Title:  Sourcing Professional Services Senior Consultant

At Chain IQ, your ideas move fast.

Chain IQ is a global AI-driven Procurement Service Partner, headquartered in Baar, Switzerland, with operations across main centers and 16 offices worldwide. We provide tailored, end-to-end procurement solutions that enable transformation, drive scalability, and deliver substantial reductions in our clients' indirect spend. Our culture is built on innovation, entrepreneurship, ownership, and impact. Here, your voice matters - bold thinking is encouraged, and action follows ambition.

Join our Team

It is an exciting time at Chain IQ and our team in Mexico City are looking for a Senior Consultant in the Professional Services category.

Chain IQ generates value far beyond cost reduction. We transform our client’s indirect procurement towards a world-class, resilient, ethical and digitalized end-to-end function. We promote a culture of collaboration and shared excellence while encouraging an open and honest exchange of ideas. We offer the potential for significant corporate growth and career development.

Our ambition is to strengthen the existing highly experienced team to provide the best-in-industry support to our growing client base.

Role Purpose

The primary purpose is to deliver value-add sourcing services to clients in a structured, professional and consistent manner.

Responsibilities

We are currently seeking a Senior Consultant to join the Professional Services Team. The Tactical Sourcer needs to be a dynamic, highly client-focused individual with proven experience within Professional Services (including Consulting, HR, and Legal services).

Main responsibilities will include:

• Intake & Requirement Gathering: Working with client stakeholders to define business needs, project scope, deliverables, timelines, budget expectations, and success criteria for the sourcing request

• Category Strategy Alignment: Determining whether the request aligns with the broader professional services category strategy, preferred supplier programs, frameworks, and rate cards

• Market & Supplier Research: Identifying potential suppliers, understanding market dynamics, benchmarks, delivery models, and competitive differentiators relevant to the professional services need

• Sourcing Strategy Development: Defining the optimal sourcing approach—RFx, strategic negotiation, competitive bidding, direct award, or leveraging an existing MSA/SOW structure

• RFx Creation & Management (RFI/RFQ/RFP): Developing and issuing sourcing documents, including requirements, scoring criteria, commercial templates, and evaluation frameworks

• Bid Evaluation & Analysis: Analyzing supplier proposals across cost, capability, risk, diversity, technical approach, delivery methodology, and compliance to determine best fit

• Financial Analysis & Cost Modeling: Performing rate benchmarking, TCO analysis, cost breakdown validation, negotiation preparation, and scenario comparison to drive savings and value

• Supplier Shortlisting & Recommendations: Facilitating evaluation workshops with stakeholders to identify finalists and prepare recommendation decks documenting the sourcing decision

• Negotiation Strategy & Execution: Leading commercial and operational negotiations—including pricing, rate cards, milestones, SLAs, deliverables, and performance frameworks

• Contract Development & Redlining: Driving completion of the SOW, MSA, or contract—overseeing redlines, aligning commercial terms, managing legal reviews, and resolving open issues

• Stakeholder Alignment & Governance Approvals: Ensuring alignment with business stakeholders, category leadership, finance, legal, and any required procurement governance boards

• Contract Execution & Documentation: Overseeing final signatures and archiving executed agreements in the contract management system

• Supplier Onboarding & Handover: Coordinating with vendor management, AP, and operational teams to ensure supplier onboarding, PO creation, kickoff readiness, and smooth transition post‑contract

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, such as Business Administration, Supply Chain, Finance, or Economics

• 5-10 years of hands‑on sourcing or procurement experience (including conducting commercial evaluations and contract executions) with at least 2 years specifically in Professional Services category sourcing (e.g., consulting, HR services, training, legal services, audit, tax, or contingent labor)

• Fluency in English and Spanish is also critical, given that Professional Services sourcing often involves global suppliers, cross‑regional stakeholders, and complex contract documentation

• The ideal candidate will also have prior experience collaborating with legal, finance, and global category teams, along with a proven ability to manage suppliers and stakeholders across regional and cultural boundaries

Join a truly global team.

We offer a dynamic and international environment where high performance meets real purpose. We're proud to be Great Place to Work-certified and even prouder of the people who make that possible. Let’s shape the future of procurement - together.

Chain IQ – Create. Lead. Make an impact.

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