Strategic Sourcing & Performance Improvement Lead

Crowe; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 95,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

Crowe is seeking Senior Supply Chain Consultants to lead strategic sourcing engagements and deliver operational and financial results for clients in the US. You will shape global supply strategies, build category plans, and drive procurement transformations while traveling up to 95% of the time.

You will lead assessments, develop analytics with Power BI, and present insights to executives. The role requires experience in sourcing, logistics, and operational excellence, with a strong

Qualifications

• Travel 95% of the time – Sunday through Thursday, more than 45 weeks a year (no flexibility on this)
• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management or a relevant field required, or more than ten (10) years of professional field experience
• More than three (3) years of strategic sourcing experience – creating and executing category strategies independently, in industry or as a consultant

Responsibilities

• Your primary focus would be supporting our strategic sourcing engagements, including:
• Supporting supply chain assessments
• Leading organizational sourcing and procurement maturity assessments to understand gaps and opportunities and develop improvement plans
• Building out detailed category sourcing strategies with clients to shape plans to improve commercial terms and improve alignment with suppliers
• Facilitating ideation workshops independently to gain alignment with stakeholders and refine strategies grounded in feedback
• Building assessment reports and confidently presenting insights and strategies to executive leaders
• Post-assessment, leading a delivery workstream:
• Leading execution of three (3) to four (4) category strategies through final negotiations and award recommendations
• Leading implementation of resulting supplier agreements
• Supporting client optimization of sourcing and procurement organizational structures, policies, processes, and management practices
• Our Supply Chain Sr. Consultants can also be assigned to logistics or operational consulting engagements from time to time when appropriate, which involve elements such as:
• Collaborating with our extended team and client(s) to assess, design, and implement broader operational and supply chain transformation projects for diverse industries
• Leading execution of complex consulting value workstreams, providing operational, financial, and process analysis, strategy development, process reengineering, and modeling

Skills

Supply chain

Procurement

Power BI

Excel

PowerPoint

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management or relevant field

Tools

Power BI

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Crowe is seeking Senior Supply Chain Consultants to lead strategic sourcing engagements and deliver operational and financial results for clients in the US. You will shape global supply strategies, build category plans, and drive procurement transformations while traveling up to 95% of the time.

You will lead assessments, develop analytics with Power BI, and present insights to executives. The role requires experience in sourcing, logistics, and operational excellence, with a strong