Sourcing and Procurement Business Solutions Manager

S&C - GN - SC&E - S&P – Business Solutions - Manager

Job Title: GN - SC&O - S&P – Business Solutions –Manager

Management Level: 7 - Manager

Location: Bangalore/Mumbai/Hyderabad, Pune, Gurgaon

Must have skills:  Ivalua

Good to have Skills: Sourcing and Procurement, Supply Chain Management

Experience: 8+ years

Educational Qualification: Master’s Degree

Job Summary:

The Manager in the Sourcing and Procurement team within the Capability Network (CN) in Accenture would be a part of globally diverse consulting team entrusted with the task of delivering sourcing and procurement engagements for clients across industries. Together, let’s innovate, build competitive advantage, improve business, and societal outcomes, in an ever-changing, ever-challenging world. Help us make supply chains work better, faster, and be more resilient,

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Deliver Sourcing and Procurement engagements in the areas of strategic cost reduction, sourcing optimization, procurement transformation, intelligent procurement using tools such as Coupa, IVALUA, Zycus and Jaggaer, across industries and geographies. Key activities including but not limited to -
  • Support implementation of procurement solutions including requirements gathering, technical design definition, define test scenarios & scripts to ensure that the configured solution meets clients’ requirements and be comfortable working with application developers & managing multiple stakeholders
  • Understand core Source to Pay functionalities for assessment, design and solutioning
  • Get involved in supply chain Sourcing & Procurement business process and requirement discussions with the client
  • Clearly understand client’s requirements and design apt solutions by considering the inbuilt as well as configurable capabilities within either of these eProcurement platforms - Ivalua, Coupa, Zycus, Jaggaer 
  • Provide estimates to project managers of complex work and resource requirements
  • Design test scripts for configuration testing, create user manual and train users on the capability
  • Identify apt S2P KPIs/metrics to develop baseline and track value post implementations
  • Provide final solution deliverables to the customer as per design
  • Participate in customer liaison activities to ensure success of the project
    
• Support in business development activities such as responding to proposal requests, conducting roadshows/demos, staffing management, people engagement, asset development and so on.