Delivery Lead Manager

Skill required: Sourcing - Sourcing
Designation: Delivery Lead Manager
Qualifications:Any Graduation
Years of Experience:13 to 18 years
About Accenture
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What would you do? Go beyond processing purchase orders at lower costs to help clients reap savings and value from the billions they spend on the goods and services that run their day-to-day business operations. Sourcing involves identifying and acquiring goods and services needed by an organization. This role includes researching suppliers, negotiating contracts, and managing supplier relationships. It also involves evaluating the quality and cost-effectiveness of products and services. The goal is to ensure the organization obtains the best value while meeting its procurement needs efficiently. Understand when & how to use a request for proposal (price and non-price factors) and RFQ (price only) and how to develop, execute and analyze the results. Collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative information to assess, screen and select suppliers.
What are we looking for? We are looking for experience in the following skills: • Strong critical thinker, self-starter who can take initiative with high-level direction and deliver client work with minimal supervision • Passion for continuous self-learning within the Professional Services • 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 • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience • Minimum of 12+ years of relevant experience in consulting, sourcing/procurement/supply chain management function • Minimum of 6+ years of experience in managing global Customers, and suppliers (NA, EMEA, Australia) • Minimum of 8+ years of strategic sourcing, category management, and/or professional industry experience related to at the following sub-category areas: o Banking Operations o Business Intelligence o Management Consulting o Legal Services o Financial and Insurance Services o Legal o Fleet Management o Travel o HR Services – Relocation, Reward, Talent o Research and Development Bonus Points: • Ability to effectively lead formal strategic sourcing efforts related to Professional Services related categories. • Ability to act independently and can interface with customers and suppliers via strong written and verbal communications skills • Strong ability to effectively manage in a matrix organizational structure working with multiple internal and client stakeholders • Ability to self-manage multiple priorities and operate effectively in a shared service delivery model • Strong analytical, organization/time management and problem-solving skills • Interest in developing solution oriented selling skills to prospective clients • Ability to drive transformational change • Solid multi-phase project management skills • Ability to adapt to the varied corporate cultures and organizational structures of our customers Travel: This position may require travel to customer locations.
Roles and Responsibilities: • Identify cost/productivity improvement opportunities in spending across a wide array of leading companies and industries • Lead sourcing projects, including all key steps such as strategy development, supplier negotiation, award recommendations, business case presentations and supplier contract execution, leveraging and Agile approach to drive efficiency in execution • Provide industry and supplier research, market intelligence and financial analyses to client. • Support development of market insights from cross-client sourcing activity and collaborate with Professional Services Practice advisors to develop content that enables knowledge sharing across the organization. • 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 • Able to lead and Mentor sourcing team on industry best practices with a special emphasis on market trends and insights, commercial structure assessment, negotiation strategies and contracting • 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 • Oversees portfolios of accounts as a coach/mentor and held accountable for accounts’ performance •In this role you are required to identify and assess complex problems for area of responsibility • The person would create solutions in situations in which analysis requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors • Requires adherence to strategic direction set by senior management when establishing near-term goals • Interaction of the individual is with senior management at a client and/or within Accenture, involving matters that may require acceptance of an alternate approach • Some latitude in decision-making in involved • you will act independently to determine methods and procedures on new assignments • Decisions individual at this role makes have a major day to day impact on area of responsibility • The person manages large - medium sized teams and/or work efforts (if in an individual contributor role) at a client or within Accenture • Please note that this role may require you to work in rotational shifts