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Job Summary: The Consultant/Analyst 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 Show more Show less
