Consultant Procurement (Marketing, IT, Professional Services)

Project overview

+ Consulting a company in the sports apparel/clothing sector regarding cost savings in procurement for indirect spends+

+ Finding quick wins, finding new suppliers, challenging existing suppliers+

+ Accompanying the process end-to-end+

+ Providing best practices for concrete savings potentials

Requirements

Marketing

Experienced expert in marketing purchasing and agency management with a strong mix of purchasing and marketing experience, ideally in a global consumer goods, sports apparel, retail, or similarly brand-oriented company

Experience in optimizing creative, marketing, production, and event agency costs, as well as in realizing concrete savings

Experience in transitioning from fragmented agency and freelancer assignments to preferred agency networks, including consolidation, tenders, framework agreements, compensation models, and supplier management

Expertise in structural savings beyond price negotiations, especially in demand and scope optimization, agency fees, production costs, and external service markups

Ability to contribute concrete best practices and impulses for a preferred supplier model and to support purchasing in discussions with marketing

Experience in the functional design of RFP (Request for Proposal) packages

IT – Profile 1: IT Generalist

Experience in IT purchasing, ideally in the fashion industry, online retail, retail, or consumer goods sector

Ability to quickly identify above-average costs, redundancies, and consolidation potentials based on expenditures, providers, contracts, and use cases

Experience with software contracts, licensing models, and identifying concrete quick wins

Ability to accompany the process from analysis to the implementation of savings measures

IT – Profile 2: Provider and Contract Expert

In-depth expertise on the respective providers, their solutions, licensing models, and negotiation margins

Experience in analyzing and optimizing existing software contracts with leading technology companies

Priority A: Alphabet with Google Workspace, Gemini and Looker, Microsoft with mandatory experience in Dynamics 365 as well as Salesforce, Slack, Contentful, and Own Company

Priority B: SPS Commerce, Infor, Workday, Anaplan, and Narvar

Ability to quickly review existing contracts and identify concrete savings, consolidation, and renegotiation potentials

Ideally, one person can cover both IT profiles.

Professional Services

Practical experience in purchasing and managing external services in consumer goods, apparel, footwear, or sports apparel companies

Category expertise in financial services including accounting and auditing, legal services, management consulting, and ideally temporary staffing

Knowledge of leading providers, market mechanisms, compensation models, and concrete savings levers

Legal Services: Experience with service portfolios, price comparisons, compensation models, and law firm panels

Auditing: Experience with audit fees, regulatory requirements, and negotiation margins

Experience in identifying quick wins, selecting new suppliers, and accompanying the sourcing process from analysis to implementation

Additional Information:

Project No.: 1085331

Job Type: Location: Start: 11/16/2026 Duration: 30-60 hours +++

Project details

• Start: 16.11.2026
• Duration: 30-60 Stunden +++
• Location: DE
• Languages: German