Sourcing and Procurement Business Process Services Consultant

Job description

Sourcing and Procurement Business Process Services Consultant
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions—underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network—Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With more than 411,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com
Why Accenture Business Process Services (BPS)?
When a client wants to start delivering business outcomes, the first thing they look at is the business process.
Our deep expertise in business processes starts with our people, whose learning and extensive industry, technical and functional experience give us the know-how to help drive measurable business outcomes for our clients. By applying that know-how and smartly integrating intelligent technologies into our service delivery, we can transform entire processes, creating new business opportunities and dramatically enhanced services, as well as giving our clients fast access to technology and process advances without enduring expensive and disruptive upgrades.
You’ll be part of a team that offers an unparalleled depth and breadth of consulting, implementation and operations experience. You’ll help our clients manage change during transition and beyond, drive operational improvements, push business innovations, and turn insights into actions and actions into measurable business outcomes, all at scale.
Accenture’s Services workforce is a dedicated team of people who work on outsourcing engagements. These are long-term partnerships with clients for whom we manage and provide increasingly specialized business operations, such as finance and accounting, IT, applications development and maintenance, help desk services, and HR. We not only maintain key business functions for clients, we constantly seek to improve them to help our clients’ move ahead of the competition.
The Services workforce is made up of four groups: Client Operations, Project Based, Delivery Centers and BPO Businesses. Most of our people in Services are based long-term at a client location, an Accenture Delivery Center or, in some cases, an Accenture office.
Job Description

We partner with clients to design Intelligent Sourcing and Procurement solutions that address today’s objectives and enable flexibility to accommodate future changes
Accenture helps clients to reinvent procurement from source-to-settle–embedding robotics process automation, market intelligence and analytics, and exceptional business process expertise into the process and augmenting existing resources–so our clients can move first in the market and accelerate results.
We are reimagining our BPS offerings using data, analytics, and artificial intelligence, and driving intelligent operations for superior business outcomes
We are now looking for a Sourcing and Procurement Business Process Services Consultant with deep knowledge of Sourcing and Procurement business processes both from transactional and strategic category management side; solid understanding of broader operations agenda, i.e.: Production Planning, Integrated planning and Distribution, Inventory management, etc.

Key responsibilities will include:
· Operate in both roles:
· As an external management consulting professional and delivering business processes optimization activities within Procurement transformation programs:
· Defining and implementing new Procurement Organizational and operating Models, Procurement roles
· Enabling key business processes in Sourcing Solutions (Strategic Planning, Source to Contract, Request to Pay, Supplier, Supplier Relationship Management, Saving Tracking)
· Procurement Scorecards & KPIs
· Defining & managing Change Management and Roll Out activities (communication, training, coaching)

· Working on a client side as an acting sourcing and procurement manager, executing routine daily operations but focusing on optimization of client operations, developing and executing transformational activities on a long term bases – service model

Desired profile

Qualifications :

Qualifications
·  Knowledge of key business processes: Strategic Planning, Spend Analysis, RFP Management, Source to Contract, Request to Pay, Supplier Relationship Management, Saving Tracking
·  3-6 years of experience in Sourcing & Procurement Consulting Services or Procurement Departments in leading Companies in its Sector (Consumer Goods, Utilities, Resources, Automotive, Pharma)
·  Specific knowledge of Direct or Indirect categories
·  Experience of major Sourcing & Procurement solutions: Ariba, Emptoris, Ivalua, Bravo Solution, SAP Sourcing
·  Ability to meet travel requirements and work on projects abroad
·  Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
·  Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment
·  Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability status, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.