Performance Improvement Supply Chain Optimization Consultant Senior Consultant

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;
• developing an executable improvement plan and aligning stakeholders;
• quantifying the financial value associated with implementing the improvements;
• partnering with our clients to drive value capture (e.g., we deliver bottom-line results, not PowerPoint presentations).

  Responsibilities

  We need more Supply Chain Senior Consultant(s) to lead aspects of our strategic sourcing engagements, including helping to shape global supply strategies, building category strategies, leading competitive sourcing initiatives, and supporting procurement transformations, logistics, and operational excellence engagements.

  To accomplish this, our Sr. Consultants are only responsible for working on one client challenge at a time - fully dedicating their focus to leading and driving an operational and financial result in their area of ownership; working mostly independently.

  To be effective, our teams work on site with our clients; as such, this position requires your ability to travel 95% of the time.

  To summarize, you need to be confident in your ability to independently drive results, and weekly travel cannot be an issue.

  Your primary focus would be supporting our strategic sourcing engagements, including:

  • Supporting supply chain assessments:
  • Conducting executive and front-line leader interviews and completing job observations;
  • Developing a spend cube and performance analytics to shape category events and enable impact tracking (leveraging Power BI);
  • Leading organizational sourcing and procurement maturity assessments to understand gaps and opportunities and develop improvement plans;
  • Building out detailed category sourcing strategies with clients to shape plans to improve commercial terms and improve alignment with suppliers;
  • Facilitating ideation workshops independently to gain alignment with stakeholders and refine strategies grounded in feedback;
  • Building assessment reports and confidently presenting insights and strategies to executive leaders;
  • Post-assessment, leading a delivery workstream:
  • Leading execution of three (3) to four (4) category strategies through final negotiations and award recommendations;
  • Supporting client optimization of sourcing and procurement organizational structures, policies, processes, and management practices;

  Our Supply Chain Sr. Consultants can also be assigned to logistics or operational consulting engagements from time to time when appropriate, which involve elements such as:

  • Collaborating with our extended team and client(s) to assess, design, and implement broader operational and supply chain transformation projects for diverse industries;
  • Leading 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 three (3) years of strategic sourcing experience – creating and executing category strategies independently, in industry or as a consultant
  • Life skills vital for being qualified/successful in our practice: Personable and able to pass the airplane test – we work to lead and influence stakeholders in every aspect of our client engagements; as such, this is critical.
  • 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

  Benefits

  Your exceptional people experience starts here. At Crowe, we know that great people are what makes a great firm. We care about our people and offer employees a comprehensive total rewards package.

  Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you!