Sobre esta vaga de Procurement Specialist with English - Logistics na Accenture
We Are:
Accenture is one of the world’s leading providers of sourcing and procurement services, we help our clients architect, build and operate high performance procurement organizations through our global and flexible solutions. At Accenture, we partner with forward-thinking business leaders, of the world’s most dynamic companies, to transform procurement and drive sustainable changes to their cost structures.
As one of the leading procurement business process services specialists, Accenture excels at helping companies build the foundation for long-term growth. We are committed to delivering exceptional service through our exceptional people, and as an employee you’d enjoy a fulfilling career in an innovative environment where challenging and interesting work is part of daily life.
Join Accenture and help transform leading organizations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance. Choose Accenture and make delivering innovative work part of your extraordinary career.
Accenture people build careers in four different areas of our business: Consulting, Technology, Business Process Services and internal Corporate Functions. Each area offers a unique career experience and a compelling mix of work and training opportunities, work environment and structure for career progression.
Business Process Services professionals work on projects across a range of business processes, business applications and information technology. They may provide technology services, such as application management, infrastructure management and systems integration, or they may deliver business process services, including finance and accounting, procurement and human resources. Depending on the role, Business Process Services professionals may be based at a client’s office or in one of Accenture’s 50 delivery centers around the world.
You Are:
Accenture is seeking a Sourcing Execution Specialist to provide full, life cycle procurement support of business-driven projects in Logistics Services for Fortune 500 companies. In this capacity, you will have frequent interaction with team members and customers in the execution of projects that help customers achieve significant value in the form of improved pricing, quality, delivery, supplier performance and other aspects of total cost. Additionally, this role will have substantial involvement in supporting sales and solution design and in helping procurement organizations expand their involvement and control of non-traditional spend areas.
The Work:
Proactively manages and monitors own and team execution of data and project and supplier deliverables and status on sourcing execution projects in an effective manner
Lead sourcing projects, including all key steps such as strategy development, supplier negotiation, award recommendations, business case presentations and supplier contract execution
Identify cost/productivity improvement opportunities in Logistics spending across a wide array of leading companies
Pursue and develop senior level stakeholder relationships at priority accounts; support account stakeholder relationship plans
Promote corporate objectives and change initiatives, ensuring that the Logistics sourcing team is supporting overall company direction and growth
Help our customers address urgent and critical business initiatives and projects with strong procurement support
Responsible for creating RFPs and negotiating purchases and contracts for services on behalf of Accenture customers
Perform supplier research and identification and perform RFP analyses such as rate card analyses, basic TCO, etc
Communicate frequently and professionally with customer stakeholders regarding the status of the procurement aspect of the project including creation of the sourcing strategy, development of the RFP, scorecard, and Statement of Work, and other sourcing and contracting documents
Offer creative solutions to support sourcing projects and achieve desired results
Grow team management skills, coaching team members in the art of Negotiation and Contracting
Expand business development skills to identify and propose account growth opportunities for additional sourcing services
Participate in initiatives aimed at improving productivity and efficiency to support company and account growth
Mentor sourcing team on stakeholder and project management, with a special emphasis on collaboration, customer focus, delivery excellence, continuous improvement, negotiations and contracting
Here’s What You Need:
Bachelor's Degree
Minimum of 4 years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, supply chain management, or managing suppliers
Minimum of 2 years of experience in contracting/negotiation processes and best practices in the Logistics category
Bonus Points:
Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Logistics or a quantitative discipline
Post-graduate Degree, preferred
Strong proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Excel, and Word and presentation software (i.e. Microsoft PowerPoint)
Solid understanding of and experience with quantitative and qualitative analysis
Knowledge of procurement operations
Proficient knowledge in Logistics areas including Truckload, Less-than-Truckload, Global Ocean, Global Air, Small Parcel, 3PL/warehousing, Rail
Professional Skills:
Experience working directly with key stakeholders in business units
Exceptional multi-tasking skills with the ability to manage multiple end-to-end project cycles
Excellent communication, organization/time management and problem solving skills
Strong project management and relationship-building skills
Adaptable communication style to enable conformance with our customers’ varied corporate cultures and organizational structures
Travel Requirements:
This position requires travel of approximately 10% to support client projects or continuing education.
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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.Visit us at www.accenture.com
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