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**Sourcing & Procurement Senior Manager** Lead strategic cost reduction and procurement transformations. Manage delivery teams for end-to-end sourcing projects, digital capabilities implementation, and data-driven cost reduction programs. Drive operational strategies using digital and emerging technologies. Establish executive-level client relationships and collaborate with strategic partners.
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Full Job Description
Role Title: Sourcing & Procurement Senior Manager
Location: UK
Salary: Competitive salary and package dependent on experience
Career Level: Senior Manager
As a team:
Supply Chain & Engineering is a major functionally-oriented consulting practice: we help our clients reimagine and transform tomorrows supply chains and operations to positively impact business, society, and the planet. We do this through a human-centred and data driven approach that encourages our people and clients to continuously innovate and generate significant, sustainable global impact. Built on the three pillars of customer centricity, Zero-Based mindset, and responsible operations & organizations, this is what we call the Intelligent Supply Chain.
Supply Chain & Operations is seeking to recruit a consultant with strong advisory consulting experience and a history of strategic cost reduction and/or sourcing & procurement projects. The Sourcing & Procurement community is one of the key components of Accentures Supply Chain & Operations service line within Strategy & Consulting that operates across industry groups alongside Supply Chain & Fulfillment, Operational Process Transformation, and Responsible Value Chain.
In our team you will:
Learn at the forefront of the industry, provide actionable insights to the world's top organisations, helping them address priority C-suite issues with strategies and improvements they can execute with speed and at scale
Work in a central role enabling our Sourcing & Procurement capabilities in working with some of the most prominent global companies in the world, responsible for helping the CPO, and their business partners, address some of the critical business issues faced today, including:
Procurement Strategy Definition
Procurement Transformation (Operating Model, Process Design, AI etc.)
Indirect & Direct Materials Spend Optimisation
Contract Management (Compliance, Contract Lifecycle Management, etc.)
Intelligent Procurement (Technology Strategy, Systems Implementation, etc.)
Mergers and Acquisitions (Pre and Post Merger Integration)
Large-scale ERP Transformation (SAP, Oracle, etc.)
AI evaluation and deployment
Procurement managed services / outsourcing
In this role you will:
Be responsible for leading projects and delivery teams in our Sourcing & Procurement group to formulate and execute strategic cost reduction and procurement transformations
Lead end-to-end strategy to implementation of procurements digital and analytics capabilities, including but not limited to SAP Ariba, Oracle, Coupa, Jaggaer, iValua, etc.
Drive supply chain transformations in line with clients business challenges:
- Create capabilities (process/tools/people) in line with the future operating model
- Analyse and model financial data to support large scale cost reduction programmes, utilising functional and cost category benchmarks, process definitions and enterprise value targeting tools
- Help clients improve their ability to drive business outcomes through digital planning, reporting, and analytics
- Help clients harness digital and emerging technology solutions to power their operational strategies (including via RPA, IoT, Blockchain, Analytics, AI)
Refine and optimise the client's ability to organise and analyse financial, operational and external information to create substantial shareholder value
Maintain an understanding of advancements in technology and innovations which are happening across digital, analytics, the supply chain ecosystem and broader marketplace
Drive and develop vendors relationships with our strategic partners
Establish and strengthen client relationships with the CPO, as well as, COO, CFO and Supply Chain executives
Lead business development opportunities and prepare sales proposals
Develop Accentures Supply Chain and Operations assets, tools and PoV to support both sales opportunities and the education of the broader Supply Chain and Operations community
Build and establish relationships with key third parties (e.g. technology providers, governmental bodies) that help to complement and expand Accentures Supply Chain and Operations capabilities and PoV
Play a leading role in the development and education of our UKI Supply Chain and Operations practice.
Whats in it for you
At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!
Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services, we are known for.
Closing Date for Applications: 31/10/2026
Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.
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