Sourcing & Procurement Management Marketing Consultant - NASPFY26

Accenture•Atlanta, GA

10h•Onsite

About The Position

Accenture Interactive is seeking a Sourcing and Procurement professional with Marketing experience to help clients develop strategies and operating models to advance procurement capabilities and drive bottom-line financial impact. This role involves using data skills to develop and implement strategies that improve the value and performance delivered by clients’ supply base, while establishing strategic procurement category plans and processes to sustain long-term value. The consultant 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. The role is immersed in a digitally compassionate and innovative-led environment where consultants help top clients shift to the New using leading-edge technologies on ground-breaking projects. This includes identifying opportunities to reduce clients’ marketing costs and environmental impacts, or proposing innovative solutions that curb the effect of soaring prices and longer lead times. The Sourcing & Procurement team delivers tangible business results for clients while enhancing employee experience, customer satisfaction, and community impact.

Requirements

Minimum of 3 years of experience executing Strategic Sourcing projects/programs, including exposure to Marketing negotiations
Minimum 1 year experience with Microsoft Office (Excel & PowerPoint) products, including the ability to develop and interpret complex analytical models and ad-hoc reports
Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If associate degree, must have a minimum of 6 years’ work experience)
Marketing category and procurement expertise in one or more of these subcategories: Creative Agencies, Media Buying & Planning, PR Agencies, Experiential Agencies, Market Research, MarTech, Digital/Social Marketing, Commercial Print, and Promotional Items

Nice To Haves

Management consulting experience with a well-regarded firm (strongly preferred)
Management consulting experience in a client-facing role
Prior experience in driving insights using visualization tools (i.e., Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx) and analytics tools (i.e., Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics)
Earned an MBA or equivalent graduate degree
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
Comfortable in an entrepreneurial, performance-driven environment and a capacity for innovation and process improvement

Responsibilities

Solving challenging problems and applying creativity and innovation
Creating robust sourcing strategies and recommendations
Driving category insights, analysis and benchmarking
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
Support Accenture’s Marketing Center of Excellence by creating deliverable content (POV slides, case studies, whitepapers, etc.) to capture marketing category knowledge and ultimately support internal knowledge share and business development