Senior Consultant, Supply Chain Resilience

Description

Join a global profession services leader committed to solving the worlds biggest challenges across energy transport utilities and urbanisation.

The Role
This role willbe tasked with expandingtheSupplyChainResilienceverticalas it isestablishedand focus is on helping clients understandquantifyand respond to supply chain disruption through a combination of risk insight freightmodellingregulatoryalignmentand commercial strategy.

We envision the supply chain resilience advisory vertical as an integrated capability that helpsorganisationsstrengthen resilience improve visibility and respond more effectively to risk across critical supply chains.

• Asset capability and capacity
• Geopolitical tensions and regulatory change
• Supply chain disruption from human-driven shocks and climate change drivers
• Network visibility collaboration flexibility and control
  

The successful candidate will be a systems thinker who can connect operational realities asset characteristicsmarketdynamicsandgeopolitics as well asclientvalue while helping shape the offer win priority opportunities andbuild the foundations of a scalable team. The role also requires a consulting mindset: working across multidisciplinary teams contributing to proposition development and helping clients translate complex resilience challenges into practical deliverable strategies.

KeyResponsibilities

• Developthe Supply Chain Resilience offer acrosslogisticsand supply chain consultingbuilding on ourpropositionandmethodologieswhile expandingpriority growth opportunities.
• Identifyand progresspriority client opportunities supporting business development proposalsbidsand early-stage delivery as the vertical grows.
• Advise clients on supply chain resilience challenges including risk exposure corridor dependency freight flows continuityplanningand the wider commercial implications of disruption.
• Translate complex operationalcommercialand regulatory issues into clearimplementationstrategiesthat deliver measurable client value and support practicaloutcomes.
• Use freight modelling origin-destination analysis and wider supply chain insight to assess vulnerabilities modelscenariosandidentifyimprovement opportunities.
• Work across adjacent topics such as compliance policyinfrastructureand operational transformation where they intersect with resilience outcomes.
• Be a clear advocate who can champion adoption define practical use cases support responsible experimentation and embed LLM augmentation into delivery methods rather than treating it as a standalone tool.
• Help define the methodologies propositions and delivery approaches that will support future team growth and the long-term development of the vertical.
• Collaborate with colleagues across advisory technical and sector teams to bring together multidisciplinary solutions that respond to complex client challenges.

Key Skills & Experience Required

We are looking for a commercially minded systems thinkerwhoisable tomove across multiple problems understandhow supply chain infrastructure contractspolicyand operations interact and turn that understanding into practical recommendations and strategic value for clients. They should be comfortable operating as a sellerdoerwith the credibility to engage senior stakeholders while also helping to shape communicationcollaborationand the ability to navigate ambiguity will be important particularly in an emerging space where the individual will help define how the offer develops in the market.

Experience and Background

• Experience in management consulting strategic advisory or commercial leadership within operationallogistics portsfreightor broader supply chain environments.
• Strong understanding of supply chain resilience risk freight modellinglogisticsflows businesscontinuityor operational strategy.
• Ability to connect operational issues to commercial outcomes clientprioritiesand consulting value creation with a practical understanding of how strategic advice translates into implementation.
• Experience working with senior client stakeholders on complex cross-functional challenges and building credibility across multidisciplinary teams.
• Understanding of regulatory contractual or compliance considerations affectinglogisticsand supply chain performance would be valuable.
• LLM-enabled delivery augmentation will be a critical skill enabling teams to accelerate analysis synthesis scenario development and client-ready outputs while maintaining appropriate human judgement quality control and governance.
• Track recordof supporting business development helping win work shaping propositions or building new capabilities would be highly desirable.

Why Join Us
This is an opportunity to play a defining role in a growing advisory proposition helping shape how supply chain resilience consulting develops within the business. You will work across multidisciplinary teams on strategic client opportunities combining operationalcommercialand regulatory thinking to deliver meaningful outcomes. The role offers scope to influence proposition development client relationships and long-term market positioning while building your own profile in an emerging and high-impact area.

Our Commitment to You
We are committed to creating an inclusivecollaborativeand flexible environment where people can do their best work grow their careers and contribute meaningfully to shared success. We value curiosity practical problem-solving and diverse perspectives and we want every team member to have the support development and opportunity needed to make a lasting impact.

About GHD
Being the best we can be is in our culture. We are a family of smart innovative problemsolvers and as an employee-owned organisation we take a long-term view in everything we do.

Working Location
This role can be based in one of our UKofficesandweoperateaHybrid Working Standard across the Enterprise with a minimum of three days per week at a GHD office.

What next
If shortlisted our interview process will be a two-way conversation where you can learn more about our business oursectorsand the role this position plays in supporting GHDs growth.

Interested Apply now.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC

Employment Type : Contract
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1