Sourcing & Procurement Management Consultant - NASPFY26

About the role

We are Sourcing & Procurement at Accenture. We move fast, think fast, and work fast. Our clients need big-picture change, so we come at their challenges from all sides with functional insights, data power, digital leadership, and extensive industry know-how. It’s our job to show clients how to take major leaps forward in cost-out, strategic category management, and procurement operations.

Responsibilities

• Solving challenging problems and applying creativity and innovation
• Create robust sourcing strategies and cost-out recommendations
• Drive category insights, analysis, and benchmarking
• Build and review robust analytics models via Excel, Alteryx, SQL
• Synthesize disparate data sources into insights and clear deliverables
• Work with clients to identify and interpret key project requirements
• Nurture relationships with client stakeholders
• Facilitate development of project plans and overall project management to ensure effective delivery of client project work and client deliverables
• Develop presentations and key deliverables to support decision making
• Communicate findings and recommendations to internal teams and client stakeholders
• Achieve excellence and dependability through the execution of projects and initiatives

Requirements

• Minimum of 2.5 years of experience executing Strategic Sourcing projects/programs
• Minimum 2.5 years of experience developing and executing cost optimization strategies
• Strong acumen surrounding problem solving and data analytics tools (e.g. Excel, Alteryx, SQL, R, Power BI)
• Demonstrated ability to structure data, check and “QA” models, and build executive-ready dashboards and summaries
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. If associate degree, must have a minimum of 6 years’ work experience
• Bonus points if Management consulting experience with a well-regarded firm
• Comfortable in an entrepreneurial, performance-driven environment and a capacity for innovation and process improvement
• Demonstrated abilities in problem solving and independent decision-making capabilities
• Ability to effectively take on multiple projects, tasks, and initiatives simultaneously
• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
• Self-starter mindset and bias towards proactively taking initiative to learn, grow, and advance projects
• Prior experience in driving insights using visualization tools (e.g., Power BI and Tableau) and analytics tools (e.g. Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics)
• Earned an MBA or equivalent graduate degree

Qualifications

Annual Salary Range: Varies depending on factors including location, role, skill set, and level of experience. See more details here.

Benefits

Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here.

Pay

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.

Schedule

Travel is required for this role and could vary from 10-50%.