Senior Consultant, Strategy and Advisory

Optis Consulting is hiring a Senior Consultant, Strategy and Advisory to join our Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, or Montreal team.

You will help clients rethink how they source, buy, and manage suppliers, using a modern toolkit: Source-to-Pay platforms like Coupa, Ivalua, and SAP Ariba, enterprise AI tools, and the data cloud platforms where procurement data now lives. One week you are building a category strategy with a CPO. The next, you are turning messy spend data into an AI-assisted savings pipeline.

This role requires strong analytical ability, commercial acumen, and a deep understanding of sourcing, procurement strategy, and category management. The ideal candidate thrives in a consulting environment, can translate complex data into clear insights, and enjoys engaging with executive-level stakeholders to shape high-impact procurement strategies.

Requirements

WHY THIS ROLE

• Get in early on AI in procurement. Most procurement teams are still working out what AI means for them. You will help answer that question across many clients, and build the playbooks and accelerators that shape how our practice delivers.
  
• Strategy and execution in one seat. You will not hand off a deck and walk away. You will design the strategy, prove it with data, and help stand up the tools and processes that make it stick.
  
• Build a rare skill set. Work hands on across leading Source-to-Pay suites, enterprise AI platforms, and data clouds. 
  
• Real responsibility, early. Optis works with high growth through Fortune level clients, and is small enough that your ideas change how we work. Strong performers grow fast here. 
  

RESPONSIBILITIES

Sourcing & Category Strategy

• Lead diagnostics and maturity assessments across the Source-to-Pay cycle to find where value is being lost.
  
• Build category strategies across direct and indirect spend that deliver savings, resilience, and supplier innovation.
  
• Run sourcing initiatives end to end, from market analysis and RFx design through negotiation support and award.
  
• Build business cases and transformation roadmaps that tie every recommendation to a measurable outcome.
  

AI-Enabled Procurement

• Use enterprise AI tools to accelerate spend classification, contract review, supplier research, and RFx drafting.
  
• Design and prototype AI-assisted workflows and agents with clients, and help them move from pilot to everyday use.
  
• Help clients put practical guardrails around AI in procurement, covering data access, accuracy checks, and governance.
  
• Build reusable tools and accelerators that make the team faster and sharper on every engagement.
  

Data & Technology

• Bring procurement data from ERP, S2P, and supplier sources together on data cloud platforms to create a single, trusted view of spend.
  
• Turn that data into insight: spend cubes, savings pipelines, supplier performance dashboards, and early risk signals.
  
• Advise on S2P technology roadmaps and platform selection, and partner with our implementation teams to bring designs to life.
  

Supplier Performance & Risk

• Design supplier segmentation, performance management, and third-party risk frameworks, integrating ESG where it matters to the client.
  
• Define KPIs and scorecards, and use live data to keep them current instead of treating them as a once-a-year exercise.
  

Client Leadership & Practice Growth

• Present insights and recommendations to senior executives, and become a trusted advisor to them.  
  
• Shape operating models, roles, and governance so new ways of working last after we leave.
  
• Contribute to proposals and thought leadership, mentor junior team members, and help grow the practice.
  
  

QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of experience in procurement, sourcing, or supply chain, ideally within a consulting or professional services environment.
  
• Hands-on experience across Source-to-Pay platforms such as Coupa, Ivalua, Zip, SAP Ariba, GEP, or similar, whether through implementation, configuration, or day-to-day use.
  
• Practical experience using enterprise AI tools to get real work done, and a point of view on where AI helps procurement and where it does not.
  
• A solid grounding in strategic sourcing, category management, and supplier management.
  
• The ability to turn complex data into a clear story and present it with confidence to senior stakeholders.
  
• Curiosity, initiative, and comfort working through ambiguity in a fast-moving environment.
  
• A bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
  

Nice to have

• Experience building AI agents or automations for business workflows.
  
• Exposure to procurement-specific analytics, intake-to-procure, or AI tools.
  
• Experience with third-party risk management or sustainable sourcing programs.
  

TRAVEL

• Ability to travel within Canada and the United States, up to 40% of the time.
  

Benefits

WORKING AT OPTIS

We pride ourselves on being different from larger consulting firms by offering meaningful opportunities to make an impact and accelerate your career growth.

Our employees benefit from:

• Competitive compensation
  
• A transparent and predictable bonus structure
  
• Comprehensive extended health and wellness benefits
  
• 4 wellness days; a day a quarter to recharge, on top of your vacation
  
• Additional paid time off during our annual holiday break
  
• Paid parental leave designed to support you and your family
  
• A better than industry work-life balance
  

This approach has contributed to a team culture with over 90% employee retention.

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