Senior Consultant Strategic Sourcing

About the role

As a Senior consultant strategic sourcing, you advise our clients in various phases of an IT sourcing project. Our goal is to help clients organize and manage their IT in a way that contributes to their organizational objectives. This can include faster innovation, higher quality, or cost control. By doing so, you support and guide the client as effectively as possible during the digital transformation that many of our clients face. Based on this goal, you and the client formulate the organization’s sourcing strategy. What should the organization handle internally, what can be outsourced, and what is the role of the cloud? All these topics may come up. You develop the business case for sourcing and assist the client in making the right decisions about whether or not to outsource.

Additionally, you take on, in various possible roles, the responsibility for supplier selection together with the client. Highberg carries out many (social) assignments within the public sector, often resulting from a European tender. You can take on a specialized role as a project manager, but also, for example, a generalist role as a quality controller. Thus, the role of Senior consultant strategic sourcing is a diverse one, where you can fulfill different roles for multiple clients simultaneously.

Why Highberg

At Highberg, we believe in doing, not just designing. In partnerships built on trust and shared purpose. Our people work as one, combining humanity, strategy, and deep expertise.

We design – then we deliver

We are both the architects and the builders of transformation, making sure plans become reality.

Hands-on collaboration

We work side by side with clients, committed and invested, taking ownership from start to finish.

Cross European, locally rooted

We combine international scale with strong local presence in The Netherlands and DACH.

Culture as a catalyst

Our culture and way of collaborating create immediate impact and drive sustainable results.

Your main tasks at #Highberg

You might be assisting a client in the financial sector with outsourcing their IT environment to the cloud, or helping a government organization with the procurement of their telephony contracts. The common thread is that you enjoy helping clients achieve optimal setup and management of contracted IT services. This applies to both clients who outsource and Shared Service Organizations. You are adept at identifying the needs of clients, understanding what they aim to achieve with their IT landscape, and advising on what they need to get there. Whether it involves managing suppliers, developing business cases, or drafting an RFI, RFP, Statement of Requirements, or SLA to realize the sourcing strategy, you handle it all with ease!

Who you are

• You enjoy contributing to challenging, socially relevant projects and issues, sometimes individually but mostly as part of a team with other Highberg colleagues.
• You can quickly grasp a problem and articulate it in the simplest possible way.
• You advise from an independent role, independent of products and suppliers.
• You are communicatively skilled and know how to communicate and advise at various levels.
• You bring a commercial mindset, strong analytical skills, and proactive engagement in relationship management, networking, and tender processes.

What we are asking

• A completed HBO (Bachelor’s) or WO (Master’s) degree in the field of information science, organizational science, or business administration.
• You possess knowledge and experience in conducting supplier selections, procurement processes, and contracting of ICT services.
• At least 4 years of experience in IT, Procurement, Contract Management, and/or Service Delivery, or extensive experience in consultancy.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Dutch.

What we are offering

• A competitive salary and excellent benefits including performance pay, provisions for mobility, pension and leave.
• Sincere attention to personal development including coaching by colleagues, access to a wide range of education and training, and a personal development plan with matching investments.
• A place within a challenging and growing organization where taking personal responsibility is valued, with autonomy and freedom to perform your work flexibly and short lines of communication with colleagues.
• A pleasant working environment with an easily accessible office, focus on performance as a team rather than on the individual, and numerous social activities such as get-togethers, sports activities and team meetings.

About the culture

We’re a European transformation consultancy that believes real progress starts with people – their ideas, their energy, their courage to change. Founded in the Netherlands, we’re growing across Europe, bringing together diverse teams united by one ambition: to create lasting impact. Together with our clients, we turn ambition into action and change into enduring results. Curiosity drives us forward, collaboration keeps us connected, and our shared commitment ensures that every transformation becomes something that truly lasts.