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Procurement Category & Sourcing Manager – Travel Subject Matter Expert
Prague
Job No. 12926284
Full-time - Remote
Job Description
Accenture is seeking a strong individual with deep category & sourcing expertise for the role of Procurement Category & Sourcing Manager – Travel Subject Matter Expert (Fleet experience a nice to have) within the Corporate Professional Services Procurement Category Advisory practice.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work as Travel Subject Matter Advisor to develop and implement client-specific category planning and management for the Travel categories;
- Develop and maintain category-specific knowledge assets and market intelligence that capture expertise / best practices;
- Provide strategic sourcing oversight and category knowledge in support of the Sourcing Project Management function on projects within categories of expertise;
- Infuse market insights into the sourcing process on projects within categories of expertise;
- In collaboration with Sourcing Project Management and/or Procurement Practice Advisory, engage with customers’ senior management team members to provide perspective on current market trends to inform client strategic decisions/sourcing initiatives in line with business goals and objectives;
- Leverage category expertise to support new sales and drive significant client business value;
- Establish, grow, and leverage the network of suppliers, industry practitioners, and procurement professionals within categories of expertise;
- Work collaboratively with suppliers and customer stakeholders to identify continuous cost and performance improvement strategies;
- Provide educational and learning opportunities to internal colleagues and external clients (ex. Webinars, Spend Trends publications) on industry trends, supplier landscape changes, and market intel within categories of expertise;
- Coach and develop sourcing project managers in their professional development and pursuit of building category knowledge within their area of expertise.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor s Degree or equivalent work experience
- Minimum of 7 years of procurement consulting or category-related industry or supplier experience
- Minimum of 3 years of strategic sourcing, category management, and or professional industry experience related to a range of the following subcategories: Corporate Travel including airline alliances individual carriers, Hotels, TMCs, Meetings Events plus Corporate T E card solutions
- Additional knowledge of Fleet and other CPS sub-categories is an advantage but not mandatory
Qualifications:
- Thorough understanding of the supplier landscape and interpretation of market trends within the identified categories listed above.
- Demonstrated success with key clients or stakeholders.
- Ability to develop and frequently refresh category market intelligence and insight tools to support internal sourcing teams and educate external client stakeholders
- Ability to apply insights to customers situation for meaningful impact
- Ability to influence and persuade senior-level client stakeholders
- Ability to adapt to the varied corporate cultures and organizational structures of our customers
- Ability to interface with customers and suppliers via strong written and verbal communication skills
- Existing positive relationships within industries related to the identified categories listed above.
- Strong sourcing knowledge to be able to translate category to sourcing strategy
- Well-developed, solution-oriented selling skills
- Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
- Ability to drive transformational change
- Solid multi-phase project management skills
- Strong ability to effectively manage in a matrix organizational structure working with multiple internal stakeholders
- Ambition to drive the category forward, innovating internally and with ecosystem partners to drive incremental value for client
