A

Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Sourcing & Procurement Manager

Operations & Supply Chain ConsultingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-time

About the Job

Requirements

  • A minimum of 5 years of management consulting experience supporting procurement and/or strategic sourcing initiatives is required.
  • A bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience (minimum 12 years) is required; with an associate degree, a minimum of 6 years of work experience is required.
  • A minimum of 3 years of experience focusing on spend optimization is required.

Responsibilities

  • Develop overall project plans and lead all parts of the client engagement.
  • Manage project support resources and coordinate with subject matter experts from within and outside the firm.
  • Develop creative cost reduction strategies and recommendations.
  • Present to client executives.
  • Build consensus among client stakeholders.
  • Develop and nurture relationships with clients.
  • Support the development of internal strategies, intellectual capital, and deliverables.
  • Support client sales origination.
  • Assess client expenditures and identify targets to reduce costs and improve quality.
  • Conduct strategic sourcing within companies and across private equity portfolios.
  • Perform procurement process reengineering.
  • Run most aspects of client cost optimization or procurement process optimization projects, including project management, client and supplier communications, supplier negotiations, and delivery of results.
  • Actively lead and mentor consultant and analyst resources.

Desired Qualifications

  • Demonstrated ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
  • Strong analytical skills, including the ability to manage resources performing complex analytics to develop client decision-support data.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to present comfortably to senior executives.
  • Ability to build and develop relationships, oversee complex programs, and demonstrate leadership.
  • An MBA or equivalent graduate degree.
  • Prior experience using visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, and Alteryx, and analytics tools such as Adobe Analytics and Google Analytics.
  • Interest and passion for supporting the development of junior team members.

About the Company

Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Accenture advises large businesses and public agencies on strategy, builds their technology systems and runs ongoing operations. Its teams connect business planning with implementation, covering areas such as cloud migration, cybersecurity and customer experience. Consultants work with clients to redesign processes, while engineers integrate software from technology partners and maintain the resulting systems for multinational organizations. Clients pay for project work or continuing services, including application support and business processes such as finance and customer service. Accenture was founded in 1989 and has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Dublin, Ireland
Founded
1989

Recently Posted Jobs

Explore more opportunities at Accenture

See more jobs