Procurement Practice Specialist with German (all genders)

WHAT WILL YOU DO:

Are you passionate about procurement, the facility services, shaping the modern workplace, and looking for an exciting opportunity? Join our internal procurement team as a Procurement Specialist with German in the Workplace Category and take your career to new heights. Apply now to be a part of our dynamic and innovative company.

This role is critical to ensuring our procurement team can deliver on projects in the ASG region (Austria, Switzerland, Germany) ranging from catering, cleaning and office services to finding the right suppliers and partnering with internal functions to provide best in class employee experience in our many office locations. The Workplace category offers exciting learning opportunities to take ownership of sourcing initiatives and deliver solutions that meet the needs of our internal stakeholders.

As a Procurement Specialist, you will participate in:

Contract Management:

• Negotiate and deploy Accenture contracts to agencies and suppliers, including best practices, metrics, and SLAs, in collaboration with the Legal department.

• Ensure the implementation of Local Country Addendum to global/regional agreements.

• Ensuring compliance throughout the contracting agreements and process aligned with organizational policies.

Stakeholder Management:

• Manage stakeholder relationships and provide an escalation point for sourcing challenges.

• Act as a point of contact and advise stakeholders on procurement best practices and recommend course of action

• Collaborate with multiple departments (Category, Procurement, Legal, Operations) to solve day-to-day challenges and ensure open communication paths.

Sourcing Management:

• Support the rollout of global/regional sourcing initiatives within ASG under the guidance of your Procurement Lead

• Leverage standard sourcing methodology to achieve significant value in sourcing, negotiation, and contracting.

• Provide support in upfront market research and supplier identification

• Prepare recommendation reports for stakeholders to aid in supplier selection

• Follow internal processes end to end and provide insight and updates to the procurement team

Supplier Management:

• Promote greater use of Global or Regional Strategic Providers.

• Manage local supplier relationships in line with Accenture’s Global Category and 360 Value Management strategy.

• Monitor contract commercial terms and performance

• Deploy & Adhere to Global Procurement Process:

• Support the development of global end-to-end procurement processes, templates, and tools when applicable.

• Modify processes to meet unique regional category-specific requirements.

• Review KPIs related to categories (PSL usage, Contract compliance, savings targets) and take appropriate actions.

• Analyze data to provide new insights internally and towards data.

WHAT WE OFFER:

Accenture offers a competitive compensation package. As required by the Slovak law we hereby state, that the legal monthly minimum gross base pay ranges from 2 200€ depending on your professional and personal qualifications in the required areas. We are offering premium language skill bonus for German in amount 250€ on top of your base salary.

Recognition:
• Guaranteed paid overtime or overtime vacation
• Flexible Benefit System - budget to be spent on services of your choice
• Competitive bonus structure
• Refer-a-Friend – get a bonus in the employee referral program
• Loyalty rewards
Flexibility:
• Flexible working arrangements (time & place of work)
Future:
• Wide range of trainings and expert lectures
• Regular performance review and career growth possibilities
• Ongoing career guidance and mentoring (Global Mentoring Program, Lean In)
• Employee share purchase plan
Family & Health:
• 3 extra days off
• Sick leave salary compensation (up to 100%)
• Home-office equipment
• Family oriented benefits (Wedding, Parental and Baby days-off and bonuses)
• Employee assistance services (professional psychological, financial and legal help)
• Multisport card