Skill required: Agile Sourcing

• Sourcing

Designation: Procurement Practice Senior Analyst

Qualifications: BE/BTech/Master of Business Administration **Years of Experience:**5 to 8 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? Go beyond processing purchase orders at lower costs to help clients reap savings and value from the billions they spend on the goods and services that run their day-to-day business operations.
Agile Sourcing involves quickly and efficiently finding and acquiring resources or services needed for a project. This includes identifying suppliers, negotiating contracts, and ensuring timely delivery. The goal is to support agile project management by being responsive and adaptable. Responsibilities include maintaining supplier relationships and optimizing procurement processes. This role is essential for keeping projects on track and within budget.
Understand when & how to use a request for proposal (price and non-price factors) and RFQ (price only) and how to develop, execute and analyze the results. Collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative information to assess, screen and select suppliers.

• Accenture seeks a Senior Sourcing Analyst to collaborate with internal and external clients to support sourcing strategies related to various spend areas for different categories (i.e., Technology, HR, CPS, Marketing, Professional Services, Legal, Travel etc). The resource will support multiple sourcing projects, client selection criteria, supplier selection processes, contract negotiations, and formal bidding processes. The resource will also develop market insights from cross-client sourcing activities, provide financial analyses, and collaborate with the Sourcing Category function.What are we looking for? • B.E /B.Tech, MBA, CPSM / CPM (desired)
• 5+ years of Sourcing & Category Management experience, out of which approximately 80% should be in Global sourcing

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Category Specific Skill:

Should have good exposure to category planning, stakeholder management, global sourcing, and strong knowledge of the supplier landscape for various sourcing categories. Should have handson experience in RFx processes and analysis of supplier proposals. Strong analytical and presentation skills are a must.

Skill Name Expected proficiency level:

Business Insight P3 - Proficient
Contract planning & development P3 - Proficient
Global strategic sourcing P3 - Proficient
Negotiation management P3 - Proficient
RFx Management P3 - Proficient
Supplier analysis & selection P3 - Proficient

• MS Powerpoint & Excel P4 - Expert Roles and Responsibilities: • Support execution of sourcing projects, including all key steps such as strategy development, supplier negotiation, award recommendations, business case presentations, and supplier contract execution, leveraging an Agile approach to drive efficiency in execution

• Help create industry and supplier research, market intelligence, and financial analyses for the client.

• Support the development of market insights from cross-client sourcing activity and collaborate with various category advisors to develop content that enables knowledge sharing across the organization.

• Pursue and develop client stakeholder relationships within the assigned accounts, support reporting, and team management.

• Help Sourcing Leads with Category Strategy development for specified clients to identify project opportunities that achieve client goals and mature their sourcing function

• Work with the legal and technical teams to facilitate the negotiations of the legal and technical terms in a contract.

• Negotiate and close the contract with advice from legal and technical/ business teams.
  ? Complexity

• Requires identifying and assessing complex problems for area of responsibility. Creates solutions in situations where analysis requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.

• Requires adherence to the strategic direction set by senior management

• Interaction with senior management at a client and/or within Accenture involving matters that may require acceptance of an alternate approach.
  ? Authority

• Power to influence or complete assignments independently and ability to make decisions, as indicated by latitude to devise work products or plans, reliance on instruction, and decisionmaking ability

• Some latitude in decision-making. Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on the new assignments

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Impact or Decision Impact:

• Risk or consequences in the event of failure, as indicated by the range of expected impact, such as within a team or across a team or area of responsibility and level of risk
• Decisions have a significant day-to-day impact on areas of responsibility

? Scope

• Degree of accountability for assigned tasks, our clients, and/or the organization, as indicated by the size of work effort and scale of entity and/or program

BE,BTech,Master of Business Administration

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