Skill required: Procurement Operations

• Sourcing and Procurement Strategy

Designation: Procurement Practice Senior Manager

Qualifications: Any Graduation **Years of Experience:**16 to 25 years About Accenture Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security.

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What would you do? You will be aligned with our Procurement vertical and help us in the process of finding and agreeing to terms, and acquiring goods, services, or works from an external source, often via a tendering or competitive bidding process. Procurement is used to ensure the buyer receives goods, services, or works at the best possible price when aspects such as quality, quantity, time, and location are
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You will be aligned with our Procurement vertical in a Global Process Owner (GPO) role and would be assigned to oversee the P2P processes of one or multiple clients. In this role, you would work with the business or client stakeholders to design and deploy the end-to-end P2P processes, focused on performance, standardization, and have global enforcement. You will be expected to help the clients identify and monitor business metrics, benchmark them to global industry standards, leverage best-in-class technology platforms to improve process performance, and most importantly, help implement an operating model which suits the client’s needs and organizational setup. As part of the leadership role, you are expected to manage stakeholders (both internal and external), focus on people development, and work with clients to add value to the existing operations
The Procurement Support team focuses on identifying the requirements for goods and services from all business units. The team is responsible for identifying and evaluating a list of suppliers, negotiating contracts with the selected supplier, raising a purchase requisition and releasing the purchase order. The team is also responsible for completing the payment process upon receiving an invoice, auditing the delivery of requested goods/services and maintaining proper records of invoices

What are we looking for? •Ability to perform under pressure

• Ability to establish strong client relationship
• Ability to handle disputes
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders
• Ability to meet deadlines Roles and Responsibilities: •In this role you are required to identify and assess complex problems for area of responsibility
• You will need to create solutions in situations which requires an in-depth analysis/evaluation of variable factors
• This will require alignment to strategic direction set by senior management when establishing near-term goals
• Your primary interaction will be with senior management at a client and/or within Accenture, involving matters that may require acceptance of an alternate approach
• Some latitude in decision-making is involved, you will act independently to determine methods and procedures on new assignments
• You will need to flag risks to clients and Accenture stakeholders and propose action plans where needed
• You will need to have an innovative mindset to identify improvement opportunities to optimize processes, decrease costs and increase client value
• Decisions that you make in this role will have a major day to day impact on area of responsibility
• You will be managing medium - large sized teams and/or work efforts at a client or within Accenture
• You would require transformation mindset and eye for identifying automation/process improvement opportunities

Any Graduation

About Accenture

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