Performance Improvement Supply Chain Optimization 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; and
• Partnering with our clients to drive value capture (e.g., we deliver bottom-line results, not PowerPoint presentations).

As a Supply Chain Senior Consultant, you will lead aspects of our strategic sourcing engagements, including shaping global supply strategies, building category strategies, leading competitive sourcing initiatives, and supporting procurement transformations, logistics, and operational excellence engagements. This role requires the ability to travel 95% of the time and work independently on one client challenge at a time, fully dedicating your focus to driving operational and financial results.

Responsibilities

• Support supply chain assessments by:
  • 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 detailed category sourcing strategies with clients to improve commercial terms and alignment with suppliers;
  • Facilitating ideation workshops independently to gain stakeholder alignment and refine strategies;
  • Building assessment reports and presenting insights and strategies to executive leaders.
• Post-assessment, lead a delivery workstream by:
  • Leading execution of three to four category strategies through final negotiations and award recommendations;
  • Leading implementation of resulting supplier agreements;
  • Supporting client optimization of sourcing and procurement organizational structures, policies, processes, and management practices.
• Collaborate on logistics or operational consulting engagements, including:
  • Assessing, designing, and implementing 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.

Requirements

• 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 years of professional field experience;
• More than three years of strategic sourcing experience – creating and executing category strategies independently, in industry or as a consultant.

Qualifications

Life skills vital for success in this role:

• Personable and able to pass the "airplane test" – critical for leading and influencing stakeholders;
• Self-starter with demonstrated ability to drive results independently;
• Ability and interest in learning new skills quickly and often;
• Proficiency in analytics that generate insights (including Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint, and ability to ramp up on Power BI quickly);
• Ability to connect issues and opportunities back to clients’ financials;
• Strong professional writing skills – ability to convey more with fewer words;
• Ability to interact and present to all levels of the organization, including executive leaders weekly.

We expect candidates to uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship and act ethically with integrity at all times.

Pay

The wage range for this role is $95,000.00 - $147,000.00 per year, taking into account factors such as skill sets, experience, training, licensure, certifications, and other business and organizational needs.

Benefits

Crowe offers a comprehensive total rewards package, including:

• Exceptional people experience in an inclusive culture that values diversity;
• Consistent career coaching to guide professional growth and aspirations;
• Additional details available on the firm’s careers page.