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Accenture is one of the world's leading providers of sourcing and procurement services, we help our clients architect, build and operate high performance procurement organizations through our global and flexible solutions. At Accenture we partner with forward-thinking business leaders of the world's most dynamic companies, to transform procurement and drive sustainable changes to their cost structures.
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Accenture people build careers in four different areas of our business: Consulting, Technology, Business Process Services and internal Corporate Functions. Each area offers a unique career experience and a compelling mix of work and training opportunities, work environment and structure for career progression.
Business Process Services professionals work on projects across a range of business processes, business applications and information technology. They may provide technology services, such as application management, infrastructure management and systems integration, or they may deliver business process services, including finance and accounting, procurement and human resources. Depending on the role, Business Process Services professionals may be based at a client's office or in one of Accenture's 50 delivery centers around the world.
You Are:
Accenture is seeking a strong thought leader with deep category expertise for the role of Procurement Category Advisor. This position is specifically focused on sourcing and category knowledge in one of the following areas of spend:
- Financial Services
- Banking Services
The Work:
- Development of professional services category assessments with the goal of identifying sourcing opportunities within the main categories listed above; build/maintain/fresh/execute category plans for clients
- Understand client business needs to develop optimal sourcing solutions
- Develop and maintain category-specific knowledge assets and market intelligence that capture expertise / best practices
- Provide strategic sourcing oversight and category knowledge in support of the Sourcing Project Management function on projects within categories of expertise
- Design and develop relevant documents for projects or make recommendations for incumbent negotiations; lead sourcing events
- Monitor and provide guidance on procurement process for categories under management
- Manage multiple end-to-end project lifecycles
- Infuse market insights into the sourcing process on projects within categories of expertise
- Capture and report key findings from procurement activities that can be used to gain efficiencies and or knowledge for similar engagements
- Master project management skills and deepen category-specific knowledge to bring added value to sourcing projects and advance career development
- Incorporate best practice metrics for agreements to aid the Category Management process in SRM activities
- In collaboration with Sourcing Project Management and/or Procurement Practice Advisory, engage with customers' senior management team members to provide perspective on current market trends to inform client strategic decisions/sourcing initiatives in line with business goals and objectives
- Leverage category expertise to support new sales and drive significant client business value
- Establish, grow, and leverage network of suppliers, industry practitioners, and procurement professionals within categories of expertise
- Work collaboratively with suppliers and customer stakeholders to identify continuous cost and performance improvement strategies
- Collaborate with key internal stakeholders in business units, as well as external stakeholders
- Provide educational and learning opportunities to internal colleagues and external clients (ex. Webinar, Spend Trends publications) on industry trends, supplier landscape changes, and market intel within categories of expertise
- Coach and develop sourcing project managers in their professional development and pursuit of building category knowledge within area of expertise
- Work with Client Delivery and Procurement Category Advisors to ensure that services are delivered in accordance with contractual / service level obligations
- Ensure that services are provided within assigned budgets and timelines; take actions necessary to address any issues
- Provide input to Accenture best practices
- Adapt to the varied corporate cultures and organizational structures of our customers
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Qualifications
Here's What You Need:
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience
- Minimum of 7 years of procurement/consulting/or category-related industry or supplier experience
- Minimum of 3 years of strategic sourcing, category management, and/or professional industry experience related to EACH of the following sub-category areas
- Financial Services sub-category areas - (i.e.) tax, audit, accounting, banking, treasury, investments; AND Banking Operations sub-category areas - (i.e.) ATM procurements, vault services, armored car services, teller systems, cash management, card manufacturing, check printing, and/or wealth management
- Demonstrated expertise on historical and current market trends, view of supplier landscape, effective sourcing strategies, best practice pricing rate structure/commercial contractual terms, and existing positive relationships within industries related for the identified categories listed above
- Knowledge of additional categories such as Legal, Fleet, Consulting, Business Intelligence, Technology, and others
- Prior experience in the consulting industry
- Indirect or direct management of others
- Demonstration of managing a portfolio of projects across various clients at a prior employer
- Proficiency in spreadsheet software (e.g. Microsoft Excel) and presentation software (i.e. Microsoft PowerPoint
- Thorough understanding of the supplier landscape and interpretation of market trends within the identified categories listed above
- Ability to develop and frequently refresh category market intelligence and insight tools to support internal sourcing teams and educate external client stakeholders
- Ability to apply insights to customer's situation for meaningful impact
- Ability to influence and persuade senior level stakeholders
- Ability to adapt to the varied corporate cultures and organizational structures of our customers
- Strong sourcing knowledge to be able to translate category to sourcing strategy
- Well-developed, solution-oriented selling skills
- Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
- Ability to drive transformational change
- Solid multi-phase project management skills
- Strong ability to effectively manage in a matrix organizational structure working with multiple internal stakeholders
- Exceptional track record of building relationships with stakeholders or customers that have resulted in high customer satisfaction
- This position requires travel of approximately 50% to multiple customer locations
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