Data Analyst - Excel Expert

The Sourcing Execution Data Analyst will work as a key member of the Procurement Team within Accenture's Corporate Professional Services (CPS) Practice and its subcategories (such as Human Resources, Finance, Legal services, Fleet, Professional Services, Consulting services, Facilities, Travel services). Within this position the candidate will be responsible for managing data analysis for medium to high complexity sourcing projects across a multitude of clients. With a degree of existing procurement knowledge, the position will offer the successful candidate an opportunity to develop his/her skills within the Sourcing and Category Management profession. Responsibilities will include, but not be limited to RFP documents development & analysis, market assessment, spend analysis, lotting strategy development and creation of scenarios for supplier negotiations. Strong analytical skills and communication skills are essential. Responsibilities:

• Support cost savings projects across multiple CPS categories and/or sub-categories starting with defining project scope with stakeholders through to strategy and opportunity assessment, tender and supplier negotiations and stakeholder recommendation and supplier enablement
• Facilitate documents and forms to complete supplier evaluations and contracting
• Regularly engage with customers’ stakeholders and senior stakeholders to drive and communicate progress and signoff on project milestones
• Proactively eliminate critical path road blocks to help ensure successful delivery of the solution
• Take steps to proactively mitigate project risk as defined/required in project plan. Ensure stakeholders clearly understand what risks will or will not be mitigated
• Manage dependencies, budgets and project timeline/schedule for the data analyst milestones
• Ensure the project stakeholders’ expectations are understood and managed
• Perform total cost of ownership evaluations, perform supply-market research and conduct pricing audits and impact analysis for the pursuit of continuous cost improvements
• Work collaboratively with suppliers and customer stakeholders to identify and execute continuous cost and performance improvement strategies

OPPORTUNITIES:

• Gain exposure to all aspects of CPS sourcing process, starting with the Budgeting process and culminating in Negotiations and Contracting
• Opportunity to support global projects, working with team members and customer stakeholders in multiple regions – EMEA, NA and APAC
• Support multiple challenging projects with aggressive timelines across industries and geographies
• Expand and enhance supplier and customer management skills
• Opportunity to improve and expand the analytical skills, suggest innovative and process improvement solutions.
• Deepen category-expertise and knowledge specific to goods and services and bring added value to sourcing projects and advance career development
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional team members and stakeholders to deliver significant results

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