Skill required:
Sourcing - Sourcing and Procurement Strategy
Designation:
Delivery Operations Associate Manager
Qualifications:
Any Graduation
Years of Experience:
10 to 14 years
About Accenture
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What would you do?
As a member of the technology sourcing practice, you will be responsible for identifying cost/productivity improvement opportunities in spend across a wide array of leading companies and industries. You will lead sourcing projects, including all key steps such as strategy development, RFx management, risk management/mitigation, supplier negotiation, award recommendations, business case presentations, and supplier contract execution. You will work with the legal and technical teams to facilitate the negotiations of the legal and technical terms in a contract and execute it. You will also provide industry and supplier research, market intelligence, and financial analyses to clients, support the 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. You will pursue and develop senior-level stakeholder relationships at priority accounts and support account relationship plans. What you bring: To succeed in this role, you must be a strong critical thinker and self-starter, able to work independently with high-level guidance and minimal supervision. A passion for continuous learning across industries (IT, banking, retail, industrial, healthcare, etc.) with end-to-end technology sourcing experience is essential. Strong analytical skills to interpret numeric and text data and turn it into actionable client recommendations are required. Preferably, you are an engineer with a full-time MBA and at least 8 years’ relevant experience in strategic sourcing, category management, or software/infrastructure/IT services. Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills are a must, along with 5+ years managing global customers and suppliers (NA, EMEA, APAC) and 3+ years leading teams of 5+ members. Minimal travel to multiple customer locations may be required.
What are we looking for?
NA NA
Roles and Responsibilities:
- In this role you are required to do analysis and solving of moderately complex problems
- Typically creates new solutions, leveraging and, where needed, adapting existing methods and procedures
- The person requires understanding of the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to team goals
- Primary upward interaction is with direct supervisor or team leads
- Generally interacts with peers and/or management levels at a client and/or within Accenture
- The person should require minimal guidance when determining methods and procedures on new assignments
- Decisions often impact the team in which they reside and occasionally impact other teams
- Individual would manage medium-small sized teams and/or work efforts (if in an individual contributor role) at a client or within Accenture
- Please note that this role may require you to work in rotational shifts