Senior Public Procurement Consultant M/F
About the company
EPSA is a European group, a specialist in performance. We optimize the financial, operational, and sustainable results of our clients.
Recognized for our technical know-how and the diversity of our business expertise. Our solutions platform is built around procurement performance, innovation financing, and the energy and environmental transition.
Present in about forty countries, with 5,000 committed employees and a net turnover of €600M, we are the reference partner for any organization wishing to improve its productivity and profitability.
Driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and a desire for positive impact, we rely on the diversity of our expertise to strengthen performance.
At EPSA GROUPE, we are driven by the conviction that the company of tomorrow will be responsible. Today, this ambition leads us to build a group with high human added value. Through an ambitious CSR policy and the EPSA Foundation, EPSA acts actively and collectively on the ground to meet the social, societal, and environmental challenges of our societies. Diversity and inclusion are at the heart of the corporate strategy, and EPSA is committed to guaranteeing equal treatment for all, regardless of gender, health status, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, disability, etc. Indeed, EPSA places the respect and promotion of everyone's fulfillment and achievement at the heart of its challenges.
Your tasks
- Supporting the financial performance of companies by optimizing all social and tax charges, by supporting innovation financing, searching for subsidies, or managing financial risks.
- Operational support for all key functions or company transformation projects: Procurement, Digital & IT, Operations & Supply Chain, Transformation.
- Strengthening savings searches (costs, process optimization...) by providing our best experts or relevant outsourcing solutions.
Finally, we know how to respond to environmental performance challenges, ranging from ESG regulatory dimensions, energy performance plans, or sustainable mobility, to the definition and implementation of true CSR, climate, or decarbonization strategies.
As a senior public procurement consultant, you will act as a procurement expert and operational manager of a team at one of our clients based in Paris.
You are the guarantor of the quality of deliverables, respect for deadlines, and the overall performance of the missions.
For this position, your main missions will be the following:
- Operational Steering & Management
- Manage the team's workload and coordinate activities
- Prioritize actions and anticipate risks
- Supervise, support, and develop the skills of consultants
- Control the quality of produced deliverables
- Ensure the continuity of files in case of consultant absence
- Procurement Expertise & Consulting
- Lead complex procurement files
- Define procurement strategies and support the expression of needs
- Implement procurement performance levers
- Conduct supplier negotiations
- Integrate CSR issues into procurement strategies
- Project Management
- Plan, organize, and steer missions
- Monitor deadlines, workload, and risks
- Lead internal and client meetings
- Ensure clear and concise reporting
Requirements
With a Master's degree (Bac+5) in procurement or as a lawyer specializing in public procurement, you have significant experience in a complex environment.
You have more than 10 years of experience in complex procurement and at least 6 years of experience in public procurement (type contracting authority).
Technical Skills
- Excellent mastery of public procurement regulations
- Expertise in procurement techniques and levers
- Good mastery of procurement tools and databases
- Mastery of office tools
- Operational English (oral and written);
Behavioral Skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Analytical and synthesis skills
- Risk management oriented approach
- Leadership and team spirit
- Adaptability
- Pedagogy and support
- Ease in complex or sensitive contexts
- Proactive and autonomous