Sourcing & Procurement Management Marketing Consultant - NASPFY26

About the role

We are a team focused on sourcing and procurement, dedicated to helping clients transform their strategies and operations. Our consultants bring a blend of functional insights, data power, digital leadership, and industry know-how to tackle complex challenges.

Responsibilities

• Solving challenging problems and applying creativity and innovation
• Create robust sourcing strategies and recommendations
• Drive category insights, analysis, and benchmarking
• Synthesize disparate data sources into actionable insights
• 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
• 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
• Support Accenture’s Marketing Center of Excellence by creating deliverable content to capture marketing category knowledge and support business development

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of experience executing Strategic Sourcing projects/programs, including exposure to Marketing negotiations
• Minimum 1 year experience with Microsoft Office (Excel & PowerPoint) products, including the ability to develop and interpret complex analytical models and ad-hoc reports
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If associate degree, must have a minimum of 6 years’ work experience)
• Marketing category and procurement expertise in one or more of these subcategories: Creative Agencies, Media Buying & Planning, PR Agencies, Experiential Agencies, Market Research, MarTech, Digital/Social Marketing, Commercial Print, and Promotional Items

Qualifications

• Management consulting experience with a well-regarded firm (strongly preferred)
• Management consulting experience in a client-facing role
• Prior experience in driving insights using visualization tools (i.e., Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx) and analytics tools (i.e., Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics)
• Earned an MBA or equivalent graduate degree
• 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
• You are comfortable in an entrepreneurial, performance-driven environment and a capacity for innovation and process improvement

Skills

• Strategic Sourcing experience
• Marketing category and procurement expertise
• Data analysis and modeling
• Visualization and analytics tools
• Project management and planning
• Communication and presentation skills
• Problem-solving and decision-making
• Client relationship management

Benefits

• Market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage
• 401(k) plan
• Bonus opportunities
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off

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 10-40%