Procurement Associate Manager

External Talent teams support all facets of labour (permanent and contingent) sourcing, recruitment and hiring, and associated services. External Talent group in Procurement work with our supply partners to ensure the best talent can be sourced, contracted, and managed from end-to-end, supporting our HR teams in total talent management solution delivery.

The External Talent Associate Manager is responsible for supporting the delivery of services to stakeholders and category leads including but not limited to strategic sourcing, competitive bids, contract negotiations, supplier performance management, price management, savings/compliance reporting, continuous improvement and ongoing cost reductions, supply market monitoring, and issue resolution.

What you will be doing:

• Expert in Procurement Category Management for sourcing recruitment, hiring and associated services.
• Strategic sourcing and project management and planning for Australia and New Zealand markets. Drive project pipeline and forecast of sourcing activity.
• Conduct annual Category Plan and ensure execution and measure of the yearly action plans to improve the category performance and spend under management.
• Lead sourcing exercises including RFIs and RFPs in the delivery of the category strategy and Australia and New Zealand market unit objectives.
• Design and develop relevant RFP documents for projects in line with Global/Local strategies.
• Lead upfront market research and supplier identification for category projects.
• Become a business partner to our stakeholders to ensure delivery is aligned to procurement and to stakeholder objectives. Strong in executive communication and persuasion.
• Work strategically and collaboratively with suppliers and stakeholders to lead, communicate and execute on sourcing and category management activities.
• Provide analysis for necessary sourcing activities to maintain the competitiveness of category contracts.
• Determine best source for negotiating agreements with suppliers and incorporate best practice metrics for agreements.
• Involve the business for actions related to supplier base optimization, KPI implementation and SRM.
• Drive deep market intelligence into all aspects of the value proposition.
• Build trusted partnerships internally and with our supplier panel to deliver our strategy and market unit objectives.
• Manage KPI reporting of supplier performance and identify data driven opportunities to improve the delivery of our category strategy.
• Perform total cost of ownership analyses for the evaluation of continuous cost improvement projects to enable them to make more insightful and data led decisions.
• Gather monthly performance-related data and prepare executive reports and presentations.
• Support supply market research for your category
• Support sales & business development, spend & contract analysis, and category planning activities.
• Perform numerous complex problem-solving functions to ensure customer satisfaction with Accenture’s services.
• Ensure communication flows between the relevant functions at a local and global level that are involved in delivering the category strategy.
• Develop excellent working relationships with customer stakeholders at both the corporate and business unit level.
• Support P2P processes as required in delivery of procurement services to key category stakeholders.
• Proactively present recommendations for efficiency, innovative ideas, cost optimisation strategies, and new ways of working to the customer/stakeholder in an advisory capacity.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, adopt a flexible approach and prioritize tasks appropriately.
• Comfortable navigating in a multicultural environment across different time zones.