Skill required: Sourcing - Sourcing
Designation: Procurement Practice Senior Analyst
Qualifications:BBA/Master of Business Administration
Years of Experience:5 to 8 years
About Accenture
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What would you do? We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented sourcing professional to support sourcing projects within the Source-to-Contract (S2C) lifecycle. You will apply strong analytical skills, problem-solving, and business judgment to deliver sourcing activities and contribute to measurable client outcomes. In this role, you will support sourcing strategies, execute sourcing events, and conduct supplier and market analyses. You will also champion the practical application of AI and digital tools to accelerate workflows, enhance reporting, and ensure quality of deliverables. As a collaborative contributor, you will work with clients, suppliers, and cross-functional teams, while developing your own expertise through continuous learning, coaching, and applied experience
What are we looking for? Qualifications & Experience Experience: 3–5 years of procurement, sourcing, and/or consulting experience, with the ability to adapt across multiple spend areas. Sourcing & Procurement Expertise: Hands-on experience executing sourcing events and supplier evaluations; emerging ability to support strategy development and deliver procurement advisory insights. AI Literacy: Demonstrate the ability to efficiently and responsibly use AI in day to day work, including the following. Please note candidates with Source to Contract experience are welcome, even if they have not used AI tools in your work; candidates without direct experienceare expected to have an ability to adopt new methods that imrpove speed, quality and risk management in sourcing and contracting. All candidates should approach AI with curiosity, structured thinking and a willingness to challenge old ways of working. Practical, consistent use of enterprise AI assistants to complete core S2C tasks with sound judgment and quality control. Ability to translate business goals into clear prompts and iterate quickly to produce accurate, usable outputs. Habit of validating AI outputs against source data, policies, and stakeholder guidance. Ability to prepare and refine documents for effective AI use (e.g., reformatting tables, flattening tracked changes, converting scans/PDFs, adding headers/context) so assistants can parse them reliably. Market & Analytical Skills: Strong numeric and text-based analysis; ability to evaluate supplier proposals, contracts, and pricing. Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement: Ability to build supplier and stakeholder trust; effective communicator across remote and in-person environments. Project Management: Ability to manage multiple priorities and workstreams; adapts effectively to complex organizational structures and matrixed environments. Behaviors: Strong critical thinker, self-starter, adaptable problem-solver; passionate about continuous self-learning and professional growth. Communication & Storytelling: Strong written and verbal communication skills; proven ability to prepare structured deliverables and tailor messaging for diverse audiences, including executives. Tools & Platforms: Proficiency in procurement platforms, Microsoft Office Suite, and AI-enabled productivity tools. Education: Bachelor’s degree required (or equivalent professional experience). Advanced certifications (e.g., CPSM, MCIPS) preferred
Roles and Responsibilities: •Lead or support (depending on complexity) sourcing initiatives across the S2C lifecycle, including supplier outreach, RFx support, negotiations, award recommendations, and contract preparation. Leverage industry and supplier research, and market intelligence to perform financial and commercial analysis to support negotiation strategies, identify savings opportunities, and highlight risks. Assist in development of market insights and collaborate to create content that enables knowledge sharing across the organization and contributes to thought leadership. Support creation of category strategy in partnership with more senior resources with identified opportunities that achieve client goals and mature their procurement function. Apply AI and digital tools (enterprise-approved assistants, GenAI platforms) to sourcing tasks such as RFx drafting, spend classification, contract clause review, and data summarization, ensuring outputs are validated and compliant. Willingness to travel up to 50% to multiple customer locations.

BBA,Master of Business Administration

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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