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Procurement Category Specialist, Telecom

Accenture is seeking a Procurement Category Specialist, Telecom to collaborate with external clients to develop sourcing strategies across Technology spend areas including Telecom. You will work with clients to support each company's business goals while achieving optimal commercial structure, quality, and service levels.

The Work :

• Work collaboratively with global client organizations, practice leadership, market leading technology providers, and client stakeholders to identify Value, ROI, and Savings opportunities within Technology investments across a wide array of leading companies and industries.
• Lead end to end sourcing projects, including all key steps such as strategy development, supplier negotiation, award recommendations, business case presentations, and supplier contract execution, leveraging an Agile approach to drive efficiency in execution.
• Leverage industry and supplier research, market intelligence (both internal and externally sourced) to perform financial and commercial analyses of IT contracts to advise clients in optimizing their IT Investments aligned to market leading strategies.
• Support development of market insights from cross-client sourcing activity and collaborate with Technology Practice advisors to develop content that enables knowledge sharing across the organization and published through leadership for clients.
• Pursue and develop senior level stakeholder relationships at priority 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.

Here's what you need :

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Travel :

This position may require travel up to 50% to multiple customer locations.

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