Procurement Practice Category Specialist, Technology

Accenture; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global professional services company as a Procurement Category Specialist in Technology. In this exciting role, you will collaborate with clients to develop innovative sourcing strategies across various technology spend areas, including Cloud, Software, and Telecom. You will lead end-to-end sourcing projects, leveraging your negotiation skills and market intelligence to drive significant value and savings for clients. This position offers the opportunity to engage with senior stakeholders, mentor teams on best practices, and contribute to the success of procurement functions. If you are passionate about technology and procurement, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in developing sourcing strategies for technology spend.
• Strong negotiation skills and ability to manage senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end sourcing projects and develop category strategies.
• Collaborate with clients to identify value and savings opportunities.

Skills

Sourcing Strategies

Negotiation Skills

Market Intelligence

Stakeholder Management

Agile Methodology

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree (preferred)

Tools

Financial Analysis Tools

Supplier Management Software

Job description

Procurement Practice Category Specialist, Technology

Procurement Practice Team Lead/Consultant | Mid-Level | Full time

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 738,000 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 with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed 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.

You Are:

Accenture is seeking a Procurement Category Specialist, Technology to collaborate with external clients to develop sourcing strategies across Technology spend areas including: Cloud, Infrastructure, Software, Technology Managed Service Providers, and Telecom. You will work with clients to support each company’s business goals while achieving optimal commercial structure, quality and service levels. In this capacity, you will have substantial involvement in supporting sales and solution design for prospective new client accounts and in helping procurement organizations expand their involvement and control of non-traditional spend areas.

The Work:

• Work collaboratively with Accenture Technology Sourcing Advisory Leadership, suppliers, and client stakeholders to identify Value, ROI, and Savings opportunities within Technology investments across a wide array of leading companies and industries.
• Lead end-to-end sourcing projects, including all key steps such as strategy development, supplier negotiation, award recommendations, business case presentations and supplier contract execution, leveraging an Agile approach to drive efficiency in execution.
• Provide industry and supplier research, market intelligence and financial analyses to clients.
• Support development of market insights from cross-client sourcing activity and collaborate with Technology Practice advisors to develop content that enables knowledge sharing across the organization.
• Pursue and develop senior level stakeholder relationships at priority accounts; support account stakeholder relationship plans.
• Lead Category Strategy development for specified clients to identify project opportunities that achieve client goals and mature their procurement function.
• Mentor sourcing team on technology sourcing best practices with a special emphasis on technology market trends and insights, commercial structure assessment, negotiation strategies and contracting best practices.
• Engage with prospective clients during business development pursuits through support of contract assessments, client due diligence calls, and presenting the practice delivery approach and case studies.

Multiple Locations | Mid-Level | Full time