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Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Spend Optimization Analyst - Sourcing & Procurement

Operations & Supply Chain ConsultingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBuenos Aires, Argentina

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of management consulting and/or relevant professional experience; procurement and strategic sourcing experience is preferred.
  • A bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or a related field.
  • Strong experience with Microsoft Office products, especially Excel and PowerPoint, including developing and interpreting complex analytical models and ad hoc reports.
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to present comfortably to senior executives.

Responsibilities

  • Synthesize disparate data sources into insights and clear deliverables.
  • Create and present robust sourcing strategies and recommendations to client executives.
  • Coordinate communications with internal and external project teams.
  • Develop and nurture relationships with client stakeholders.
  • Build consensus among client stakeholders.
  • Support all aspects of client-facing projects under the direction of the management team.
  • Use consulting, problem-solving, project management, and data analysis skills to assist client decision-making.
  • Work on strategic sourcing within companies and across private equity portfolios.
  • Work on procurement process reengineering.
  • Conduct spend analysis and savings opportunity diagnostics.
  • Conduct pre-purchase due diligence.
  • Perform make-versus-buy decision analysis.
  • Conduct benchmarking and implement best practices.

Desired Qualifications

  • Procurement and strategic sourcing experience.
  • Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
  • Client-facing skills and proficiency in building and nurturing client relationships.
  • Ability to plan and manage multiple projects, tasks, and initiatives simultaneously.
  • Comfort working in an entrepreneurial, performance-driven environment, with capacity for innovation and process improvement.
  • An MBA or equivalent graduate degree.
  • Prior experience driving insights using visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or Alteryx and analytics tools such as Adobe Analytics or Google Analytics.

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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