Sourcing and Procurement Consultant Job

If you join Accenture you can make great ideas happen for some of the world's most dynamic companies. With broad global resources and deep technical know-how, we collaborate with clients to cultivate ideas and deliver results. Choose a career at Accenture and enjoy an innovative environment where challenging and interesting work is part of daily life.

Accenture's Consulting workforce is involved in business consulting, process design work and the application of technologies to business. A career in Consulting is varied and stimulating because each project presents a new challenge and will give you exposure to new clients, business issues, technologies and people. We need people who are able to challenge conventional thought, offer unique perspectives and conceive more innovative solutions for our clients.

Working as a consultant with Accenture, you will build core business, technology and industry expertise helping to deliver world-class business and technology solutions that enable clients to become high performance businesses. Consultants must be professionals who have an interest in how business processes work and interact. In addition, consultants need to apply their skills in project and programme management while exhibiting leadership in process re-engineering and implementation of process, technology, and organisational change. Finally, consultants also need to have a working knowledge of the industry and/or the functional areas they serve.

The Consulting workforce is made up of three groups: Management Consulting, Systems Integration Consulting and Technology Consulting. This consulting group structure provides outstanding opportunities to develop highly specialised skills that will help you advance your career.

Job Description

Management Consulting professionals focus on strategy and take responsibility for organisational change and business transformation. Supply Chain Management professionals help clients develop strategies and operating models that integrate planning, procurement, product design, manufacturing and fulfillment functions within an organisation, as well as connect suppliers and customers across the extended supply chain.

Sourcing & Procurement professionals design and implement strategies that transform buying and selling with differentiating sourcing and procurement strategies, processes, technologies and organisations.

Key responsibilities may include:
· Driving, supervising and reviewing technology diagnosis and assessment activities
· Identifying opportunities for technology-related improvement based on benchmark data and doing high-level cost benefit analysis
· Developing a high level design which supports a robust technology solution, taking into account user and technical requirements
· Driving technology architecture and infrastructure design activities
· Reviewing and supervising design components
· Developing design and transition approaches
· Driving and supervising technology build, test and deployment activities
· Troubleshooting, diagnosing, and supporting application development

· Include experience in Supply Chain Assessment and Strategy, Business Model Development, Business Performance Management, Transformational Outsourcing, Merger and Acquisition Integration, Supply Chain Planning Strategy, Supply/Demand Planning Systems (e.g., SAP – APO, i2, Manugistics), Collaboration, Inventory Management, Order Fulfillment Planning, Production Planning and Scheduling, Master Scheduling, Service Parts Planning, Operating Model Development, Sales and Operations Planning
· Ability to meet travel requirements, when applicable
· [Include years of experience]
· [Include required degree/education]

Professional Skill Requirements
· Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment
· Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
· Desire to work in an information systems environment
· Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

[Optional general training message:]
All of our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You'll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialisation. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programmes at every level to help you acquire and build specialised 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.

Job: Supply Chain Management
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Location: Canada-Ontario - Toronto
Organisation: Consulting
Schedule: Full-time

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