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Roles & Responsibilities: Provide strategic advisory services, conduct market research, and develop data-driven recommendations to enhance business performance. As a part of our Supply chain and operations practice, you will help organizations reimagine and transform their supply chains for tomorrowwith a positive impact on the business, society and the planet. 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, with the following initiatives: 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, intelligent procurement using tools such as Ariba, Coupa, IVALUA, Zycus and Jaggaer, 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. Design and build assets that distinguish Accenture capabilities to drive additional business. Bring your best skills forward to excel in the role: Empathetic leadership skills with expert communication, mediation, influencing, and coaching abilities Strong program management skills such as budget management, project planning, time management, communication, decision-making, presentation, and organization skills Excellent data analytics, 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 Professional & Technical Skills: - Relevant experience in the required domain. - Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills. - Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. 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.
