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.

• Learn more at: optisconsulting.com/about/