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.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in strategic sourcing, contract negotiations, procurement, and supplier management in the Contingent Labor / HR-Recruiting / Professional Services category.
• Proven knowledge of Procurement methodology and sourcing execution with demonstrated success negotiating complex purchasing agreements with suppliers in this with suppliers in Contingent Labor / HR-Recruiting category.
• Good understanding of contingent labor-related legal landscape - employment law, immigration procedures, work visa classifications, and employment arrangements, etc.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, adopt a flexible approach and prioritize tasks appropriately.
• Comfortable navigating and communicating in a multicultural and broad environment and with all levels of the organization.
• Strong stakeholder management, relationship building, and communication skills aligned to a proactive customer-focused approach (experience managing stakeholders in another country/culture preferred)
• Forward and solution minded, team player and with high degree of self-management.
• Comfortable working in a matrix type organization
• Ability to coach/mentor and lead if required; ability to collaborate, advocate a shared vision, and execute with agility.
• Proficient and fluent in English, spoken and written.
• Excellent communication skills - written and verbal including formal presentation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong multi-tasking skills.
• Strong multi-phase project management skills.
• Attention to detail, able to problem solve, analytical.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Adaptable communication ability to conform to the varied corporate cultures and organizational structures of our customers.
• Highly motivated independent self-starter who thrives on challenge and delivering exceptional results.
• Possess a desire to learn and deliver as a true team player.
• Collaborative, and can drive favorable business outcomes in an efficient and agile manner, and who can flex to ever-dynamic business needs.

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