Strategy & Consulting - Global Network - Strategy - Cost & Productivity Reinvention - Manager

Posted:
3/23/2026, 10:06:32 AM

Location(s):
Heredia Province, Costa Rica

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Business & Strategy ⋅ Consulting

Are you an outcome-oriented problem solver? Do you enjoy working on transformation strategies for global clients? Does working in an inclusive and collaborative environment spark your interest?

Then, Accenture Strategy and Consulting is the right place for you to explore limitless possibilities.

As part of the Cost & Productivity Reinvention (C&PR) practice, you will support organizations in transforming cost structures and supply chains to drive measurable EBITDA improvement and sustainable value.

Together, let’s innovate, build competitive advantage, improve business, and societal outcomes, in an ever-changing, ever-challenging world. Help us make supply chains work better, faster, and be more resilient, with the following initiatives:

  • Be a part of the Accenture Cost & Productivity Reinvention (C&PR) practice that has expertise in delivering projects with quantified savings in the indirect and direct categories.
  • Support and lead Cost & Productivity Reinvention (C&PR) engagements, including sourcing for direct, indirect categories, conducting spend analyses, market intelligence, identifying cost reduction or process improvement opportunities, data analytics, so on.
  • Take the lead on all digital sourcing and technology initiatives.
  • Work towards Accenture's Cost & Productivity Reinvention (C&PR) approach for EBITDA improvement including direct material cost transformation, indirect material cost transformation, logistics cost transformation, manufacturing efficiency improvement & cost transformation conduct data analytics across financial data and operational data.
    Deliver cost transformation engagements for clients across industries.
     

Bring your best skills forward to excel in the role:

  • Strong analytics skills driven by the next wave digital and technology initiatives.
  • Ability to solve complex business problems and deliver client delight.
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills.
  • Cross-cultural competence with an ability to thrive in a dynamic environment
  • Proficiency in Excel, Power BI, Alteryx or similar tools.

Drive Client Value Creation:

  • Understand the client’s business, priorities, and leadership agenda to identify cost and productivity opportunities.
  • Co-create with client stakeholders to shape transformation initiatives and innovation agendas.
  • Build strong relationships with client stakeholders and establish credibility as a trusted advisor through industry and functional expertise.
  • Collaborate across Accenture teams to bring the best of Accenture’s capabilities and solutions to the client.

Lead Program Delivery:

  • Lead and deliver C&PR engagements, including direct/indirect spend, EBITDA improvement programs, spend analysis, market intelligence, and cost optimization initiatives.
  • Drive key activities such as opportunity identification, business case development, and roadmap definition.
  • Oversee data analytics across financial and operational datasets (GL, PO, AP) to generate actionable insights.
  • Manage and coach team members on as-is assessments, solution design, and implementation of recommendations.

Grow the business:

  • Support business development through proposal development, solutioning, and client presentations.
  • Help originate opportunities by identifying client needs and aligning them to Accenture offerings.
  • Collaborate with leadership to shape commercial constructs and support deal closure.
  • Align the right teams and capabilities to enable successful delivery and expansion of client engagements.

Develop Thought Leadership and Assets:

  • Contribute to the development of points of view, insights, and industry perspectives that strengthen Accenture’s market positioning.
  • Support the design and build of tools, methodologies, and assets that enhance C&PR capabilities.
  • Promote reuse of assets and best practices across engagements.

About Accenture:

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions — underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network — Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com

About Accenture Strategy & Consulting:

Accenture Strategy shapes our clients’ future, combining deep business insight with the understanding of how technology will impact industry and business models. Our focus on issues such as digital disruption, redefining competitiveness, operating and business models as well as the workforce of the future helps our clients find future value and growth in a digital world. Today, digital is changing the way organizations engage with their employees, business partners, customers and communities. This is our unique differentiator. To bring this global perspective to our clients, Accenture Strategy's services include those provided by our Global Network – a distributed management consulting organization that provides management consulting and strategy expertise across the client lifecycle. Our Global Network teams complement our in-country teams to deliver cutting-edge expertise and measurable value to clients all around the world. 

For more information visit

https://www.accenture.com/us-en/Careers/global-network

At the heart of every great change is a great human.

If you have ideas, ingenuity and a passion for making a difference, come and be a part of our team.
 

Experience:

  • 7–10 years of experience in procurement, sourcing, supply chain, or cost optimization.
  • Proven experience delivering cost reduction and/or EBITDA improvement programs.
  • Demonstrated experience in consulting and/or leading mid-sized teams on transformation engagements.
  • Strong experience in client-facing roles, with the ability to manage stakeholders and drive outcomes.
  • Experience across industries such as Consumer Goods, Industrial, Retail, Chemicals, or related sectors preferred.
  • Solid understanding of spend analysis, sourcing strategies, and supply chain cost levers.
  • Strong presentation, communication, and client relationship management skills
  • Familiarity with analytical tools such as MS Excel, Power BI, Alteryx, or similar tools is desirable.

What’s in it for you?:

  • An opportunity to work on transformative projects with key G2000 clients
  • Potential to Co-create with leaders in strategy, industry experts, enterprise function practitioners and, business intelligence professionals to shape and recommend innovative solutions that leverage emerging technologies.
  • Ability to embed responsible business into everything—from how you service your clients to how you operate as a responsible professional.
  • Personalized training modules to develop your strategy & consulting acumen to grow your skills, industry knowledge and capabilities
  • Opportunity to thrive in a culture that is committed to accelerate equality for all. Engage in boundaryless collaboration across the entire organization.

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.

 Visit us at www.accenture.com 

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