Senior Consultant, Strategy and Advisory

Senior Consultant, Strategy and Advisory

Since 2011, Optis has been on a mission to make Source-to-Pay projects more efficient, valuable, and enjoyable for the high-growth through Fortune-level companies we serve.

We partner with ambitious leaders across North America to take Source-to-Pay initiatives from inception to accolades, using our proprietary Frame™ process. To date, Optis has successfully deployed solutions across both public and private sector organizations in Canada and the United States, supported by a team of functional and technical specialists.

Headquartered in Vancouver, BC, with offices in Calgary, AB, Toronto, ON, Montreal, QC, and New York City, NY, Optis is a consulting firm solely focused on Source-to-Pay. We create value by supporting the full investment lifecycle—including strategy, implementation, and adoption.

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

A better-than-industry work-life balance

This approach has contributed to a team culture with over 90% employee retention.

Optis provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.

We comply with all applicable federal, provincial, state, and local laws governing nondiscrimination in every location where we operate. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Optis is committed to providing accommodations for individuals with disabilities throughout the recruitment process and employment lifecycle. If you require accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact Human Resources at View email address on apply.j-vers.com.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions. The noise level in the work environment is typically moderate.

Job Description

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

WHYTHIS ROLE

• Get in early on AI in procurement. Mostprocurement teams are still working out what AI means for them. You will helpanswer that question across many clients, and build the playbooks andaccelerators that shape how our practice delivers.
• Strategy and execution in one seat. You will nothand off a deck and walk away. You will design the strategy, prove it withdata, and help stand up the tools and processes that make it stick.
• Build a rare skill set. Workhands on across leading Source-to-Pay suites, enterprise AI platforms, and dataclouds.
• Real responsibility, early. Optis workswith high growth through Fortune level clients, and is small enough that yourideas change how we work. Strong performers grow fast here.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Sourcing& Category Strategy

• Lead diagnostics and maturity assessmentsacross the Source-to-Pay cycle to find where value is being lost.
• Build category strategies across direct andindirect spend that deliver savings, resilience, and supplier innovation.
• Run sourcing initiatives end to end, frommarket analysis and RFx design through negotiation support and award.
• Build business cases and transformationroadmaps that tie every recommendation to a measurable outcome.

AI-EnabledProcurement

• Use enterprise AI tools to accelerate spendclassification, contract review, supplier research, and RFx drafting.
• Design and prototype AI-assisted workflows andagents with clients, and help them move from pilot to everyday use.
• Help clients put practical guardrails around AIin procurement, covering data access, accuracy checks, and governance.
• Build reusable tools and accelerators that makethe team faster and sharper on every engagement.

Data& Technology

• Bring procurement data from ERP, S2P, andsupplier sources together on data cloud platforms to create a single, trustedview of spend.
• Turn that data into insight: spend cubes,savings pipelines, supplier performance dashboards, and early risk signals.
• Advise on S2P technology roadmaps and platformselection, and partner with our implementation teams to bring designs to life.

SupplierPerformance & Risk

• Design supplier segmentation, performancemanagement, and third-party risk frameworks, integrating ESG where it mattersto the client.
• Define KPIs and scorecards, and use live datato keep them current instead of treating them as a once-a-year exercise.

ClientLeadership & Practice Growth

• Present insights and recommendations to seniorexecutives, and become a trusted advisor to them.
• Shape operating models, roles, and governanceso 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 servicesenvironment.
• Hands-on experience across Source-to-Payplatforms such as Coupa, Ivalua, Zip, SAP Ariba, GEP, or similar, whetherthrough implementation, configuration, or day-to-day use.
• Practical experience using enterprise AI toolsto get real work done, and a point of view on where AI helps procurement andwhere it does not.
• A solid grounding in strategic sourcing,category management, and supplier management.
• The ability to turn complex data into a clearstory and present it with confidence to senior stakeholders.
• Curiosity, initiative, and comfort workingthrough 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 automationsfor business workflows.
• Exposure to procurement-specific analytics,intake-to-procure, or AI tools.
• Experience with third-party risk management orsustainable sourcing programs.

TRAVEL

• Ability to travel within Canada and the UnitedStates, up to 40% of the time.

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.