Sourcing Specialist

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Within the Europe Procurement Plus organization delivering for Accenture internal client, the Sourcing Specialist will be in charge of sourcing and contract management activities primarily for CEG region. The focus will be on all spend categories.

The role includes the key responsibilities below:

Category Strategy & plan:

• Implement the Global & Regional Category strategy for local projects and initiatives

• Actively participate in category community calls and foster team spirit at local level

Sourcing management:

• Identify with Regional Leads sourcing projects in line with the global/regional category strategies

• Create and maintain local sourcing pipeline too through spend analysis and regular stakeholders meeting

• Support roll-out of global/regional sourcing initiatives within local Leads

• 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-auction 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)

Contract management:

• Negotiate and deploy supplier’s contracts, including best practices metrics & SLA, in collaboration with Legal department

• 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

Buying process:

• Create supplier(s) in purchasing system assessing the right buying channels (catalog, Buy on Contract, Ariba Network etc …)

• Promote usage of negotiated contracts and monitor adoption rate to it

• Maintain preferred suppliers list

Stakeholders management

• Identify key stakeholders for countries in scope

• Manage internal stakeholders’ feedback on category organization & supplier performance

• Proactively organize sessions with internal customers to identify value contribution opportunities

• 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

Key Relationships:

• Regional Category Leads

• Local Business Stakeholders

• GU Procurement Lead

• Local Procurement Sourcing Team