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Accenture · 13 hours ago

Procurement Category Specialist, Telecom

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid Level

$64K/yr - $196K/yr

3+ years exp

Accenture is seeking a Procurement Category Specialist, Telecom to collaborate with external clients to develop sourcing strategies across Technology spend areas including Telecom. The role involves leading end-to-end sourcing projects, developing market insights, and mentoring sourcing teams on technology sourcing best practices.

Business Information SystemsConstructionConsultingInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyInfrastructureManagement ConsultingOutsourcing

No H1B

Responsibilities

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 and 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 though 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, co

Qualification

Strategic sourcingTelecommunications expertiseCategory managementMarket intelligenceFinancial analysisAnalytical skillsProblem-solvingTeam leadershipContinuous learning

Required

A minimum of 3 years experience in strategic sourcing/category management, procurement advisory/market intelligence, consulting, or related professional industry experience in Telecom and one or more of the following areas:

Telecommunications: including mobility, network services, WAN, LAN/WLAN, SD WAN, SIP/voice, unified communications, conferencing, and managed network services

Software: including SaaS, ELAs with major vendors, maintenance renewals, security, and Platform-as-a-Service

Cloud: including public cloud offerings such as AWS, Google, and Azure

Infrastructure: including servers, end-user computing, print services, storage, and security

Infrastructure-as-a-Service; Services: services related software, application or cloud professional services including systems integration, cloud managed services

Application services, including requirements development and commercial analysis

Preferred

Bachelor's degree

Strong critical thinker, self-starter who can take initiative with high-level direction and deliver client work with minimal supervision

Highly adaptable and skilled in problem-solving, with the ability to develop and support creative solutions tailored to client-specific technology and cost optimization challenges

Passion for continuous self-learning within the technology industry (i.e. cloud, consulting and services, infrastructure, software and telecommunications)

Proven analytical skills in terms of numeric (e.g. spreadsheets) and text based (e.g. reading terms and conditions) analysis, converting information into tangible recommendations to clients

Process oriented team leader with the ability to identify process efficiencies and opportunities to apply transformative technology such as Gen AI to improve service delivery