Your career is about what you want to be and who you want to be. It’s about bringing your skills, curiosity and best true self to work.

In Accenture Operations we rethink the way people work and businesses perform by harnessing the power of rich data for decision-making, innovative technology, and advanced machine intelligence.

The Procurement Associate Manager role is responsible for leading and engaging our sourcing to contract (S2C) teams across Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland.  The role needs to enable the best environment for the S2C teams to deliver P+ and market objectives.

Working closely with the market Client Experience Lead (CXL) and Market Unit (MU) CXLs the role will establish a framework and governance to ensure our resource is effectively structured, trained, engaged and supported to provide best in class S2C delivery.  The role will be responsible for leading conversations with wider stakeholders for example local country leads and HR functions to ensure we are operating in line with local best practice, guidelines and expectations.

By being part of our team, you will work from Monday to Friday, 09:00 AM - 18:00 PM in a 90% remote setup.

How you’ll make an impact:

Procurement Delivery:

• Strong knowledge of procurement methodology, sourcing execution, systems and structure;
• Experience leading sourcing and contracting activities across a complex geography like EMEA;
• Uphold Accenture P+ risk management, compliance, and responsible buying policies and best-practices across EMEA;
• Experience in defining and implementing service levels and delivering services within agreed SLA’s.

Team Leadership:

• Manage engagement across the EMEA DL identifying areas for focus, owning and implementing an action plan to deliver tangible improvements on engagement metrics;
• Manage training program for new joiners and teams to ensure people are competent in our ways of working and systems supporting their learning and growth;
• Encourage a sense of belonging through the wider P+ organization to connect the EMEA DL team to development and growth opportunities;
• Manage development pathways, succession planning and performance processes in collaboration with MU CXLs helping the team achieve their best performance.

Stakeholder Management:

• Be a trusted partner for the MU CXLs to ensure the DL team members are delivering in line with expectations and targets;
• Acts as point of contact for resolution and escalation with stakeholders and the client linked to S2C work delivered by the EMEA DLs.

Skills that make your work successful:

• At least 5 years of relevant work experience in a similar role in procurement and project management;

• Proven knowledge of procurement methodology, sourcing execution, systems and structure;

• Excellent stakeholder management, relationship building and communication skills aligned to a proactive customer-focused approach;

• Strong analytical, presentation, communication (written & oral), interpersonal, negotiation and influencing skills;

• Project management mid level – advanced.  Ability to manage multiple projects, adopt a flexible approach and prioritize tasks appropriately;

• Comfortable navigating in a multicultural and broad environment and with all levels of the organization;

• Forward and solution minded, team player and with high degree of self-management;

• Comfortable working in a matrix type organization;

• Must be a good team player and be able to strike the fine balance between supporting and challenging the teams to deliver;

• Experience leading and engaging large teams across several countries including remote / satellite based employees;

• Advanced English speaker.

Employee Benefits – Be well, work well, live well

Be at your physical best & take advantage of additional financial support:

• Flexible medical & dental subscription plan with Regina Maria;

• Nutrition counselling & Wellness subscriptions (7Card, Worldclass, SanoPass, or other providers);

• Benefit Online platform for gift vouchers, transportation passes, vacation, cultural activities and many others;

• Discount on Accenture shares through Employee Shares Purchase Plan;

• Referral bonus, depending on the career level of the job opening;

• Life insurance for you and your loved ones.

Follow your purpose:

• 23 vacation days with our loyalty scheme, granting additional days: 1 extra day after 2 years, another after 5 years, and an additional day every 3 years until reaching a total of 30 vacation days;

• Additional private pension plan, starting the second month of employment;

• Flexible working hours depending on project specifics;

• Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities;

• Communities of interest: sport, volunteering, and employees' resources groups (parents, mental health allies, Pride, disability, expats).

Care for you and your loved ones:

• Psychological and psychotherapy counselling support;

• Premium access to well-being apps (Calm and Wysa);

• Paid maternity or paternity leave;

• Children educational reimbursement;

• Support for adoption & psychological, financial and legal sessions for everyone in your household.

At the heart of change, there is a great human. Bring your ideas, ingenuity and passion and be part of our team!

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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