Procurement Practice Specialist

Company: Accenture
Location: Washington
Posted on: May 15, 2025

Job Description:

Procurement Practice Team Lead/Consultant - Mid-Level - Full timeAccenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments, and organizations build their digital core, optimize operations, accelerate revenue growth, and enhance citizen services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation-led company with 738,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise, and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions, and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X, and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360 - value, enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships. Visit us at www.accenture.com.You Are:Accenture is seeking a Procurement Category Specialist, Technology - Software to collaborate with external clients to develop sourcing strategies across Technology spend areas including: Software, Cloud, and related IT Professional Services Providers. You will work with clients to support each company's business goals while achieving optimal commercial structure, quality, and service levels.The Work:Work collaboratively with global client organizations, practice leadership, market-leading technology providers, and client stakeholders to identify value, ROI, and savings opportunities within Technology investments across a wide array of leading companies and industries.Lead end-to-end sourcing projects, including all key steps such as strategy development, supplier negotiation, award recommendations, business case presentations, and supplier contract execution, leveraging an Agile approach to drive efficiency in execution.Leverage industry and supplier research, market intelligence (both internal and externally sourced) to perform financial and commercial analyses of IT contracts to advise clients in optimizing their IT investments aligned to market-leading strategies.Support development of market insights from cross-client sourcing activity and collaborate with Technology Practice advisors to develop content that enables knowledge sharing across the organization and published thought leadership for clients.Pursue and develop senior-level stakeholder relationships at priority accounts; support account stakeholder relationship plans.Lead category strategy development for specified clients to identify project opportunities that achieve client goals and mature their procurement function.Mentor sourcing team on technology sourcing best practices with a special emphasis on technology market trends and insights, commercial structure assessment, negotiation strategies, and contracting best practices.Engage with prospective clients during business development pursuits through support of contract assessments, client due diligence calls, and presenting the practice delivery approach and case studies.Discover where this job fits at AccentureProgram & project management careers: Perfect processesBring your big picture thinking and eye for detail to deliver transformative outcomes for programs, projects, and managed services.Learn more about the hiring process at Accenture
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