Performance Improvement Supply Chain Optimization Senior Consultant

Crowe•Dallas, TX

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Crowe’s Performance Improvement practice helps clients significantly improve their profitability by solving supply chain, procurement/sourcing, supplier management/development, and operational challenges. They develop executable improvement plans, align stakeholders, quantify financial value, and partner with clients to drive value capture. This role involves leading aspects of strategic sourcing engagements, including shaping global supply strategies, building category strategies, leading competitive sourcing initiatives, and supporting procurement transformations, logistics, and operational excellence engagements. The delivery model requires Senior Consultants to assume ownership for solving tough sourcing, logistics, or operational challenges, working on one client challenge at a time, mostly independently. The role requires working on-site with clients, with 95% travel.

Requirements

Travel 95% of the time – Sunday through Thursday, more than 45 weeks a year
Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management or a relevant field required, or more than ten (10) years of professional field experience
More than three (3) years of strategic sourcing experience – creating and executing category strategies independently, in industry or as a consultant
Personable and able to pass the airplane test – ability to lead and influence stakeholders
Self-starter with the demonstrated ability to drive results independently
Ability and interest in learning new skills quickly and often
Ability to conduct analytics that generate insights versus pivot charts (including proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint, and the ability to ramp up on Power BI quickly)
Ability to connect issues and opportunities back to clients’ financials
Ability to say more with fewer words in your professional writing
Ability to interact and present to all levels of the organization, including executive leaders weekly
Uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship
Act ethically and with integrity at all times
Verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire
Must be able to travel 95% of the time, more than 45 weeks a year (no flexibility on this)

Nice To Haves

Ability to ramp up on Power BI quickly

Responsibilities

Supporting supply chain assessments: Conducting executive and front-line leader interviews and completing job observations
Developing a spend cube and performance analytics to shape category events and enable impact tracking (leveraging Power BI)
Leading organizational sourcing and procurement maturity assessments to understand gaps and opportunities and develop improvement plans
Building out detailed category sourcing strategies with clients to shape plans to improve commercial terms and improve alignment with suppliers
Facilitating ideation workshops independently to gain alignment with stakeholders and refine strategies grounded in feedback
Building assessment reports and confidently presenting insights and strategies to executive leaders
Leading execution of three (3) to four (4) category strategies through final negotiations and award recommendations
Leading implementation of resulting supplier agreements
Supporting client optimization of sourcing and procurement organizational structures, policies, processes, and management practices
Collaborating with our extended team and client(s) to assess, design, and implement broader operational and supply chain transformation projects for diverse industries
Leading execution of complex consulting value workstreams, providing operational, financial, and process analysis, strategy development, process reengineering, and modeling