Procurement/Venture & Acquisition Specialist

What is the role about: The candidate will work as a key member of the S&CM Venture & Acquisitions Team on the Accenture Internal Account. Within this position the candidate will be responsible for supporting Venture & Acquisition tasks within the EMEA region with a main focus on UK/I (UK and Ireland) and ASG (Austria, Switzerland and Germany). This position offers opportunities to further develop his/her skills within the Sourcing and Category Management profession
What are the tasks about:

• Provide support to EMEA S&CM with Venture & Acquisition (V&A) activities
• Collaborate effectively with Global V&A team/PMI Leads on new and existing acquisitions
• Understand requirements of the business and work with key contacts from the acquired company providing guidance of policy and compliance
• Identify areas of improvement to process and seek to implement best practice across EMEA.
• Work closely with each country V&A single point of contact to understand local policies and engagement
• Pro-actively evaluate information to be able to “triage” acquisitions supplier base and determine next steps
• Work with the legal teams to support S&CM disposition process
• Collaborate and support S&CM to manage supplier disposition process and manage time bound requirements
• Provision of time bound updates to Master Vendor Listings and to Global V&A Team
• Identify and investigate issues, bringing them to an acceptable resolution for both the business/S&CM and supplier
• Work closely with Contractor Exchange (Cx) to understand their process and requirements, facilitate these discussions with acquired company
• Support documentation administration and data gathering activities in both languages English and German

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