Procurement Practice Associate

Skill required: Strategic Sourcing - Sourcing

Designation: Procurement Practice Associate

Qualifications:Any Graduation

Years of Experience:1 to 3 years

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What would you do The Category Management Associate is responsible for supporting the delivery of External Talent Category management services to customer(s) including but not limited to stakeholder management, strategic sourcing, supplier performance management, price management, savings/compliance reporting, continuous improvement and ongoing cost reductions, supply market monitoring, and issue resolution. This employee will be responsible for drafting, updating and training for various unique External Talent Category processes, procedures and related deliverables. In addition, this employee will team with Accenture support functions (MMPR (document repository, Centralized Category Management, Buy Now; External Talent Category metric development, maintenance and reporting; and special project management and reporting to ensure deliverables are completed on time and to the customer's satisfaction.

What are we looking for Qualifications: Any Graduate Skills – Sourcing and Contracting specific to the External Talent category.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• - Interacts with all levels of management including Manager, executive levels. - Work collaboratively with suppliers and stakeholders to lead, communicate and support sourcing and category management procurement-related activities. - Provide analytical support for necessary sourcing activities to maintain the competitiveness of category contracts. - Perform total cost of ownership analyses for the evaluation of continuous cost improvement projects. - Support supply market research for your relevant categories. - Support sales & business development, spend & contract analysis and category planning activities- Assist in the development of customer reports for category specific savings results. - Perform numerous complex problem-solving functions to ensure customer satisfaction with Accenture's services. - Develop good working relationships with customer stakeholders at both the corporate and business unit level