Performance Improvement Supply Chain Optimization Senior Consultant
About The Position
Crowe’s Performance Improvement practice works with clients to improve profitability by addressing supply chain, procurement and sourcing, supplier management and development, and operational challenges. The practice develops executable improvement plans, aligns stakeholders, quantifies financial value, and partners with clients to capture results. The Senior Consultant leads aspects of strategic sourcing engagements, including shaping global supply strategies, developing category strategies, leading competitive sourcing initiatives, and supporting procurement transformations, logistics, and operational excellence. Consultants take ownership of a client challenge at a time, working mostly independently to deliver operational and financial results. The delivery model involves working onsite with clients and requires travel 95% of the time. The role primarily supports strategic sourcing assessments and delivery workstreams. Responsibilities include interviewing executive and front-line leaders, conducting job observations, developing spend and performance analytics, assessing sourcing and procurement maturity, building category strategies, facilitating stakeholder workshops, and presenting findings to executive leaders. Following assessments, the consultant leads the execution of category strategies through negotiations and award recommendations, supports supplier-agreement implementation, and helps optimize sourcing and procurement structures, policies, processes, and management practices. The consultant may also work on logistics or broader operational transformation engagements, including analysis, strategy development, process reengineering, and modeling.
Requirements
- Ability to travel 95% of the time, Sunday through Thursday, more than 45 weeks per year; the posting states there is no flexibility on this requirement.
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management or a relevant field, or more than 10 years of professional field experience.
- More than three years of strategic sourcing experience creating and independently executing category strategies, in industry or as a consultant.
- Personable and able to lead and influence stakeholders.
- Self-starter with a demonstrated ability to drive results independently.
- Ability and interest in learning new skills quickly and often.
- Ability to conduct analytics that generate insights, rather than only pivot charts.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint, and ability to ramp up quickly on Power BI.
- Ability to connect issues and opportunities to clients’ financials.
- Ability to communicate concisely in professional writing.
- Ability to interact with and present to all organizational levels, including executive leaders, weekly.
- Must verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States; Crowe is not sponsoring work authorization at this time.
Responsibilities
- Support supply chain assessments by conducting executive and front-line leader interviews and completing job observations.
- Develop spend cubes and performance analytics to shape category events and enable impact tracking, leveraging Power BI.
- Lead organizational sourcing and procurement maturity assessments, identify gaps and opportunities, and develop improvement plans.
- Develop detailed category sourcing strategies with clients to improve commercial terms and supplier alignment.
- Independently facilitate ideation workshops to align stakeholders and refine strategies based on feedback.
- Build assessment reports and present insights and strategies to executive leaders.
- Lead execution of three to four category strategies through final negotiations and award recommendations.
- Lead implementation of resulting supplier agreements.
- Support optimization of clients’ sourcing and procurement organizational structures, policies, processes, and management practices.
- When assigned to logistics or operational engagements, collaborate with extended teams and clients to assess, design, and implement broader operational and supply chain transformation projects.
- Lead complex consulting value workstreams, including operational, financial, and process analysis; strategy development; process reengineering; and modeling.
Benefits
- Comprehensive total rewards package.
- Consistent meetings with a Career Coach to guide career goals and aspirations.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
