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Job Title/Req Number: Functional Solution Architect - Procurement Advisory (Manager or Assistant Manager ) - 107320

Base Location: UK wide. 20 offices nationally: www.kpmg88careers.co.uk/experienced-professional/#LeBlender.OfficeLocations

KPMG is one of the world's leading professional services organisations - a global network of member firms operating in 150+ countries offering Audit, Tax, and Advisory services to thousands of clients.

Why join KPMG as a Functional Solution Architect - Procurement Advisory?

In the Procurement Advisory domain we are recognised as industry leaders by clients and analysts including:

• ALM Vanguard leader in Sourcing and Procurement Consulting
• A Spend Matters 50/50 Provider to Know
• Leader in IDC MarketScape Worldwide Operations Improvement Consulting

At KPMG's highly successful Management Consultancy and Digital practices, we're working with our clients to help them understand how technology can drive business performance. As such, we're looking for outstanding technologists to join us, grow with us, and develop our Procurement Technology delivery capability, driving our strategy through large-scale Procurement transformation. Part of a developing team that will become our 'go to' for Procurement Technology, you will play a key role in the growing of our propositions to sell and deliver large programs. You'll have excellent listening skills, and a proven track record of helping clients reach their desired outcomes. On the technical side, you'll need a thorough understanding of Procurement technology solutions.

What will you be doing?

We are seeking a talented individual with experience of Procurement implementations and detailed working knowledge of Source to Pay software including one or more of the following; Coupa, Ivalua, Oracle, GEP, ZIP, ORO, ServiceNow and SAP Ariba. While predominantly focusing on ensuring successful delivery of our programmes you will play an important role in several key areas, including:

• Procurement Solution Architectures - driving business strategy that meets the relevant client business, technology and regulatory requirements
• Delivery Excellence - achievement of high-quality outcomes in the delivery of products or services to our clients.
• Practice Development - Ensuring that the team continues to deliver value to our clients through understanding leading practice developments, potential disruptors to the market in the shape of new technologies (including Agentic AI, intake and orchestration) and helping to ensure the team are sufficiently equipped to support our clients
• Sales Support - Providing your experience and knowledge into the sales cycle ensuring our clients are set up for success

What will you need to do it?

• Providing expert consultancy to assist clients in defining their overall technology strategy, designs and delivery programmes whilst effectively managing the commercial impacts
• Whole-stack reference models and architectures across application, data and technical domains, divisional/group specialists, as appropriate.
• Defining Baseline and Target states alongside the migration steps from one to the other
• Run workshops relevant to your work stream or project goals, provide advice on set up and options, document working with lead architect
• Supporting clients with their Infrastructure and provisioning strategies
• Provide functional expertise to clients for the elements owned during the implementation
• Proactively supporting the sales teams to provide expertise in bids to help clients to get more out of their existing Digital channels identifying the best of breed technologies and services based on client needs, constraints and strategies
• Presenting and communicating with confidence to stakeholders up to C-Suite level and supporting them in setting their strategic

Our Locations:

We are open to talk to Procurement talent across the country. With 20 sites across the UK, we can potentially facilitate office work, working from home, flexible hours, and part-time options. If you have a need for flexibility, please register and discuss this with our team.

Find out more:

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