• Location: London or Leeds (with a requirement to spend 2 days per week in the office or at client site).

Consultants with experience in commercial, procurement, or supply chain transformation - this one's for you.

We’re hiring a consulting-trained Manager to focus on Commercial & Supply Chain Transformation, with responsibility for leading major programmes and owning senior client relationships.

We’re looking for candidates from Big 4 or boutique consulting backgrounds who’ve delivered commercially-driven transformation programmes - including strategic sourcing, cost optimisation, and operating model improvement - ideally within NHS, public sector, or private healthcare environments.

You’ll thrive in this role if you’ve:

• Led large-scale programmes
• Delivered measurable financial impact
• Owned senior stakeholders and programme-level delivery outcomes

At Akeso, you’ll own workstreams end-to-end -> from shaping the problem through to implementing solutions and delivering tracked financial and operational outcomes.

We partner with NHS organisations, Trusts, ICSs, and private healthcare providers operating under real cost and capacity pressure - so the focus is always on commercial impact, value creation, and deliverability, not just recommendations.

Much of our work is delivered at Trust, ICS, and system level, supporting organisations through complex commercial and operational change.

Our work spans:

• Strategic sourcing
• Business case development
• Supply chain optimisation
• Commercial transformation

Helping clients deliver value across key commercial levers: price, demand, process, and risk

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading major client workstreams and acting as day-to-day client lead on complex engagements
• Delivering end-to-end strategic sourcing and commercial transformation programmes
• Owning delivery from diagnosis → strategy → implementation
• Developing business cases, category strategies, and commercial models
• Driving cost optimisation and value creation across procurement and operations
• Working directly with senior clinical, operational, and finance stakeholders
• Leading small teams and being accountable for delivery quality and outcomes

This is a delivery-accountable role - you’ll be responsible for implementation, not just recommendations.

This is a strong fit if:

• You've owned senior client stakeholders and programme‑level delivery outcomes
• You’ve delivered commercial or strategic sourcing programmes with real financial impact
• You’re comfortable operating in NHS or similarly complex, regulated environments (or keen to deepen your NHS exposure)
• You prefer hands-on delivery and ownership, not just advisory work
• You’re currently working in consulting at Manager level (or operating at that level)

It’s not a fit if:

• You haven’t worked in a consulting or client-delivery environment
• Your experience is primarily operational or industry-side procurement
• You’re looking for a role focused primarily on strategy development rather than delivery and implementation

Why join Akeso:

• Meaningful, high-impact work in a sector that matters
• A growing consultancy where you can shape both projects and the firm
• A genuinely end-to-end delivery environment - from strategy through to implementation
• Generous and flexible annual leave
• Enhanced family support
• Private healthcare, life assurance, and EAP
• Dedicated personal and study days
• Pension and long-term wellbeing benefits
• Regular team socials and opportunities to connect
• Hybrid working

If this sounds like you, or if you know someone strong, please apply or share!

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