Sourcing and Procurement Management Consultant

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries – powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. With 505,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Job Brief

Our Clients need to improve their sourcing activities by analyzing the company’s spending and supply partnerships/vendors in order to create new possibilities. Furthermore, they also need to discover the best ways to cut procurement expenses by finding cost-effective deals and suppliers with the proper beneficial contract.

Does it sound like your passion? Then, Accenture may be the perfect place to take the next step in your career journey.

Your Role

As a Sourcing & Procurement Management Consultant, the individual should be able to seamlessly work with Client teams by positioning necessary capabilities in order to deliver the engagement. The successful candidate should have strong consultative, business and communication skills in addition to quantitative ability.

• Understand end-to-end source-to-pay (budgeting, planning, sourcing, procurement, payment)
• Familiar with spend analysis and understand levers impacting procurement costs saving
• Able to identify, track and report key procurement metrics to reduce cost and improve effectiveness
• Able to generate and have experience in implementing efficient sourcing and category management strategies such as: TCO, supplier collaboration, design to cost, risk management, price leverage, organizational design, operating model, global sourcing, digital procurement, etc.
• Able to assess and drive transformational improvements across purchasing and sourcing organizations
• Able to perform cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking
• Familiar with forecasting price and market trends
• Able to develop negotiation strategies for procurement process, as well as contract negotiations to secure profitable deals (time, cost)

Your Experience:

• Degree in supply chain management, logistics or business administration are preferable. Other degrees, such as engineering related, Industrial Technology, Management Information System, and Business & Economic, General Management or other engineering related fields, with Sourcing & Procurement experience are welcomed.
• 4+ years of experience in the same capacity: various sourcing and procurement activities, techniques, transformational improvements, either in industry or consulting company.
• 2+ years of experience with sourcing & vendor management tool, and relevant e-Procurement software (SRM, ARIBA, etc.) will be a great advantage.
• 2+ years of experience working with procurement contracts, and/or contract regulations with the related laws in Indonesia is strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge in Resources industry (utilities, oil & gas, mining, natural, etc.) and/or Product industry (FMCG, industrial goods, automotive, IT/Hi-Tech, etc.).
• Must have strong computer skills and knowledge of common programs such as Microsoft Office and G Suite.

Professional Skill Requirements

• Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment, collaborative working and high-quality customer focused services.
• Possess superior organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects with shifting deadlines.
• Comfortable with figures and in collecting, analyzing and interpreting data.
• Solid judgement with ability to make good decisions and work with numbers.
• Exemplify a strong attention to detail, strong analytical, critical thinking and creative problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, as well as presentation skills.
• Negotiation aptitude.
• Entrepreneurial and result-driven achiever.
• Displays exceptional management skills and leadership skills.

You will also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.