S&C - GN - SC&E - S&P – Procurement Transformation - Senior Manager

Accenture Infrastructure and Capital Projects, LLC; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

The Senior Manager/Manager role within Accenture’s Sourcing and Procurement team in the CN would lead globally diverse engagements across industries, focusing on procurement transformation, cost reduction, and supplier optimization. It emphasizes advisory leadership, analytics, and driving rapid value for clients.

Successful candidates will coach large teams, shape strategy, and partner with C-suite executives to deliver sustainable improvements in supply chains, with a focus on competitive

Qualifications

• MBA/Master’s degree with extensive procurement transformation experience.
• 8+ years for Manager or 13+ years for Senior Manager in consulting or a Sourcing function.
• Proven ability to lead end-to-end Source-to-Pay transformations and stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Lead procurement transformation engagements including cost reduction and procurement optimization.
• Co-create with clients to articulate transformation and drive innovation.
• Establish trusted adviser relationships with client leadership and drive deal origination.
• Coach teams on as-is assessments, business cases, roadmaps and implementation of recommendations.
• Drive sales, revenue and profitability for the practice.

Skills

Cost take out

Cost reduction

Sourcing

Procurement

Supply chain management

Education

Master’s Degree

Tools

Ariba

Coupa

IVALUEA

Zycus

Jaggaer

Job description

Job Title: GN - SC&O - S&P – Procurement Transformation–Manager/Senior Manager

Management Level: 7/6 -Senior Manager | Manager

Location: Bangalore/Mumbai/Hyderabad, Pune, Gurgaon

Must have skills: Cost take out, Cost reduction

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

Experience: 8+ years for Manager | 13+ years for Senior Manager

Educational Qualification: Master’s Degree

Job Summary:

The Senior Manager/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:

• Understand the client’s business, priorities and leadership agenda.
• Co-create with the client, articulate transformation and drive innovation agenda for the client.
• Establish self as a trusted advisor with the client C-suite through an in-depth understanding of the client as well as industry.
• Build networks at Accenture to be able to bring the best of Accenture to the client.
• Lead and deliver sourcing and procurement transformation projects such as strategic cost reduction, sourcing optimization, procurement transformation, responsible and resilient procurement, mergers & acquisitions, working with mid to large sized teams.
• Coach team members on activities such as as-is process and maturity assessment, technology evaluation, opportunity identification, business case and roadmap creation and implementation of recommendations.
• Drive sales, revenue and profitability for the practice.
• Help originate deals based on defined commercial pathways; drive innovative deal construct and solutioning to grow business
• Align the right teams or capabilities to enable successful transformation and innovation agenda.
• Lead and support development of cutting-edge points of view and articles that drive Accenture equity in the market.

Professional and Technical Skills

• Ability to define and execute end-to-end Source to Pay processes including category management & procurement analytics, supplier management, sourcing, contracts, order/goods, receipt/invoice management
• Ability to develop business case for procurement transformation initiatives such as implementation of source-to-pay solutions (e.g., Coupa, Ivalua, Zycus, Jaggaer and so on)
• Excellent data analytics and data interpretation and presentation skills
• Ability to solve complex business problems and deliver client delight
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills
• Cross-cultural competence with an ability to thrive in a dynamic environment

Additional Information:

• MBA from Tier-1 B Schools and BE/BTech from Tier-1 engineering institutes
• Minimum 8+ years for Manager in a top-tier consulting firm or in a Sourcing and Procurement Function in Consumer Goods, Pharmaceuticals, Hi-Tech, E-Commerce, Automotive, Oil & Gas industry
• Demonstrated experience in consulting or a leading mid-large sized team on large scale sourcing and procurement projects spanning across one or more of the following: strategic cost reduction, sourcing optimization, procurement transformation procurement transformation including implementation of procurement solutions, intelligent procurement, responsible and resilient procurement, mergers & acquisitions
• Knowledge of Sourcing and Procurement technologies such as Ariba, Coupa, IVALUA, Zycus, Jaggaer and so on

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