Sourcing & Procurement Management Consultant

About the Role

Accenture helps leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing AI. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice, leading in safe AI adoption, and being the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work. We leverage our talent, proprietary assets, platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale.

Our Sourcing & Procurement team moves fast, thinks fast, and works fast. We provide clients with functional insights, data power, digital leadership, and industry know-how to achieve big-picture change, cost-out, strategic category management, and procurement operations.

As a Sourcing and Procurement professional, you will help clients develop strategies and operating models to advance procurement capabilities and drive bottom-line financial impact. You will use data skills to develop and implement strategies that improve the value and performance of clients’ supply base, while establishing strategic procurement category plans and processes for long-term value. Strong communication skills are essential to ensure ideas are understood and implemented quickly. Your experience will position you as a source of guidance and ideas, and you will ensure teams deliver work on time.

Consultants provide the foundation for client-facing activities. With direction from leadership, you will play a critical role in building and providing analyses and recommendations that form the basis for key client decision-making relative to their sourcing and procurement strategies.

Key Responsibilities

• Solving challenging problems with creativity and innovation
• Creating robust sourcing strategies and cost-out recommendations
• Driving category insights, analysis, and benchmarking
• Building and reviewing robust analytics models via Excel, Alteryx, SQL
• Synthesizing disparate data sources into insights and clear deliverables
• Working with clients to identify and interpret key project requirements
• Nurturing relationships with client stakeholders
• Facilitating development of project plans and overall project management to ensure effective delivery of client project work and client deliverables
• Developing presentations and key deliverables to support decision making
• Communicating findings and recommendations to internal teams and client stakeholders
• Achieving excellence and dependability through the execution of projects and initiatives

Travel Requirements: 10-50%

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Minimum of 2.5 years of experience executing Strategic Sourcing projects/programs
• Minimum of 2.5 years of experience developing and executing cost optimization strategies
• Strong acumen surrounding problem-solving and data analytics tools (e.g., Excel, Alteryx, SQL, R, Power BI)
• Experience developing complex models with advanced functions
• Demonstrated ability to structure data, check and “QA” models, and build executive-ready dashboards and summaries

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. If associate degree, must have a minimum of 6 years’ work experience.

Bonus Points

• Management consulting experience with a well-regarded firm (strongly preferred)
• Comfort in an entrepreneurial, performance-driven environment with a capacity for innovation and process improvement
• Demonstrated abilities in problem-solving and independent decision-making capabilities
• Ability to effectively take on multiple projects, tasks, and initiatives simultaneously
• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
• Self-starter mindset and bias towards proactively taking initiative to learn, grow, and advance projects