Procurement Sourcing Consultant with German

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation-led company with 738,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
In Romania, Accenture operates since 2006 and now has more than 4500 people in Bucharest, Timisoara, Iasi, Brasov, Cluj-Napoca and Targu Mures who offer solutions in Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Industry X & Intelligent Operations to our clients from Banking & Insurance, Telecommunications, Automotive, Retails, Energy, FMCG & more.

Basic Qualifications:

Experience in sourcing, contract negotiations and supplier management.

Knowledge of Procurement methodology and sourcing execution with demonstrated success running sourcing exercises

Ability to manage multiple projects and prioritize tasks

Comfortable navigating in a multicultural and broad environment and with all levels of the organization

Stakeholder management, relationship building and communication skills aligned to a proactive customer-focused approach

Forward and solution minded, team player and with the ability to self-manage

Comfortable working in a matrix type organization

Professional Skill Requirements:

Good communication skills - written and verbal including formal presentation skills.

Good analytical and problem-solving skills.

Good multi-tasking skills.

Attention to detail.

Good proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.

Clear communication ability to conform to the varied corporate cultures and organizational structures of our customers.

Motivated self-starter who can consistently deliver good results.

Possess a desire to learn and deliver as a true team player.


Job Qualifications
Language Requirements

German B2+

Execute sourcing activities in respective spend area within defined boundaries

Identify sourcing opportunities, complete category profiles, calculate TCO

Communicate with stakeholders to ensure delivery is aligned to procurement and stakeholder objectives

Provide analysis for necessary sourcing activities to maintain the competitiveness of category contracts

Develop and manage partnership with internal clients (including cross functional collaboration) and relationship with strategic suppliers

Contribute to KPI reporting of supplier performance finding opportunities for data to improve delivery

Conduct review of contract performance along with main stakeholder and spending for categories, manage suppliers performance

Gather monthly performance-related data and prepares executive reports and presentations

Monitor category trends and initiate market research as needed

Perform problem-solving functions to ensure customer satisfaction with Accenture’s services

Ensure communication flows between the relevant functions to deliver business objectives