Sourcing & Procurement Management Consultant - NASPFY26
About The Position
Accenture helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. We bring together the talent of our approximately 799,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale. Through our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology. We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $70 billion in FY25 revenue. Visit us at accenture.com. Sourcing & Procurement, and we move fast, think fast, and work fast. Our clients need big-picture change, so we come at their challenges from all sides with functional insights, data power, digital leadership, and extensive industry know-how. It’s our job to show clients how to take major leaps forward in cost-out, strategic category management, and procurement operations. This is an extraordinary chance to begin a rewarding career at Accenture in a digitally compassionate and innovation-led environment, here is where you can help top clients shift to the new using leading-edge technologies on the most ground-breaking projects imaginable. Whether identifying opportunities to reduce clients’ costs and environmental impacts or proposing innovative solutions that curb the effect of soaring prices and longer lead times, Accenture’s Sourcing & Procurement team delivers tangible business results for our clients – while also enhancing the employee experience, customer satisfaction, and community impact. Consultants provide the foundation for all these client-facing activities. With direction from the firm’s experienced leadership, you will play a critical role in building and providing analyses and recommendations that will be the basis for key client decision making relative to their sourcing and procurement strategies.
Requirements
- Minimum of 2.5 years of experience executing Strategic Sourcing projects/programs
- Minimum 2.5 years of experience developing and executing cost optimization strategies
- Strong acumen surrounding problem solving and data analytics tools (e.g. Excel, Alteryx, SQL, R, Power BI); experience developing complex models with advanced functions; demonstrated ability to structure data, check and “QA” models, and build executive-ready dashboards and summaries
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If associate degree, must have a minimum of 6 years’ work experience)
- Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States.
Nice To Haves
- Management consulting experience with a well-regarded firm (strongly preferred)
- Comfortable in an entrepreneurial, performance-driven environment and a capacity for innovation and process improvement
- Demonstrated abilities in problem solving and independent decision-making capabilities.
- Ability to effectively take on multiple projects, tasks, and initiatives simultaneously.
- Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail.
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
- Self-starter mindset and bias towards proactively taking initiative to learn, grow, and advance projects
Responsibilities
- Solving challenging problems and applying creativity and innovation
- Creating robust sourcing strategies and cost-out recommendations
- Driving category insights, analysis and benchmarking
- Building and reviewing robust analytics models via Excel, Alteryx, SQL
- Synthesizing disparate data sources into insights and clear deliverables
- Working with clients to identify and interpret key project requirements
- Nurturing relationships with client stakeholders
- Facilitating development of project plans and overall project management to ensure effective delivery of client project work and client deliverables
- Developing presentations and key deliverables to support decision making
- Communicating findings and recommendations to internal teams and client stakeholders
- Achieving excellence and dependability through the execution of projects and initiatives
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage
- a 401(k) plan
- bonus opportunities
- paid holidays
- paid time off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
