Sourcing & Category Representative

THE WORK: Discover the opportunity to make impactful decisions and collaborate across multiple groups to drive meaningful solutions. You will collaborate and manage various contributors to perform effectively, engage with multiple groups, and contribute to key decisions that influence broader outcomes. This role will involve providing solutions to challenges that span across different areas, all while reflecting a deep expertise in Sourcing and Procurement. Join us to be part of a dynamic environment where your insights and collaboration will be highly valued and celebrated.

Manage the execution of procurement and category management delivery to ensure alignment with organizational goals.
Design and implement recommendations related to cost, process, and operations to foster innovation and efficiency.
Define strategy, products, deliverables, and value propositions that support business objectives.
Ensure that service level agreements are consistently met to maintain high standards of performance.
Provide oversight of subcontractor functions within procurement, including managing the Contractor Exchange.

What would you do Procurement Category Manager collaborating with external clients to develop and execute Logistics and Supply Chain sourcing strategies. Supports Fortune 500 business goals by achieving optimal pricing, quality, and service levels, while contributing to sales, solution design, and expanding procurement control over non traditional spend areas.
Pursue senior stakeholder relationships, develop category plans, lead sourcing projects negotiations, award recommendations, business cases and contract execution. Manage supplier collaboration, performance, risk, innovation and agreements through the lifecycle. Provide market intelligence and financial analysis, mentor teams, support change, governance, benefit realization and transparent costs across key clients.
Acts independently and interfaces with customers and suppliers through strong written and verbal communication. Manages matrix organizations with key clients using analytical, organization, time management and problem solving skills. Brings solution oriented selling, change leadership, project management, strategic sourcing and negotiation experience, Microsoft Office proficiency and relationship building strength.

HERE'S WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

Master proficiency in Sourcing and Procurement.
A minimum of 8-14 years of experience in relevant related skills.
Bachelor's Degree in relevant field of studies.

English C1.

BONUS POINTS IF YOU HAVE:

Expert proficiency in Supplier Analysis & Selection.
Expert proficiency in Supplier Contract Management.
Advanced proficiency in Negotiation.
Intermediate proficiency in Risk Management.
Advanced proficiency in Strategic Planning.

About Accenture

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 approximately 791,000 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 and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent 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.

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