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Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Global Procurement Director - HR & Professional Services Categories

Procurement & SourcingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeParis, FranceNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Hold a bachelor’s-level degree or equivalent.
  • Have at least 15 years of procurement experience, including at least 10 years in the Human Resources services category and/or at least 7 years in the Professional Services category, with broad coverage of marketing, legal, and financial services subcategories.
  • Have at least 10 years of experience managing, supervising, or coaching teams.
  • Demonstrate the ability to attract, build, coach, and lead a high-performing, cohesive team.
  • Work effectively and collaboratively with colleagues across functions and geographies.
  • Have proven experience leading cross-functional teams through a structured sourcing process.
  • Have strong communication, organizational, time-management, and problem-solving skills.
  • Have a strong track record of building and developing stakeholder relationships that result in high client satisfaction.
  • Be proficient in end-to-end processes, including category management, sourcing, contracting, Procure-to-Pay (P2P), and account management, with a strong focus on process improvement.
  • Understand business issues and be able to oversee sourcing activities globally.
  • Identify situations requiring escalation and determine when and how to escalate appropriately.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Human Resources and Professional Services categories for Procurement Plus (P+), overseeing strategic sourcing projects across those portfolios and their subcategories, including employee benefits, payroll, human resources consulting, training, marketing, legal services, and financial services.
  • Build executive-level relationships to define aligned multi-year strategies and establish necessary agreements in collaboration with the Procurement executive leadership team.
  • Develop trusted relationships with business stakeholders, including budget owners, and propose robust category strategies aligned with business needs, business objectives, and the overall procurement function’s objectives.
  • Engage senior stakeholders across the organization and business lines to build consensus and deploy strategies that deliver sustainable value.
  • Manage the P+ category team and stakeholder relationships, with functional and managerial responsibility for P+ employees in the global category management organization.
  • Coach direct reports and/or targeted positions, including setting objectives, evaluating performance, supporting career development, and providing training.
  • Define objectives with stakeholders and secure their buy-in and commitment.
  • Assess the effects of changes in the relevant domains and changing requirements, including legislation and policies applicable to both category groups.
  • Coordinate resource allocation to support global, market, and market-unit (MU) initiatives and ensure successful deployment.
  • Lead and support strategic category management and procurement activities for Human Resources and Professional Services.
  • Support category strategy execution at global, market, and market-unit levels by defining implementation plans, performance indicators, and monitoring and reporting mechanisms.

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

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