Supply Chain & Operations Consultant (Sourcing & Procurement & Operational Excellence)

Career Level: Consultant

Company Background

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You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.

If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you!

Supply Chain and Operations is a major functionally-oriented consulting practice: we help our clients to identify and quantify the transformational opportunities available in today’s dynamic business environment.

Our work spans a range of value-focused operations assignments from redefining an operating model, reconfiguring national, regional or global supply chain footprint and capabilities through to global sourcing of core categories and creation of supply chain risk frameworks to ensure that potential risks are transparent and the extended supply chain is resilient.

In our team you will:

• Learn at the forefront of the industry, provide actionable insights to the world's top organisations, helping them address priority C-suite issues with strategies and improvements they can execute with speed and at scale
• Work in a central role enabling our Sourcing & Procurement capabilities in working with some of the most prominent global companies in the world, responsible for helping the CPO, and their business partners, address some of the critical business issues faced today, including:
• Procurement Strategy Definition
• Procurement Transformation (Operating Model, Process Design, etc.)
• Strategic Cost Reduction (Closed Loop Spend Management)
• Direct & Indirect Sourcing Optimisation
• Contract Management (Compliance, Contract Lifecycle Management, etc.)
• Third Party Risk Management (Risk Mitigation, Compliance, Operational Resilience)
• Intelligent Procurement (Technology Strategy, Systems Implementation, etc.)
• Responsible and Resilient Procurement (Risk, Performance, Innovation, Diversity, Sustainability)
• Mergers and Acquisitions (Pre and Post Merger Integration)
• Procurement and sourcing processes evaluation to identify inefficiencies, gaps, and opportunities for cost reduction.

In this role you will:

• Work with leadership at our clients to develop their strategic approach to procuring material and services including make/buy decisions throughout their value chain in order to optimise efficiency and client value.
• Design and prove the strategic business case for procurement transformations (alongside the rest of Accenture’s network). This will include the strategic assessment of the optimal digital and analytics solution for sourcing and procurement (including but not limited SAP Ariba, Oracle, Coupa, Jaggaer, iValua).
• Work in a team to deliver strategic engagements in our Sourcing & Procurement group to formulate and execute strategic cost reduction and sourcing strategies for material categories
• Document and analyse procurement workflows to identify inefficiencies, optimize supplier interactions, and improve procurement cycles. Skilled in using process mapping tools to streamline sourcing strategies, reduce lead times, and enhance overall procurement performance.
• Deliver sourcing & procurement transformations in line with client’s business challenges:
• Create capabilities (process/tools/people) in line with the future operating model
• Analyse and model financial data to support large scale cost reduction programmes, utilising functional and cost category benchmarks, process definitions and enterprise value targeting tools
• Help clients improve their ability to drive business outcomes through digital planning, reporting, and analytics
• Help clients harness digital and emerging technology solutions to power their operational strategies (including via RPA, IoT, Blockchain, Analytics, AI)
• Develop and implement third party risk management strategies to help clients mitigate supplier risks, ensure regulatory compliance, and enhance overall supply chain resilience
• Support value chain transformation projects across functional areas within and outside of supply chain, focusing on process reinvention, operational excellence, and cost transformation
• Refine and optimise the client's ability to organise and analyse financial, operational and external information to create substantial shareholder value
• Maintain an understanding of advancements in technology and innovations which are happening across digital, analytics, the Procurement ecosystem and broader marketplace
• Support business development opportunities and prepare sales proposals
• Execute client engagements, with a strong capability to develop the skills and capabilities of junior colleagues