Associate Manager - Procurement and Agile Sourcing

Procurement Practice Associate Manager

Skill required: Agile Sourcing - Sourcing
Designation: Procurement Practice Associate Manager
Qualifications:Any Graduation
Years of Experience:10 to 14 years
About Accenture
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What would you do? Go beyond processing purchase orders at lower costs to help clients reap savings and value from the billions they spend on the goods and services that run their day-to-day business operations. Agile Sourcing involves quickly and efficiently finding and acquiring resources or services needed for a project. This includes identifying suppliers, negotiating contracts, and ensuring timely delivery. The goal is to support agile project management by being responsive and adaptable. Responsibilities include maintaining supplier relationships and optimizing procurement processes. This role is essential for keeping projects on track and within budget. Understand when & how to use a request for proposal (price and non-price factors) and RFQ (price only) and how to develop, execute and analyze the results. Collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative information to assess, screen and select suppliers.
What are we looking for? • Identify cost/productivity improvement opportunities in spending across all relevant mining categories. • Lead and execute end to end sourcing projects, including all key steps such as strategy development, category planning, supplier negotiation, techno—commercial evaluation, award recommendations, business case presentations and supplier contract execution, leveraging an Agile approach to drive efficiency in execution. • Provide industry and supplier research, market intelligence and financial analysis to client. • Support development of market insights from cross-client sourcing activity and collaborate with advisors to develop content that enables knowledge sharing across the organization. • Pursue and develop stakeholder relationships (internal and external). • Support Category Strategy development for specified clients to identify project opportunities that achieve client goals and mature their procurement function. • Able to lead and Mentor sourcing team on industry best practices with a special emphasis on market trends and insights, commercial structure assessment, negotiation strategies and contracting. • Coordinating with internal legal team (Contract Services team) as per Contract Services directory. • Passion for continuous self-learning within relevant category. • Proven analytical skills in terms of numeric (e.g. spreadsheets) and text based (e.g. reading terms and conditions) analysis, converting information into tangible recommendations to clients. • Tool’s knowledge e.g., SAP-SD/MM modules, Ariba, Coupa, Jaggaer. • End to end knowledge and experience in RFX, e-Auction, reverse e-auction sourcing process and strategy. • Bachelor’s degree or minimum 10 years of relevant experience in consulting, sourcing/procurement/supply chain management function. • Minimum of 4+ years of experience in managing global Customers, and suppliers • Minimum of 6+ years of strategic sourcing, category management, and/or professional industry experience
Roles and Responsibilities: •In this role you are required to do analysis and solving of moderately complex problems • Typically creates new solutions, leveraging and, where needed, adapting existing methods and procedures • The person requires understanding of the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to team goals • Primary upward interaction is with direct supervisor or team leads • Generally interacts with peers and/or management levels at a client and/or within Accenture • The person should require minimal guidance when determining methods and procedures on new assignments • Decisions often impact the team in which they reside and occasionally impact other teams • Individual would manage medium-small sized teams and/or work efforts (if in an individual contributor role) at a client or within Accenture • Please note that this role may require you to work in rotational shifts