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Cost Transformation Consultant

Stanton House
Posted 10 hours ago, valid for 13 days
Location

London, Greater London EC1R 0WX

Salary

£96,000 - £115,200 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • A leading energy client is seeking a Cost Transformation Consultant for an initial 3-month contract, offering a day rate between £900 and £1300, depending on experience.
  • The role requires a qualified accountant with at least 5 years of experience in designing and delivering cost transformation initiatives within a retail or consumer business.
  • The consultant will partner with the COO to identify cost optimization opportunities and develop a cost reduction plan while ensuring customer experience is not negatively impacted.
  • Key responsibilities include assessing the business, implementing organizational design changes, and reshaping the technology base to achieve cost efficiencies.
  • This hybrid role involves travel to Central London as needed, and strong stakeholder management skills are essential for influencing the executive team.

One of our energy clients is looking for a Cost Transformation specialist to support the business stripping out costs enterprise wide.

Role: Cost Transformation Consultant

Contract: 3 months initially

Day rate: £900-£1300pd Outside IR35 - depending on experience

Location: Hybrid role with travel required as and when needed to Central London

We are currently working with a utilities business who are looking to strip out costs across the business. They are looking for a Cost Transformation Consultant to partner with the COO to influence the exec team on what they need to do from a cost perspective. They are looking for someone who can assess the business and find opportunities for cost optimization, shape a cost reduction plan and then follow it through to delivery.

This may include looking at cost optimization, cost efficiency, looking at how technology can be used to reduce costs and organisation design/restructures to reduce headcounts. They are after someone who can formulate these plans from scratch and then successfully deliver these cost reduction initiatives without damaging/affecting their customer experience.

Key requirements:

  • Must have designed and delivered Cost Transformation initiatives, stripping out costs enterprise wide
  • Qualified accountant
  • Must have worked within a retail or consumer business (Utilities, energy, retail, telco etc)
  • Experience restructuring a business and leading an organisational design initiative
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, able to influence the board on what cost cutting initiative they need to embark on
  • Experience reshaping the technology base of a business in order to strip out costs

This is an initial 3 month contract outside IR35 with travel as and when required to central London.

If you feel you meet the above criteria, please do apply. Unfortunately given the number of applications, we may be unable to respond to all unsuccessful applications.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.