Procurement Practice Manager

Accenture; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Procurement Practice Manager in Bengaluru to lead External Talent category delivery, driving strategic sourcing, contracting, and stakeholder collaboration to achieve cost savings and performance goals.

The role requires 13–18 years of experience in procurement, with a strong background in category management, supplier performance, and spend analysis within a global enterprise context.

Qualifications

• Educational qualification: Any graduation.
• Skills: Sourcing and Contracting Delivery Lead for the External Talent category.
• Work experience: 13 to 18 years.

Responsibilities

• Interacts with management levels and leads a team to ensure project delivery to stakeholders.
• Collaborates with suppliers and stakeholders to lead sourcing and category management activities.
• Provides analytical support for sourcing activities to maintain contract competitiveness.
• Performs total cost of ownership analyses for continuous cost improvements.
• Supports spend and contract analysis and category planning.
• Develops customer reports for category-specific savings results.
• Builds strong working relationships with customer stakeholders at corporate and BU levels.

Education

Any Graduation

Job description

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 levelAny Graduation

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

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