Performance Improvement Supply Chain Optimization Senior Consultant

Crowe • Dallas, TX

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Crowe’s Performance Improvement practice helps clients improve profitability by addressing supply chain, procurement and sourcing, supplier management and development, and operational challenges. The team develops executable improvement plans, aligns stakeholders, quantifies the financial value of improvements, and partners with clients to capture that value. The Senior Consultant leads aspects of strategic sourcing engagements, including developing global supply and category strategies, competitive sourcing initiatives, and procurement transformations, as well as logistics and operational excellence work. The role owns a single client challenge at a time, working mostly independently to drive operational and financial results. Client work is primarily onsite and requires travel 95% of the time, Sunday through Thursday, for more than 45 weeks per year, with no flexibility on this requirement.

The primary focus is strategic sourcing. Responsibilities span assessments, analytics, category strategy development, stakeholder facilitation, executive reporting, and leading delivery workstreams through negotiations, award recommendations, and implementation. Consultants may also work on logistics or broader operational and supply chain transformation engagements across diverse industries. Crowe expects employees to uphold its values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship and to act ethically and with integrity.

Requirements

• 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.
• Ability to travel 95% of the time, Sunday through Thursday, for more than 45 weeks per year; this requirement has no flexibility.
• Personable and able to build rapport and influence stakeholders throughout client engagements.
• 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 relying only on pivot charts.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint, and ability to ramp up on Power BI quickly.
• 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, on a weekly basis.
• Must verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States; Crowe is not sponsoring work authorization at this time.
• Must act ethically and with integrity and uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship.

Responsibilities

• Support supply chain assessments by conducting executive and frontline leader interviews and job observations.
• Develop spend cubes and performance analytics to shape category events and track impact, leveraging Power BI.
• 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 to align stakeholders and refine strategies based on feedback.
• Prepare assessment reports and present insights and strategies to executive leaders.
• Lead delivery workstreams after assessments, including execution of three to four category strategies through final negotiations and award recommendations.
• Lead implementation of resulting supplier agreements.
• Support clients in optimizing sourcing and procurement organizational structures, policies, processes, and management practices.
• Collaborate with extended 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.
• Work mostly independently and focus on one client challenge at a time to drive operational and financial results.

Benefits

• Comprehensive total rewards package.
• Inclusive culture that values diversity.
• Consistent meetings with a Career Coach to guide career goals and aspirations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior