Procurement & Strategic Sourcing Consultant

The opportunity

By joining our team, you will assist clients in enhancing their supply chain efficiency. Utilizing EY GDS-SC&O's proprietary frameworks, you will help clients to improve the reliability, flexibility, and responsiveness of their supply chain while reducing the total cost. Your responsibilities will involve creating an operating model, re-engineering procurement processes, optimizing working capital, performing rapid assessments, building assets/tools, and coming up with thought leadership.

Your key responsibilities

• Deliver consulting engagements across procurement strategy, operating model design, category management, sourcing optimization, and procurement transformation.
• Collaborate with the extended teams and clients to design and implement effective supply chain transformation projects for diverse industries.
• Perform advanced spend analytics to identify value creation opportunities. Translate procurement and operational data into strategic recommendations to enhance competitiveness, reduce costs, and optimize the supply chain.
• Assess the maturity level of procurement processes and initiate improvements to the current processes and systems/technologies.
• Conduct procurement benchmarking across operating models, organization structures, processes, sourcing outcomes, and supplier rates and develop fact-based recommendations.
• Assess procurement operating models and design future-state target governance frameworks, organizational structures, capability requirements, and sourcing delivery models.
• Support strategic category management through fact-based market intelligence. Analyze supplier markets, industry trends, inflationary pressures, and cost drivers.
• Review and validate data and further build optimization models, analytical reports, dashboards and presentations.
• Support digital procurement and AI-enabled transformation initiatives. Evaluate and implement procurement technologies and automation opportunities.
• Acquire knowledge of new age procurement tools; such as Ariba, COUPA, Ivalua, SAP MM, PP etc. and work on process design/ reengineering/ implementation projects related to the process and/or tool.

Skills and attributes for success

• Experience in strategic procurement, category management (direct and/or indirect spend), procurement excellence, procurement systems
• Effective communication skills and experience in customer-facing role
• Ability to work independently and proactively

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Minimum 5 years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, procurement transformation, category management, or supply chain advisory.
• Knowledge of Procurement Methodologies: Procurement Matrix, Vendor selection and evaluation methods
• Sourcing, offer analysis and benchmarking
• Strategic approach and negotiation skills
• Understanding of legal and contractual requirements
• Expertise in end-to-end procurement process covering one or more of the following areas: spend analytics, E2E process redesign, Source to Contract, Procure to Pay, data integration, etc.
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Entrepreneurial mindset, design thinking and passion for improvement and optimization

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Experience in Data Visualization using Tableau /Power BI / QlikView etc.
• System Knowledge like Ariba, Coupa, SAP modules etc.
• Knowledge of other languages (German, French) will be an additional asset

What we offer

EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network. We work across nine locations – Argentina, Hungary, India, the Philippines, Poland, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom – and with teams from all EY service lines, geographies and sectors, playing a vital role in the delivery of the EY growth strategy. From accountants to coders to advisory consultants, we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business disciplines. In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. We’ll introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

About EY

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