Procurement Category Specialist

Your career is about what you want to be and who you want to be. It’s about bringing your skills, curiosity and best true self to work.

In Accenture Operations we rethink the way people work and businesses perform by harnessing the power of rich data for decision-making, innovative technology, and advanced machine intelligence.

By being part of our team, you will work from Monday to Friday, 09:00-18:00 in a 90% remote setup.

Your role includes the key responsibilities below:

• Manage local category specific stakeholder relationships (e.g. Client Account Leads, Managing Director’s);
• Support Business stakeholders education on Procurement process and legal constraints;
• Build and share category analysis with key business stakeholders;
• Work closely with Employment Law Team to ensure compliance with local laws.

Your role includes the key responsibilities below:

• Support the creation of the region category strategy to continuously drive improvement and value for the Accenture business;
• Implementation of the Global & Regional External Talent Category strategy for local projects and initiatives;
• Work with FBL Delivery Lead on work planning and category governance;
• Deliver sourcing & contracting projects;
• Manage local supplier relationships and performance monitoring in line with Global principles;
• Ensure suppliers understanding and compliance with Accenture policies and processes;
• Manage External Talent Projects in SynOps system;
• Ensure compliance process execution;
• Work in alignment with global/regional Procurement + and category goals for External Talent;
• Support the creation of local documentation to streamline the process and build a knowledge database;
• Benchmark External Talent Practices.

Contract management:

• Negotiate and deploy Accenture contracts to suppliers, including best practices metrics & SLA, in collaboration with Legal department;
• Lead supplier management program for suppliers delivering services ensuring KPIs and metrics are achieved;
• Ensure implementation Local Country Addendum of global/regional agreements;
• Ensure compliance with local legislation and Accenture internal policies;
• Manage supplier’s contract signature by both parties;
• Store suppliers signed contracts into contracts repository & archiving tools.

Reporting:

• Identify opportunities to support the overall delivery of our External Talent objectives;
• Maintain the established Monthly reporting for the External Talent workforce Category;
• Work on ad hoc reporting and analysis for the Category

Sourcing management:

• Support roll-out of global/regional sourcing initiatives within the FBL;
• Leverage the standard Sourcing methodology to achieve significant value in sourcing, negotiation and contracting;
• Provide support in upfront market research and supplier identification for all sourcing projects;
• Draw up technical specifications for local sourcing projects based on stakeholders’ requirements;
• Design and develop relevant RFP documents for projects in line with global/regional strategies; when applicable, use e-sourcing & e-auctions tools;
• Perform supplier selection and negotiate commercial proposal with suppliers.

Buying process:

• Promote usage of negotiated contracts and monitor adoption rate to it;
• Maintain preferred suppliers list.

Skills that make your work successful:

• Fluent in French and English advanced level;
• Between 5 and 10 years relevant work experience in a similar role or in Human Resources role (HR Partner, Recruiting) for the French or Belgian market;
• Ability to understand and communicate FBL requirements market, process, relationships, with a strong focus on Employment Law requirements;
• Strong stakeholder management skills;
• Knowledge of Procurement methodology and sourcing execution;
• Strong analytical, presentation, communication written oral , interpersonal, negotiation and influencing skills;
• Forward and solution minded, team player and with high degree of self management;
• Ability to manage multiple projects, adopt a flexible approach and prioritize tasks appropriately;
• Comfortable navigating in a multicultural and broad environment and with all levels of the organization;
• Experience of Recruitment or Contractor Freelancer market.

Employee Benefits – Be well, work well, live well

Be at your physical best & take advantage of additional financial support:

• Flexible medical & dental subscription plan with Regina Maria;
• Nutrition counselling & Wellness subscriptions (7Card, Worldclass, SanoPass, or other providers);
• Benefit Online platform for gift vouchers, transportation passes, vacation, cultural activities and many others;
• Discount on Accenture shares through Employee Shares Purchase Plan;
• Referral bonus, depending on the career level of the job opening;
• Life insurance for you and your loved ones.

Follow your purpose:

• 23 vacation days with our loyalty scheme, granting additional days: 1 extra day after 2 years, another after 5 years, and an additional day every 3 years until reaching a total of 30 vacation days;
• Additional private pension plan, starting the second month of employment;
• Flexible working hours depending on project specifics;
• Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities;
• Communities of interest: sport, volunteering, and employees' resources groups (parents, mental health allies, Pride, disability, expats).

Care for you and your loved ones:

• Premium access to well-being apps (Calm and Wysa);
• Paid maternity or paternity leave;
• Children educational reimbursement;
• Support for adoption & psychological, financial and legal sessions for everyone in your household.

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