Performance Improvement Supply Chain Optimization Senior Consultant

Crowe•Nashville, TN

3d•$95,000 - $147,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Crowe’s Performance Improvement practice helps clients improve profitability by solving supply chain, procurement, supplier management, and operational challenges; developing executable improvement plans; quantifying the financial value of improvements; and partnering with clients to capture value. This Senior Consultant role primarily supports strategic sourcing engagements, including global supply strategies, category strategies, competitive sourcing initiatives, and procurement transformations. Consultants take ownership of a client challenge at a time and work mostly independently to drive operational and financial results. The role is client-facing and requires working onsite with clients and traveling 95% of the time, Sunday through Thursday, more than 45 weeks per year. The primary focus is strategic sourcing. The role supports supply chain assessments, analyzes spend and performance, evaluates sourcing and procurement maturity, develops category strategies, facilitates stakeholder workshops, and presents findings and recommendations to executive leaders. After assessments, the Senior Consultant leads delivery workstreams, including category strategy execution through negotiations and award recommendations, implementation of supplier agreements, and improvements to procurement structures, policies, processes, and management practices. Consultants may also support logistics and operational engagements involving broader transformations, complex workstreams, operational and financial 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 influence stakeholders across client engagements.
Self-starter with demonstrated ability to drive results independently.
Ability and interest in learning new skills quickly and often.
Ability to conduct analytics that generate insights, with proficiency in 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 write clearly and concisely.
Ability to interact with and present to all levels of an organization, including executive leaders, weekly.
Uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship, and act ethically and with integrity.
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 through executive and front-line leader interviews and job observations.
Develop spend cubes and performance analytics using Power BI to shape category events and track impact.
Lead organizational sourcing and procurement maturity assessments to identify gaps and opportunities and develop improvement plans.
Build detailed category sourcing strategies with clients to improve commercial terms and supplier alignment.
Independently facilitate ideation workshops, align stakeholders, and refine strategies based on feedback.
Prepare 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.
Collaborate with internal teams and clients to assess, design, and implement broader operational and supply chain transformation projects.
Lead complex consulting value workstreams involving operational, financial, and process analysis, strategy development, process reengineering, and modeling.