sounds like your next role, we would love to hear from you, in return we will commensurate with experience, excellent benefits, hybrid/ remote working 3 days per week in the Nottingham office with the autonomy and support to do your job well, please send an updated CV to careers@constellia.com to discuss further.

Constellia is an innovative, fast-growing organisation which is transforming the way our clients buy and manage a wide range of professional services within the procurement space.

Due to a large volume in projects, we have a new opportunity for a Procurement Assistant to join the organisation and work within the procurement team.

Exciting opportunities have arisen to join our Procurement Team, supporting professional services consultancy, accountancy, and other procurement activity in the public and private sectors through our innovative MSP Neutral Vendor Service.

We are looking for someone driven who enjoys working in a dynamic environment and is looking for more than “just another Procurement job.”

Reporting to the Head of Operational Procurement, you will be providing direct support to our clients with their sourcing requirements, managing the end-to-end procurement process using our purpose-built source-to-pay platform.

We are looking for a self-starter who can take ownership of their work, with a passion to learn and develop as our business grows. Our ideal candidate has excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) and is comfortable talking directly to our clients and suppliers. We are searching for reliable individuals who are fast-learners, and we are ready to listen to any suggestions or areas of improvement you find to make our service better. You will have access to senior management to support your career – our vision is that these roles have the potential to develop into more senior positions for the right people.

Responsibilities

·       Provide support to our clients with their procurement sourcing requirements.

·       Managing the end-to-end procurement process

·       Researching and identifying service providers that will be able to deliver excellent service to our clients.

·       Be a key contact to our clients and service providers.

·       Respond to system and support queries.

·       Reviewing new service provider onboarding requests

·       Conducting spend analysis.

·       Filing documents in SharePoint

·       Monitor and maintain inboxes.

·       Organising meetings with clients and service providers

·       General office administration support

Experience required.

·       Graduate qualification

·       1-2 years post-graduation experience of working in an office environment.

·       Basic understanding of what Procurement does

·       Highlight good analytical and evaluative skills in tasks.

·       Strong written and oral communication skills

·       Ability to multitask.

·       Great interpersonal skills

·       Ability to demonstrate attention to detail.

·       Ability to demonstrate how you prioritise and manage your workload effectively.

·       Good working knowledge of Microsoft office (excel, PowerPoint)

If this exciting opportunity sounds like your next role, we would love to hear from you, in return we will commensurate with experience, excellent benefits, hybrid/ remote working 3 days per week in the Nottingham office with the autonomy and support to do your job well, please send an updated CV to careers@constellia.com to discuss further.

Constellia is an innovative, fast-growing organisation which is transforming the way our clients buy and manage a wide range of professional services within the procurement space.

Due to a large volume in projects, we have a number of new opportunities for Indirect Procurement Business Partners to come and join us.

We are looking for driven procurement professionals who enjoy working in an energetic environment and are looking for much more than just another procurement job – a growth-mindset and appetite to be exceptional and “do things better” are critical.

Reporting to the Chief Procurement Officer, you will be responsible for owning our relationships with major public sector clients – providing direct support with their sourcing requirements. Established in 2007, we manage, and influence spend in over 150 organisations across the UK public and private sectors. Experts in professional services procurement, we now support sourcing all types of indirect spend.

We operate as a Managed Service Provider bringing clients a full procurement solution. In the public sector this is via the Neutral Vendor Frameworks we run enabling us to offer truly exceptional service standards.

Working with us can be fast paced; we are a diverse, hard-working team united by a drive to help each other in a fun and friendly way, celebrating our success as a team. From day one with us, you will be a key player in our inclusive and supportive fast-growing business.

This role owns key client relationships and will have responsibility for managing upwards of £50m of indirect spend. Through strategic sourcing and transactional procurement activity you will work as an extension of the clients existing procurement function.

Responsibilities

Being the primary point of contact for clients

Developing relationships with senior client stakeholders

Leading and engaging with Constellia colleagues to ensure the successful delivery of support from implementation, procurement operations, finance and legal.

Conducting large strategic sourcing procurement activity across a broad range of indirect supply types

Engaging and negotiating with suppliers

Delivery assurance and performance management

Between 5-10 years in indirect strategic sourcing across the public or private sector

A keen sense of ownership – you feel defined by what you deliver.

Driven starter-finisher “fixer” – who finds opportunities for improving what we do.
Keen to grow skills as the business grows, a growth-mindset.

Experience required

5-10 years in procurement business partnering roles.

Experience of private or public sectors

Indirect spend experience.

Knows what good looks like

If this exciting opportunity sounds like your next role, we would love to hear from you, in return we will commensurate with experience, excellent benefits, hybrid/ remote working with the autonomy and support to do your job well, please send an updated CV to careers@constellia.com to discuss further.