Job Description

Procurement Category Specialist, Technology

Accenture is seeking a Procurement Category Specialist, Technology to collaborate with external clients to develop sourcing strategies across Technology spend areas including: Software, Cloud, Infrastructure, and IT Professional Services and Managed Services Providers. You will work with clients to support each company's business goals while achieving optimal commercial structure, quality and service levels.

The Work

• Work collaboratively with global client organizations, practice leadership, market leading technology providers, and client stakeholders to identify value, ROI, and savings opportunities within Technology investments across a wide array of leading companies and industries.
• Lead end to end sourcing projects, including all key steps such as strategy development, supplier negotiation, award recommendations, business case presentations and supplier contract execution, leveraging an Agile approach to drive efficiency in execution.
• Leverage industry and supplier research, market intelligence (both internal and externally sourced) to perform financial and commercial analyses of IT contracts to advise clients in optimizing their IT investments aligned to market leading strategies.
• Support development of market insights from cross-client sourcing activity and collaborate with Technology Practice advisors to develop content that enables knowledge sharing across the organization and published through leadership for clients.
• Pursue and develop senior level stakeholder relationships at priority accounts; support account stakeholder relationship plans.
• Lead Category Strategy development for specified clients to identify project opportunities that achieve client goals and mature their procurement function.
• Mentor sourcing team on technology sourcing best practices with a special emphasis on technology market trends and insights, commercial structure assessment, negotiation strategies and contracting best practice.
• Engage with prospective clients during business development pursuits through support of contract assessments, client due diligence calls, and presenting the practice delivery approach and case studies.

Here's What You Need

A minimum of 3 years experience in strategic sourcing/category management, procurement advisory/market intelligence, consulting, or related professional industry experience in one or more of the following areas: Software: including SaaS, ELAs with major vendors, maintenance renewals, security, and Platform-as-a-Service; Cloud: including public cloud offerings such as AWS, Google, and Azure; Infrastructure: including servers, end-user computing, print services, storage, and Security, Infrastructure-as-a-Service; Services: services related software, application or cloud professional services including systems integration, cloud managed services, and application services, including requirements development and commercial analysis.

Bonus points if:

• Bachelor's degree
• Strong critical thinker, self-starter who can take initiative with high-level direction and deliver client work with minimal supervision
• Highly adaptable and skilled in problem-solving, with the ability to develop and support creative solutions tailored to client-specific technology and cost optimization challenges.
• Passion for continuous self-learning within the technology industry (i.e. cloud, consulting and services, infrastructure, software and telecommunications)
• Proven analytical skills in terms of numeric (e.g. spreadsheets) and text based (e.g. reading terms and conditions) analysis, converting information into tangible recommendations to clients
• Process oriented team leader with the ability to identify process efficiencies and opportunities to apply transformative technology such as Gen AI to improve service delivery.

Travel: This position may require travel up to 50% to multiple customer locations.

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience.

What We Believe

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