Managing Consultant - Public Services - Complex Procurement, London

Firm: PA Consulting

Location: London, United Kingdom

• Join a team where you’re trusted to shape your own path, manage your time, and influence real change for our clients and communities.
• Grow a flexible and unique career within a trust‑based, inclusive environment that values excellence, innovation, and curiosity.
• Be part of a team actively shaping the Public Services sector and tackling issues that impact our everyday lives.
• Join other experts within our supportive and collaborative community through knowledge‑sharing and peer‑level support, coaching and mentoring.

• Lead delivery of complex commercial programmes
  • Shape, lead and deliver large‑scale procurements, commercial strategies and transactions across UK central government and arm’s‑length bodies.
• Drive tangible impact for clients
  • Provide insight, challenge and structure across complex commercial, contractual, sourcing and supplier‑management activities.
  • Help clients solve problems that span commercial, operational and policy boundaries.
• Develop propositions and support practice growth
  • Contribute to go‑to‑market activity and help evolve our PS commercial offerings in line with client demand and market trends.

• Consulting background delivering public‑sector complex transactions under UK public procurement regulations; able to operate as commercial business partner, not just as a “procurement lead”.
• Tech‑centric deal experience: outsourcing, platforms/ERP, telecoms/emergency communications, or analogous “novel tech” procurements.
• End‑to‑end commercial lifecycle: business case shaping, ITT & market engagement, evaluation design, negotiation, contract award, and mobilisation/implementation support.
• Numeracy & VFM judgment: can design incentive‑compatible evaluations, quantify ROI, and structure performance regimes suppliers will sign up to and excel against.
• Stakeholder command: comfortable with commercial directors, procurement lawyers, SROs, programme directors, technical leads, and supplier executives.

• Competitive compensation package.
• Health and lifestyle perks including private healthcare for you and your family.
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Annual performance‑based bonus and PA share ownership.
• Tax‑efficient benefits such as cycle‑to‑work and give‑as‑you‑earn.

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Job information
Firm: PA Consulting
Location: London, United Kingdom