Accenture is seeking a collaborative and results-oriented Procurement Category Manager, to collaborate with external clients to develop and execute sourcing strategies related to Logistics & Supply Chain specific spend areas (i.e., Domestic / International Transportation and Supply Chain Services). You will work with Fortune 500 clients to support each company’s business goals while achieving optimal pricing, quality and service levels.  In this capacity, you will have substantial involvement in supporting sales and solution design and in helping procurement organizations expand their involvement and control of non-traditional spend areas.

The Work:

Here’s What You Need:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in consulting or industry in a sourcing/procurement/supply chain management function
• Minimum of 6 years of experience related to multiple sub-categories within the logistics spend areas, including:  Truckload, Less-than-Truckload/Groupage, Global Ocean, Global Air, Small Parcel, 3PL/warehousing, 4PL, Rail

Preferred Skills:

• Ability to act independently and can interface with customers and suppliers via strong written and verbal communications skills
• Strong ability to effectively manage in a matrix organizational structure working with multiple internal clients
• Strong analytical, organization/time management and problem-solving skills
• Well-developed, solution-oriented selling skills
• Ability to drive transformational change
• Solid multi-phase project management skills
• Ability to adapt to the varied corporate cultures and organizational structures of our customers
• Formal training and/or experience in strategic sourcing, negotiations
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications especially PowerPoint and Excel
• Exceptional track record of building relationships with stakeholders or customers that have resulted in high customer satisfaction

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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 750,000 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 and leadership in cloud, data and AI 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 Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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