Technology Consulting Supply Chain & Operations Coupa Senior Manager

Title: Technology Consulting Supply Chain & Operations Coupa Senior Manager

Location: Negotiable

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries — powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. With 506,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Key responsibilities may include:

• Participating in Project Management activities (PMO, status calls, operational committee)
• Addressing both strategic and operational Sourcing and Procurement topics
• Supporting team through problem definition, issue identification and work plan development using problem solving principles and past experience
• Supporting process design activities, formulating the specific solutions to address prioritized requirements (Workshops, Agile prototyping)
• Supporting implementation activities for organization, processes and business content
  Supporting Change Management activities to prepare the client for deployment and adoption (Change Program, Operating Model & Organizational alignment, Communications, Trainings)
• Executing Supplier Enablement methodology (Supply Base segmentation, Communications, Connectivity)
• Supporting the collection and analysis of large amounts of data, developing key insights / findings, and proposing solutions to Procure to Pay issues.
• Coordinating Master Data activities with the client and the technical teams

Travel:

For now, all Accenture business travel, international and domestic, is currently restricted to client-essential sales/delivery activity only.
Please note: The safety and well-being of our people continues to be the top priority, and our decisions around travel are informed by government COVID-19 response directives, recommendations from leading health authorities and guidance from a number of infectious disease experts.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in Sourcing and Procurement
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with Coupa

Professional Skills

Demonstrated expertise in any of the following Sourcing and Procurement areas:

• Proven ability and experience in interacting with business leads to define implementation strategies, business requirements and solution design related to procurement processes
• Defines processes to optimize work and avoid re-work
• Resolves problems quickly and effectively using creativity and innovation
• Develops simple and easy to understand frameworks and formats to present information and ideas
• Capable of managing multiple priorities and meet closely-spaced, ambitious timelines
• Organizes and manages work effort of self and others to provide quality service in a productive and cost-effective manner
• Adopts methods and tools that improve personal and team productivity
• Asks for and defines needed support when recognizing own/team's limits
• Team player
• Excellent communication and lead level skills
• Experience with Ariba or Coupa P2P solutions, or equivalent platforms
• Procure-to-Pay Process Transformation, Supplier Relationship Management including Contract Management, and Spend Management Solutions

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Accenture.

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