Procurement Practice Analyst

Skill required: Procurement Operations - Procurement Management
Designation: Procurement Practice Analyst
Qualifications:Any Graduation
Years of Experience:3 to 5 years
About Accenture
Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security.Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Technology and Operations services, and Accenture Song— all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 784,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us at www.accenture.com
What would you do? • The Procurement Operations Analyst will be aligned to Accentures fastest growing business segment, Accenture Operations. The Procurement Operations Analyst integrates the various purchasing functions ranging from the front end short term strategic activities of sourcing and auction services to the back end long term activities of TCO driven category management, procurement transaction processing, and procurement • You will be working as a part of Procurement management team which uses a systematic approach for buying all the goods and services needed for a company to stay sustainable They are involved in the identification of need finding and qualifying the suppliers requesting proposals negotiating with suppliers contracting delivery and analyzing results • • Proven ability to work independently and as a team member • • Excellent communication skills written and verbal including formal presentation skills (needs to be able to build relationships over the phone without meeting suppliers customers on a regular basis) • • Good organizational, multi-tasking, and time management skills • • Adaptable communication ability to conform to the varied corporate cultures
What are we looking for? • • Bachelors Degree • • Minimum of 1 years of experience in a strategic sourcing, procurement, and or supply chain function • • Bachelors Degree in Business, Supply Chain, Sourcing, Procurement • • Strong analytical skills spend analysis, savings opportunity assessment • • Proficiency with Microsoft Word and Excel • • Strong analytical and problem solving skills • • Eagerness to contribute in a team oriented environment • • Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem solving environment • • Desire to work in an information systems environment
Roles and Responsibilities: • • Provide daily support to a team lead • • Provide process and transaction support • • Execute the spot buying process for general, low to midlevel spend categories • • Manage specifications, using the clientspecified standards and agreement templates, for the provision of specific goods or services in line with the business needs of the client • • Strive for best value for money options, through execution of a standardized spot buying processes, use of appropriate spot buy tools and negotiations • • Completion of quoting process including supplier selection from preselected suppliers • • Completion of buying process initiated by the user including supplier selection from preselected suppliers • • Accountable for maintaining quality and service standards to support the overall AccentureClient relationship and to deliver continuous improvement • • Understand incoming requests, check quality requirements, follow up with requester where required (by phone, email) to ensure specifications are clear to select the best spot buying options • • Where required, make new supplier proposals and align with Procurement Business Partner on client side • • Identify potential vendors and obtain quotes as needed, per clients policy • • Research and identify potential vendors and recommend alternative qualified vendors to requestors to drive clients savings, relationship leverage, vendor base optimization, and compliance as part of the spot buying or tactical buying process • • Update requisition PO creation process

Any Graduation

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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