Associate Sourcing Manager
Accenture
Associate Sourcing Manager
Job Description
The Associate Sourcing Manager will be responsible for the Sourcing, Negotiation, and Contract Management functions that make up a wide range of categories (Professional Services, Marketing, HR, IT, Industrial Operations, and other ancillary categories) specifically for our French speaking client needs. These responsibilities include the following:
- Leads sourcing projects, including all key steps such as strategy development, market research, requirements gathering, due diligence, supplier evaluations/RFx, supplier negotiations, award recommendations, and supplier contract execution.
- Works with senior level stakeholders & works with global teams.
- Communicates frequently and professionally with customer stakeholders regarding the status of the procurement aspect of the project.
- Participates in initiatives aimed at improving productivity and efficiency to support company and account growth.
- Develops and mentors people; works collaboratively.
- Keeps up to date with new processes/technologies; looks for ways to be more innovative.
- Provides timely, accurate, and useful project status and issues reports.
- Works with team members to enhance their business and category knowledge.
- Offers creative solutions to deliver on sourcing projects/negotiations and achieve desired results.
- Ensures consistent delivery of sourcing/negotiation services that meet and exceed savings targets, as well as minimize client risks.
- Establishes and cultivates key client stakeholder relationships across organizations, building trust and support for sourcing/negotiation projects
Qualifications
Here’s what you need
- Fluent French Speaking.
- Bachelor s Degree.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in consulting, sourcing procurement function.
Preferred Skills
- Bachelor s degree.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications especially including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook and Teams.
Professional Skills
- Demonstrated ability to effectively lead formal strategic sourcing efforts.
- Solution oriented communication skills.
- Ability to act independently and can interface with customers and suppliers via strong written and verbal communications skills.
- Ability to build, manage and foster a team oriented environment.
- Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem solving environment.
- Ability to drive transformational change.
- Strong project and time management skills.
- Ability to adapt to the varied corporate cultures and organizational structures of our customers.
- Experience utilizing Rfx tools and developing and presenting outputs.
- English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with English-speaking stakeholders across Canada. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking stakeholders, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement.
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