Procurement Practice Manager

8129 ASOL - Bangalore 10 SEZ Company; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Strategy Sourcing Leader with extensive experience in external talent categories to drive supplier management, price governance, and cost reductions. The role involves stakeholder engagement, process design for category practices, and training across delivery teams.

The candidate will guide analytics, deliver savings reporting, and coordinate with functional teams to ensure timely execution within a complex delivery network.

Qualifications

• Educational Qualification: Any graduate
• Skills: Sourcing and Contracting Delivery Lead for the External Talent category.
• Work experience details: 15 to 19 years

Responsibilities

• Interacts with all levels of management including Senior Manager and Associate Directors.
• Lead a team and ensure smooth delivery of projects to stakeholders.
• Work collaboratively with suppliers and stakeholders to lead, communicate and support sourcing and category management procurement-related activities.
• Provide analytical support for necessary sourcing activities to maintain the competitiveness of category contracts.
• Perform total cost of ownership analyses for the evaluation of continuous cost improvement projects.
• Support spend & contract analysis and category planning activities- Assist in the development of customer reports for category specific savings results.
• Perform numerous complex problem-solving functions to ensure customer satisfaction with Accenture services.
• Develop good working relationships with customer stakeholders at both the corporate and business unit level

Skills

Strategic Sourcing

Education

Any Graduation

Job description

Skill required: Strategic Sourcing - Sourcing Designation: Procurement Practice Manager

Qualifications: Any Graduation Years of Experience: 13 to 18 years

About Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Technology and Operations services, and Accenture Song- all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 784,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com

What would you do?

• The Category Delivery Lead is responsible for supporting the delivery of External Talent Category management services to customer(s) including but not limited to stakeholder management, strategic sourcing, supplier performance management, price management, savings or compliance reporting, continuous improvement and ongoing cost reductions, supply market monitoring, and issue resolution.
• This employee will be responsible for drafting, updating and training for various unique External Talent Category processes, procedures and related deliverables.
• In addition, this employee will team with Accenture support functions (MMPR (document repository, Centralized Category Management, Buy Now External Talent Category metric development, maintenance and reporting; and special project management and reporting to ensure deliverables are completed on time and to the customers satisfaction.

What are we looking for?

• Educational Qualification: Any graduate
• Skills: Sourcing and Contracting Delivery Lead for the External Talent category.
• Work experience details: 15 to 19 years

Roles and Responsibilities

• Interacts with all levels of management including Senior Manager and Associate Directors. Lead a team and ensure smooth delivery of projects to stakeholders.
• Work collaboratively with suppliers and stakeholders to lead, communicate and support sourcing and category management procurement-related activities.
• Provide analytical support for necessary sourcing activities to maintain the competitiveness of category contracts.
• Perform total cost of ownership analyses for the evaluation of continuous cost improvement projects.
• Support supply market research for your relevant categories.
• Support spend & contract analysis and category planning activities- Assist in the development of customer reports for category specific savings results.
• Perform numerous complex problem-solving functions to ensure customer satisfaction with Accenture services.
• Develop good working relationships with customer stakeholders at both the corporate and business unit level

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