FILLED: (ref # DM4193) International Supply Chain/Procurement Consultants

International Supply Chain/Procurement Consultants
Permanent,
London, France or Germany Based,
Competitive Salary,
Immediate start

Role Summary
Our client is a global business-advisory consulting firm. Their London, French and German offices have a number of opportunities for bright, hands-on, results oriented, experienced consultants keen to operate on local and international engagements.

Clients are medium to large companies who require concrete change that will positively impact their immediate and long term future.

CV's will be sent to he client on 24th February. Cv's arriving after that date may be considered but will not be in the initial search.

Details
The roles are for consultants with minimum relevant professional experience of greater than 4 years for an Associate and greater than 8 years for a Vice President.

The roles are focussed on Supply Chain and Procurement.

Areas of activity include:

* Supply chain logistics and procurement
* Manufacturing Operations
* Lean manufacturing
* Top line improvement (pricing, growth),

Industries are typically retail, consumer goods and process industries

The roles require the ability to travel with 100% flexibility.

Key skills and Requirements
Mandatory

* Must have consultancy experience with top (UK) consulting firms. A mix of industry and consulting experience is a plus.
* Must have Supply Chain or Procurement experience, bringing bottom line improvement at a client or for a company
* Must be hands-on, number savvy, highly analytical with attention to detail, proactive, entrepreneurial and able to work autonomously or as part of a team.
* For French / German roles - fluency in the local language.

Other

* English plus another language is an advantage.
* For the VP roles candidates should be able to demonstrate their own professional network

FILLED (ref # DB6113) IT Org Design / Talent Development Consultant

IT Org Design / Talent Development Consultant
Interim,
£competitive rate,
6 mths +,
S/W London & Iraq

Role Summary
Our client, a global energy company, is involved in one of the world's largest engineering projects to re-build Iraq's oil fields.

The company's IT Dev & Communications organisation in the region is currently has a high dependency on ex-patriot employees and sub-contractors as there is a material shortage of appropriately skilled IT resource in the area. However, the longer term goal is to develop local talent to take on these roles.

To achieve this, they require an Arab-speaking Organisation Design / Talent development consultant with IT Organisation experience to identify IT roles which could eventually be filled by local talent, and recommend the appropriate up-skilling interventions required.

Role
* Define the structure of the IT Function roles and organisation (using client best practice alongside local knowledge)
* Recommend which IT roles can be developed first to be filled by local talent
* Liaise with local SMEs to determine the best framework for developing local talent for designated roles (e.g. work shadowing, secondment, training etc)


Key skills and Requirements

* Ability to speak and understand Arabic, coupled with experience of working in the Middle East
* Experience in Organisational Design / Talent Development in an IT environment
* Experience of developing talent by moving people to a new operating model

This role will be based at the company's HQ in South West London with 1-2 weeks travel per month to the client's secure facilities in Iraq.

FILLED: Learning & Development Programme Specialist

Learning & Development Programme Specialist Permanent,


£55-65K + excellent benefits package


South-West London



Role Summary

Our client, one of the world's largest energy companies, is embarking upon a transformation of its global procurement and supply chain management function (approx 2,500 employees).

They require an experienced functional learning and development specialist to define a new L&D Programme for the function and design and implement L&D approaches which will develop technical and functional skills at all levels.

Note that whilst this is a permanent full-time requirement, the client may also have a part-time requirement, so candidates considering this option should also apply.

Deadline for response: Wednesday 15th February 12 pm.
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Details

The L&D Programme Specialist will report to the L&D Development Manager and will programme manage the operations of all L&D development activity globally within the Procurement and Supply Chain Management function. Specific roles include:


* Conducting a learning needs analysis to assess the requirements for L&D across regions
* Designing the L&D course schedule and defining the most appropriate delivery channels
* Engaging with course SMEs to improve content and create new L&D courses
* Identifying and managing 3rd party L&D suppliers in specialist procurement / supply chain areas
* Providing consultation and instructional design expertise into the development of courses
* Implementing a communication plan to ensure that the function is aware of the L&D courses
* Managing the training calendar and working with the L&D operations team to ensure smooth delivery of the course curriculum
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Key skills and Requirements

To be considered for this role, the candidate must possess:


* Experience of Learning & Development at all stages (e.g. from needs analysis through to curriculum planning and course delivery)
* Experience in learning design and instructional design of new learning offers
* Stong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills - the ability to engage, influence and gain consensus amongst a global network of peers and stakeholders
* Batchelors degree or equivalent
Previous experience of learning within a procurement / supply chain environment would be advantageous but is not a pre-requisite.
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FILLED (ref # DB6111) Global Change Manager

Global Change Manager
Interim, 3 months+, North-West
Competitive Rate, Early March start

Role Summary

Our client, a Global FTSE 100 company, is embarking upon an enterprise-wide Information Management programme to implement new ways in which it creates, stores, protects, shares, exploits and disposes of information throughout its entire business operations.

An experienced change management consultant with expertise in cultural change is required to plan and deliver the change activities to affect the required changes in behaviour across the organisation and embed new skillsets as appropriate.

Deadline for response: Monday 7th February 12 pm.

Details

Working within the recently formed group to set up to define and implement the new Enterprise Information Management strategy, the scope of this role includes:

* Defining stakeholders and sponsors and ensuring their buy in to the change activities impacting their areas
* Designing and delivering appropriate change activities to change behaviours towards information management in accordance with new practices
* Defining appropriate change activities to enable the right level of information management proficiency and skills required by impacted user groups
* Ensuring that all new programmes that touch upon Information Management incorporate relevant IM training, communication, procedures etc.

Key skills and Requirements

* Experienced in planning and delivering the change management aspects of global change programmes

* Experienced in effecting cultural change (embedding new behaviours and attitudes) at senior management and organisation-wide level in large organisations (40,000
+ employees)

Knowledge of, or exposure to, Information Management practices would be advantageous

FILLED (ref # DB6110) Enterprise Information Management Consultant

Enterprise Information Management Consultant
Interim, 2 months,
North-East
Competitive Rate, Early March start

Role Summary

Our client, a Global FTSE 100 company, is setting up an Enterprise Information Function to define and embed new ways in which it creates, stores, protects, shares, exploits and disposes of information throughout its entire business operations.

An SME in Information Management is required to provide expert advice and guidance into the identification and development of these new information management practices, and also into the process of assessing the current state of the client's most important information assets.

Deadline for response: Monday 7th February 12 pm.

Details

Working within the recently formed Enterprise Information Management Function, this role includes the following activities:

* Defining the best approach to identifying the client's most important information assets
* Providing best practice input based on how other companies have conducted similar operations
* Proposing methods for identifying, gathering, and analysing the key information and the level of granularity required
* Giving expert advice into the development of tools for visualisation and reporting
* Assessing the 'health' of the information analysed against the new information management principles

Key skills and Requirements

* Subject Matter Expertise in defining Enterprise-wide strategies and approaches for Information Management in similar sized global corporate environments (40,000
+ people)
* Experience in evaluating corporate information assets
* Understanding of best practice in Enterprise Information Management