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You Are:
Accenture is seeking a Procurement Category Associate Manager, Technology to collaborate with external clients to develop sourcing strategies across Technology spend areas including: Cloud, Infrastructure, Software, Technology Managed Service Providers, and Telecom. You will work with clients to support business goals, drive value and achieve optimal commercial structure, quality and service levels.
 
In this capacity, you will have substantial involvement in supporting sales and solution design for prospective new client accounts and in helping procurement organizations expand their involvement and control of non-traditional spend areas.
 
The Work:
Work collaboratively with Accenture Technology Sourcing Advisory Leadership, suppliers, and client stakeholders to identify project pipelines, create category plans and execute continuous value, process and service improvement projects across a wide array of clients and industries.
Lead end to end sourcing projects to drive client value, including all key steps such as strategy development, supplier negotiation, award recommendations, business case presentations and supplier contract execution, leveraging and Agile approach to drive efficiency in execution
Provide industry and supplier research, market intelligence and financial analyses to clients.
Support development of market insights from cross-client sourcing activities and collaborate with Technology Practice advisors to develop content that enables knowledge sharing across the organization.
Pursue and develop senior level stakeholder relationships at priority client 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 practice
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