Procurement and Strategic Sourcing Senior Consultant

Procurement and Strategic Sourcing Senior Consultant

Let us introduce you the job offer by EY GDS Poland – a member of the global integrated service delivery center network by EY.

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Consultant with an expertise in Procurement and Sourcing to join our team at EY GDS-SC&O. This is a remarkable chance to work with a top-tier company and play a key role in expanding a new service offering.

The opportunity

By joining our team, you will assist clients in enhancing their supply chain efficiency. Utilizing EY GDS-SC&O's proprietary frameworks, you will help clients to improve the reliability, flexibility, and responsiveness of their supply chain while reducing the total cost. Your responsibilities will involve creating an operating model, re-engineering procurement processes, optimizing working capital, performing rapid assessments, building assets/tools, and coming up with thought leadership.

Your key responsibilities

• Collaborate with the extended teams and clients to design and implement effective supply chain transformation projects for diverse industries
• Analyze current spend and allocation model, establish sourcing strategies to enhance competitiveness, reduce costs, and optimize the supply chain.
• Oversee procurement activities, including sourcing events like RFP, RPQ, commercial negotiations, reviewing proposals, and comparing/benchmarking rates.
• Assess the maturity level of procurement processes and initiate improvements to the current processes and systems/technologies
• Design procurement solutions, create Operating models, Governance frameworks and participate/conduct workshops
• Review and validate data and further build optimization models, analytical reports and presentations
• Conduct secondary research/market intelligence to back client deliverables
• Participate actively in building an industry focused practice across EY GDS service lines; Specialization in a specific sector will be an added advantage
• Acquire knowledge of new age procurement and finance tools; such as Ariba, COUPA, Ivalua, SAP MM,PP etc. and work on process design/ reengineering/ implementation projects related to the process and/or tool
• Provide solutions to unstructured problems

Skills and attributes for success

• Experience in strategic procurement, category management (direct and/or indirect spend)
• Effective communication skills and experience in customer facing role
• Ability to work independently and proactive

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Higher Degree within related specialization (Supply Chain, Finance) with min 5 years of relevant business experience
• Knowledge of Procurement Methodologies: Procurement Matrix, Vendor selection and evaluation methods
• Sourcing, offer analysis and benchmarking
• Strategic approach and negotiation skills
• Understanding of legal and contractual requirements
• Expertise in end-to-end procurement process covering one or more of the following areas: spend analytics, E2E process redesign, Source to Contract, Procure to Pay, data integration, etc.
• Ability to prepare and deliver presentations for client and management is an essential part of the role
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Entrepreneurial mindset, design thinking and passion for improvement and optimization
• Knowledge of other languages (German, French) will be an additional asset

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Experience in Data Visualization using Tableau /Power BI / QlikView etc.
• System Knowledge like Ariba, Coupa, SAP modules etc.

What we look for

• Strategic procurement experience supported by very good understanding of Category strategy
• Commercial acumen and enthusiasm to learn new things in this fast-moving environment

What we offer

EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network. We work across ten locations –  Argentina, China, Hungary, India, the Philippines, Poland, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom – and with teams from all EY service lines, geographies and sectors, playing a vital role in the delivery of the EY growth strategy. From accountants to coders to advisory consultants, we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business disciplines. In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. We’ll introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills and insights that will stay with you throughout your career

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next. 
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way. 
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs. 
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs. 

About EY

EY | Building a better working world

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets. 

Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate. 

Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

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