Procurement Category Specialist, Telecom
Accenture is seeking a Procurement Category Specialist, Telecom to collaborate with external clients to develop sourcing strategies across Technology spend areas including Telecom. You will work clients to support each company’s business goals while achieving optimal commercial structure, quality and service levels.
- 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 and 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 though 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, co
Basic Qualifications
A minimum of 3 years experience in strategic sourcing/category management, procurement advisory/market intelligence, consulting, or related professional industry experience in Telecom and one or more of the following areas:
- Telecommunications: including mobility, network services, WAN, LAN/WLAN, SD WAN, SIP/voice, unified communications, conferencing, and managed network services
- 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
- Application services, including requirements development and commercial analysis
Preferred Qualifications:
- 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.
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. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 05/27/2026.
Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here:
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