Skill required: Sourcing - Sourcing

Designation: Procurement Practice Senior Analyst

Qualifications:BBA/Master of Business Administration

Years of Experience:5 to 8 years

What would you do?
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?
Required

- 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
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 - Exper
? 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.

Roles and Responsibilities:

- This role includes some or all the following key responsibilities. Please review these in conjunction with
career-level guidelines to understand the expectations for this role.
? Sourcing Execution

- 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 recent assignments
? 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

Qualification BBA,Master of Business Administration

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