This position of Procurement Sourcing Lead (Category Captain) deals primarily with external clients like Fortune 500 companies. They help create and implement sourcing strategies in the areas of logistics and supply chain, such as domestic and international transportation and supply chain services.
Accenture provides a vibrant work culture across its offices. The corporate culture is characterized by innovation, teamwork, and delivering exceptional results for clients by ingenuity and technology.
In case you are interested in being one of the major players in the area of strategic procurement transformation and customer cooperation, we invite you to take a look at the complete job advertisement that follows below.
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Employer Details
Company Name : Accenture
Location : Alberta – Calgary, British Columbia – Vancouver, Quebec – Montreal
Salary : $35.58 to $59.62 per hour
Job Type : Full Time
Start date : As soon as possible
Benefits : good compensation according to experience, location etc, equal opportunity at work, inclusive and supportive work culture, relevant accommodations, open libraries for employees
Job Description
- A full-time Procurement Sourcing Lead position is mainly responsible for client collaboration in sourcing strategies meant for the logistics and transportation cost centers.
- Usually involves the standard full-time number of hours a week with a highly cooperative and participative work atmosphere involving both internal teams and external clients.
- This will lead to more productive and long-term client relationships due to the alignment of sourcing and procurement with business goals, cost-management, and service-optimization.
- The tasks undertaken will consist of the sales-support, solution-design, and moving forward procurement role in the complex spend categories.
- You will be working in a global professional services organization that merges digital capabilities and advanced manpower to solve client issues.
- You will get a chance to be involved in the logistics and supply-chain initiatives of the large enterprise customers.
Responsibilities
- Build and sustain relationships with senior stakeholders and support account plans.
- Draw up strategic category plans to spot cost and productivity opportunities.
- Oversee supplier’s interaction in terms of performance, risk, collaboration, and innovation.
- Manage end-to-end strategic sourcing projects from the conception of the strategy to the signing of the contracts.
- Disseminate market intelligence along with financial analysis and supplier research.
- Share cross-client insights and help Procurement Category with their initiatives.
- Advance corporate objectives and facilitate the acceptance of change and growth in the organization.
- Management of the entire contract life cycle from the establishment of the contract to its termination.
- Create systems for tracking expenses and how a work is done.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of work done in the field of consulting, sourcing, procurement, or supply-chain-management.
- The person should possess excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- A minimum of 6 years spent in the transportation of goods by truckload, LTL, air, ocean, and parcel modes as well as working with 3PL/warehousing companies.
- The individual should be able to work in the matrix times and change the project from one phase to another.
- Must have the knowledge of strategic sourcing, negotiation, and different corporate cultures.
- Advanced user of Microsoft Office (Excel and PowerPoint).
- Open to traveling: 50% (initially up to 75%).
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