Procurement Sourcing Specialist - Management Consultant - Supply Chain & Ops at Accenture

WE ARE:

Supply Chain & Operations and we move fast, think fast, and work fast. Our Fortune 500 clients need big-picture change, so we come at their challenges from all sides with functional insights, data power, digital leadership, and extensive industry know-how. It’s our job to show clients how to take major leaps forward in planning, procurement, manufacturing, and fulfillment while becoming more sustainable and resilient. How do we do it? We call out the most important metrics. We cut costs, optimize capital, improve response times and consider ESG values. We connect suppliers and customers across the extended supply chain. And we create strategies and operating models that really work.

YOU ARE:

A Supply Chain and Operations professional who helps clients develop strategies and operating models that integrate planning, procurement, product design, manufacturing, and/or fulfilment functions within an organization, as well as connect suppliers and customers across the extended supply chains. You use your data skills to develop and implement strategies that improve the entire supply chain process by applying cost efficiency, increasing business effectiveness, and creating synergies and collaboration across companies. You’ve also got the communication skills to make sure that everyone understands your ideas and how to get them working as quickly as possible. Your experience means that people look to you for guidance and ideas. And you know how to make sure teams get their work done on time, every time.

PURPOSE OF JOB:

• Have commercial acumen and a drive to bring synergies, efficiency and effectiveness to the management of our clients spend in specific categories.
• You will be comfortable leading conversations with C-suite e.g., CEO, CFO and CPO and other senior executives.
• You could be required to support additional sourcing work, including management of a team delivering sourcing work.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Category Ownership

• Develop strategy and value proposition for your relevant categories of spend within the Procurement framework with data at the heart of everything you do
• Design and implement value led initiatives across multiple sub-categories and the Accenture Operations Procurement customer base with an outcome led approach
• Drive and develop category-specific insights and analytic products
• Strive to become a thought leader in your subcategories by proactive engagement in the market
• Identify value/productivity improvement opportunities in subcategories across multiple clients

Strategic Sourcing

• Lead strategic sourcing projects, including all key steps such as stakeholder engagement, strategy development, supplier negotiation, award recommendations, business case presentations, supplier contract execution, and supplier relationship management
• Drive and support deep market intelligence into the initiatives that you lead driving both efficiency and effectiveness.
• Work with global teams to execute the projects in the most efficient manner
• Develop senior level stakeholder relationships on client accounts and build and develop key client stakeholder relationships
• Negotiate commercials with supplier and incorporate best practice metrics (May be responsible for contracting negotiated agreement)

Overall

• Engage with Clients senior management team members to drive and communicate progress on your initiatives.
• Develop and share recommendations with clients to Identify and recommend process improvement based on operational insights, industry and/or domain knowledge and/or analytics
• Provide insights to clients that reduce costs or generate revenue
• Deliver domain skills to support adoption of additional processes of clients
• Work within and outside documented processes and apply appropriate judgment-based services that deliver client value to the supply chain/ procurement processes
• Provide functional expertise for key processes, products and solutions
• Plan and forecast material requirements

Qualifications

Education, Competencies and experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience working on Supply Chain initiatives
• A Bachelor’s Degree
• Business Insight – Expert
• Customer Interaction Handling – Expert
• Global Strategic Sourcing - Expert
• Operational Excellence - Expert
• Procurement Strategy and Planning - Advanced
• S&C Negotiations and Contract Management – Advanced
• Supplier Analysis & Selection - Expert
• Supplier Relationship Management - Advanced

Bonus points if:

• You have a deep specialization in one or more of the following: procurement or 3rd party cost takeout initiatives; forecasting, supply chain planning, and inventory optimization; manufacturing production experience in either continuous or discrete manufacturing environments, Oil and Gas industry experience
• You have the proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• You excel in building and developing relationships, overseeing complex programs, and demonstrating leadership
• You’ve earned an MBA or equivalent graduate degree
• You have a functional-level understanding of technology solutions
• Lean or Six Sigma qualifications
• You can use the latest data analytics tools to spot opportunities for improvement
• Prior experience in driving insights using visualization tools (i.e., Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx) and analytics tools (i.e., Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics)