Performance Improvement Supply Chain Optimization Consultant Manager

About the role

Crowe’s Performance Improvement practice helps clients significantly improve their profitability by solving supply chain, procurement / sourcing, supplier management / development, and operational challenges. They develop an executable improvement plan and align stakeholders, quantify the financial value associated with implementing the improvements, and partner with clients to drive value capture.

Responsibilities

• Manage strategic sourcing engagements, including leading development of global supply strategies, building category strategies, managing competitive sourcing initiatives, owning complex value creation workstreams, and driving procurement transformations, logistics, and operational excellence strategies with clients.
• Oversee the team’s daily work, build and maintain productive relationships with client stakeholders, and lead and manage their own workstreams.
• Lead strategic sourcing engagements, including conducting executive and front-line leader interviews, developing a spend cube and performance analytics, leading organizational sourcing and procurement maturity assessments, building detailed category sourcing strategies, facilitating ideation workshops, and presenting insights and strategies to executive leaders.
• Manage supply chain assessments, including conducting job observations, developing a spend cube and performance analytics, leading organizational sourcing and procurement maturity assessments, building detailed category sourcing strategies, facilitating ideation workshops, and presenting insights and strategies to executive leaders.
• Manage implementation of recommendations, including engaging and leading client relationships, leading execution of category strategies through final negotiations and award recommendations, and leading implementation of resulting supplier agreements.
• Support client optimization of sourcing and procurement organizational structures, policies, processes, and management practices; and assume ownership for ad hoc value creation workstreams when appropriate.
• Manage logistics or operational consulting engagements, including assessing, designing, and implementing broader operational and supply chain transformation projects, leading and managing execution of complex consulting value workstreams, providing operational, financial, and process analysis, strategy development, process reengineering, and modeling.

Qualifications

• Travel 95% of the time – Sunday through Thursday, more than 45 weeks a year (no flexibility on this)
• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management or a relevant field required, or more than ten (10) years of professional field experience
• More than seven (7) years of strategic sourcing experience – creating and executing category strategies independently, in industry or as a consultant
• More than three (3) years of experience managing projects and people
• Personable and able to pass the airplane test
• Self-starter with the demonstrated ability to drive results independently
• Ability and interest in learning new skills quickly and often
• Ability to conduct analytics that generate insights versus pivot charts (including proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint, and the ability to ramp up on Power BI quickly)
• Ability to connect issues and opportunities back to clients’ financials
• Ability to say more with fewer words in your professional writing
• Ability to interact and present to all levels of the organization, including executive leaders weekly
• Ability to monitor teammate performance, give feedback and coach others
• Ability to build and maintain productive relationships with our clients and throughout the Firm

Benefits

At Crowe, we offer a comprehensive total rewards package, including benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off. We also provide a supportive and inclusive work environment that values diversity and promotes a culture of care, trust, courage, and stewardship.