Job Description

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Within the Global Procurement Plus organization delivering for Accenture internal client, the External Talent (ET)* Supply Chain Commercials & Insights Lead will be defining, designing, evolving & innovating on supply chain commercials and external talent data insights.

ET is responsible for building and maintaining strong business relationships with key stakeholders across the organization and this role will support global supplier commercials strategy and monitoring.

In addition, ET is responsible to support global and local strategy, initiatives & implementations. This role will be pivotal to support project management of deployments, ensuring the project leads inputs and updates are completed on a timely basis.

This role requires a self-starter, comfortable with working independently as well as within the team, and with the aptitude to evolve the areas of responsibility.

*ET = All Talent Accenture source, incl. Permanent Recruiting (all levels), Flex/Contractor/Temps, SoW/Services, Gig/Freelancers, Luminaries & HTD/Academy Models.

Supply Chain Commercials:

Define the Supply Chain Commercial model in alignment with global and regional P+ and strategic goals for ET

Design a Supply Chain Commercials model in line with market and global Strategy Leads expectations

Evolve the Supply Chain Commercials model in discussions with internal and external stakeholders.

Co-create the Supply Chain Commercials model with the P+ Delivery team s involvement, bearing in mind practicalities for execution

Collaborate with all ET MU Leads and members

Leverage industry & market information to inform ET Supply Chain Commercials strategy

Lead and participate in innovative initiatives

Reporting Insights:

Maintain established reporting products, such as Excel reports, SharePoint sites, PowerBI or QlikView dashboards, and Data lake tables.

Collaborate with Integrated Planning Team to define a common reporting and analytics strategy for all insights required. These could be related to supplier cost, skills offered, rates negotiated, performance and spend

Design and develop relevant reporting tools for global consumption, ensuring local teams can benefit from usage

Evolve existing products to be best in class, learning from internal and external stakeholders to create tools that take our insights capabilities to the next level

Work across ET strategy team, Delivery team and Operations Data/Analytics team to minimise duplication of effort (tools, reports, data) and align/combine tools where feasible

Ensure all tools and data ET uses and integrates with is aligned to ET strategy, e.g., Workday supplier performance

Work with CIO Corporate Platforms Analytics (CPA) teams to maintain and evolve products or tools they support/develop.

External Talent Initiatives

Support ongoing ET programs and initiatives, follow up on open items and close with relevant teams

Liaise with team project leads to ensure they are tracking to time

Report on project progress under RAG structure. Identify blockers and work with the team lead to resolve or escalate to senior leadership

Identify where projects need support, resources, funds and report on this to operating/steering committee or senior stakeholder leads

Maintain progress documentation and communicate to ET/stakeholders in a visually engaging way

Evolve the PMO structure with the input of the Strategy and Integrated Talent Planning leads

Proactively schedule meetings and engagement opportunities keep on track

Engage with P+ PMO leads to align and evolve methodologies.

Deploy & adhere to global procurement process

Support development of global end-to-end procurement process, templates and tools

Modify local processes, as required, to meet regional or global category specific requirements

Ensure the highest level of compliance with local legislations, regulations and Accenture policies

Team Cohesiveness

Participate actively in ET Regional & Global sessions and foster team spirit at local level

Manage community: Schedule team meetings, encourage synergies and knowledge sharing

Actively participate in ET community calls

Travel:

This role may require travel, globally.

Most of the time, the role is home-based.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Knowledge of the ET industry and commercial models

Advanced in analytics: data, reporting, information tools and capabilities

Strong project and process management and proven planning and PMO capabilities. Knowledge of project management software, e.g., Microsoft Project, could be a bonus

Strong in supplier management as well as stakeholder and relationship management

Knowledge of procurement and category strategy development

Strong capability to independently interact throughout the broader Accenture organization

Strong analytical, presentation, communication, interpersonal and influencing skills

Strong knowledge of procurement tools content and data analysis

Forward thinking, innovative and disruptive mindset

Action oriented and solution minded team player with high degree of self-management

Comfortable working in a multicultural, diverse, matrix type organisation and liaising with all levels

Fluent in spoken and written English

Experience & Qualifications:

Working experience in ET industry, with Procurement & Talent (people) experience

Ability to work with a team to understand requirements and develop strategies to meet those requirements

Exceptional track record of building relationships with stakeholders that have resulted in high customer satisfaction

A bachelor s degree with emphasis on the areas of business, economics, procurement, talent or comparable professional education and a proven multi-year track record in the above areas

You will also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

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