Supply Chain & Engineering (Direct Spend Optimization): Consultant

Direct Materials Spend Optimization

At Accenture, we work across industries to address our client’s most complex challenges, bringing together cutting-edge talent and emerging technologies.Practice: Strategy & Consulting, Supply Chain & Engineering (Direct Spend Optimization)

Level: Analyst / Consultant |

Locations: Delhi, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai

Explore an Exciting Career at Accenture

As part of Supply Chain & Engineering (Direct Spend Optimization), you will help clients improve EBITDA and build more resilient supply chains by transforming Direct Materials, the supplier facing materials, components and externally manufactured inputs that flow directly into products.

The role combines hands on direct category and analytical experience with engineering led cost transformation, strategic sourcing, supplier ecosystem design, digital/ AI enablement, and disciplined value realization. You will support work across the full Direct Materials agenda what to buy, where to buy,



who to buy from, for how much, how and when to buy, and how to sustain value.

What You Will Work On

Direct Materials diagnostics and value assessments: Support spend/category baselining, analyse cost drivers and help size opportunities using spend, BOM, supplier, specification, and operational data.
Should-costing, teardowns & Design-to-Value: Build and refine bottom-up should cost models using BOMs, drawings/ CAD, material and process inputs; support product/component teardowns and competitive benchmarking; identify value through VA/VE, specification optimization, part/ SKU standardization, make vs buy and complexity reduction.
Strategic sourcing and commercial excellence: Support category strategy development, competitive sourcing, fact-based negotiations, contract optimization, commodity intelligence, price risk/hedging and total cost of ownership interventions; incorporate sustainability into over

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