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The role of the Indirect Sourcing Category Management Procurement Buyer will be to carry out Indirect Sourcing related activities in Malaysia. This would involve administering the entire procurement process from sourcing including assisting in Strategy RFP development to contract management, ensuring that the appropriate legal clauses are adhered to and that Accenture and their suppliers fulfill their contractual obligations

Responsibilities include, as required:

• Develop Sourcing Strategies RFQs
• Working with internal Accenture business stakeholders, and suppliers to determine product and service level specifications.
• Undertake appropriate market research and benchmarking of the supply base for Accenture s requirements
• Tracking on a monthly basis of savings and benefits realized from sourced agreements.
• Proactively participating in further development of procurement policies, processes, systems and tools and the administration of these systems including recommending procurement process improvements
• Extensive and in depth skills and knowledge in contract management and contract review T Cs
• To lead and negotiate high value and complex strategic sourcing initiatives.
• Cross Category experience in order of preference
• 1. Facilities Services Office Construction, Office suppliers, Outsourcing
• 2. Travel hotels, serviced apartments, car rentals
• 3. IT T Software, Hardware, Telco
• 4. Professional Services Finance payroll, relocation, HR recruitment, insurance, Marketing

• More than 5 years indirect procurement related experience and contract management for a wide range of spend categories and the management of suppliers
• Strong administrative, analytical, communication skills
• Proactive and customer focused approach with friendly attitude and determination to ensure excellent customer service and datelines are delivered
• Confident with good influencing skills and ability to demonstrate initiative to prioritise and ensure completion of work in an effective and timely manner
• Ability to manage relationships effectively with all levels within customer supplier organisations
• Ability to work independently in a fast paced, and results driven team environment. Fast turnaround time is expected
• Strong contract negotiator with a working understanding of local commercial law
• Experience in working with e procurement technology would be ideal i.e. Ariba, Radix, BuyNow
• In depth knowledge of local supplier base
• Moderate and or Higher competency in the use of Microsoft Office IT packages Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Business related graduate degree
• Bilingual and fluent in English

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 approximately 791,000 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. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, 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.

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