Accenture - Consultant - Sourcing & Procurement

Accenture's Consulting workforce is involved in business consulting, process design work and the application of technologies to business. Management Consulting professionals take responsibility for organizational change and business transformation by helping clients design and execute new strategies, processes and business solutions. A career in Consulting is varied and stimulating because each project presents a new challenge and will give you exposure to new clients, business issues, technologies and people. We need people who are able to challenge conventional thought, offer unique perspectives and conceive more innovative solutions for our clients.

Working as a Consultant with Accenture, you will build core business and industry expertise helping to deliver world-class business solutions that enable clients to become high performance businesses.

Capability Network - Operations - Sourcing & Procurement

Location: Gurgaon, Mumbai, Bangalore

Job Description:

An 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.

The analyst is expected to work as part of a global team to successfully execute individual sourcing and procurement related work streams, such as strategically sourcing a commodity, conducting spend analytics / market intelligence, identifying cost reduction or process improvement opportunities etc.

Required Experience and Skills:

- In-depth understanding of sourcing and procurement fundamentals coupled with consulting / industry experience across sourcing direct commodities, supplier development, supplier risk management, procurement operating model design / implementation and procure to pay process transformation

- Experience in a consulting firm and global exposure is desirable

- Excellent data analytics / data interpretation and presentation skills are essential

- Strong written and verbal communication skills area must

- Should have good project and people management skills

- This role would involve a certain amount of travel. There needs to be flexibility from this perspective

Functional Capability and Expertise:

- Ability to Identify evaluate and prioritize sourcing opportunities in alignment with financial objectives, ability to perform spend analysis

- Ability to Identify and pursue involvement in areas within the company in which the Strategic Sourcing organization can add value

- Conduct effective market research on industry best practices systems and products, and apply Porter 5 Forces, SWOT analysis

- Interpret data quickly and elevate potential issues to appropriate level of review

- Effectively request analyze and evaluate vendor proposals (RFI/RFQs) and present findings

- Ability to endorse and embed effectively the strategic sourcing process

- Assist in developing long and short term sourcing strategies objectives and scope for defined commodities

- Actively influence key business partner decisions by recommending best sourcing strategy

- Assist in setting direction for supplier development and evaluation programs

- Familiarity with sourcing and procurement related modules of ERP systems (SAP, Ariba) or business intelligence tools such as Emptoris, Zycus, Sievo would be an added advantage

- Knowledge of MS Access, SQL would be an additional advantage