Procurement Category Manager (Resourcing UKIA)
Job Title: Procurement Category Manager (Resourcing UKIA)
Location: London
Onsite: 2-3x per week
Career Level: 8
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.
As a Team:
Within the United Kingdom, Ireland and Africa (UKIA) Procurement Plus organization delivering for Accenture internal client, the UKIA External Talent Sourcing & Contracting category lead will be leading sourcing and contract management activities for External Talent in the UK, Ireland and Africa.
The External Talent category is the one of the biggest and most critical areas for Accenture to deliver corporate objectives in the UKIA market unit and this role will play an integral role in ensuring we deliver our labour requirements for our client projects.
Your role includes the key responsibilities below:
Category Strategy & plan:
- Support implementation of the Global & Regional External Talent Category strategy for UKIA local projects and initiatives
- Work with Category Management on work planning and category governance
- Deliver sourcing & contracting projects
- Manage local supplier relationship and performance monitoring in line with Global principals
- Manage local category specific stakeholder relationships (e.g. Client Account Leads, Managing Director’s)
- Manage External Talent Projects in SynOps system
- Ensure compliance process execution
- Work in alignment with global/regional Procurement + and category goals for External Talent
- Actively participate in category community calls and foster team spirit at local level
People management
- Supervise assigned team members (on-shore & near-shore)
Contract management:
- Negotiate and deploy Accenture contracts to suppliers, including best practices metrics & SLA, in collaboration with Legal department
- Lead supplier management programme for suppliers delivering services ensuring KPIs and metrics are achieved
- Ensure implementation Local Country Addendum of global/regional agreements
- Ensure compliance with local legislation and Accenture internal policies
- Manage supplier’s contract signature by both parties
- Store suppliers signed contracts into contracts repository & archiving tools
Reporting:
- Identify opportunities for MI to support the overall delivery of our External Talent objectives
- Maintain the established Monthly reporting for the UKIA External Talent workforce Category
Sourcing management:
- Support roll-out of global/regional sourcing initiatives within the UKIA
- Leverage the standard Sourcing methodology to achieve significant value in sourcing, negotiation and contracting
- Provide support in upfront market research and supplier identification for all sourcing projects
- Draw up technical specifications for local sourcing projects based on stakeholders’ requirements
- Design and develop relevant RFP documents for projects in line with global/regional strategies; when applicable, use e-sourcing & e-auctions tools
- Perform supplier selection and negotiate commercial proposal with suppliers
- Prepare a recommendation report for stakeholders as a decision tool to help them selecting supplier(s)
- Award supplier(s)
Buying process:
- Promote usage of negotiated contracts and monitor adoption rate to it
- Maintain preferred suppliers list
Stakeholders management
- Manage internal stakeholders’ feedback on category organization & supplier performance
- Liaise with multiple departments (Category, Procurement, Legal, Operations) to ensure communication paths remain open
- Provide an escalation point for sourcing challenges
Supplier management
- Promote greater use of Global or Regional Strategic Providers
- Manage local supplier relationships in line with Global Category and 360 Value Mgmt. strategy
- Deploy & adhere to global procurement process
- When applicable, support development of global end to end procurement process, templates and tools
- Modify the process, as required, to meet unique regional category specific requirements
- Ensure the highest level of compliance with local legislations, regulations and Accenture policies with the support of the Procurement Plus Risk team
- Review KPI related to the categories (PSL usage, Contract compliance, …) and take the proper actions
Key Relationships:
- UKIA P+ Lead
- Regional External Talent Workforce Lead
- Contractor Exchange (CX) Team – UK, Ireland, South Africa and Indian based.
- Local Business Stakeholders
- Internal functions (e.g. Legal, Finance, etc.)
Key Skills
- Ability to understand and communicate UKIA requirements (market, process, relationships)
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Comfortable working in a matrix type organisation
- Adaptable and comfortable working with ambiguity
- Proven knowledge of Procurement methodology and sourcing execution
- Strong analytical, presentation, communication (written & oral), interpersonal, negotiation and influencing skills
- Strong relationship management skills and a proactive customer-focused approach
- Forward and solution minded, team player and with high degree of self-management
- Ability to manage multiple projects, adopt a flexible approach and prioritize tasks appropriately
- Comfortable navigating in a multicultural and broad environment and with all levels of the organization
- Fluent in English
- Experience of people management and leading teams
- Experience of Recruitment or Contractor/Freelancer market
What’s in it for you
At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 25 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!
About Accenture
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