Procurement Advisor Manager (Madrid)

The Iberia Source to Pay Lead  is accountable for all Procurement work delivered through a service delivery operation (global, regional, GU, nearshore and offshore). 

As part of a Europe/global team responsible for the delivery of procurement services to the Accenture Internal Client Account, the Iberia S2P Lead will manage the service delivered in Spain, Portugal, Israel and Andorra.  The Iberia S2P Lead will have direct management of a team of sourcing and category managers, Assisted Buy and Contractors Exchange (CX) team based in Spain and Portugal with additional support provided from a team based in the Bratislava & Prague Delivery Centers.

Key Responsibilities: 

Sourcing & Category Management :

- Oversee a ~$245m portfolio of 3rd party spend across Contractors, IT/Telco, Travel, Facilities, HR, Finance / Legal and Marketing categories

- Oversee the key Source-to-Pay process steps for Sourcing & Category Management  (ex: Strategy, Sourcing, Negotiating, Contracting, …)

- Be involved personally in some strategic negotiation with the sourcing lead in charge of the project

- Work closely with Europe Category Leads to create synergies, apply global suppliers contracts and best practices and bring creative ideas and innovation

- Support the integration of mergers & acquisitions from a Procurement perspective (process adoption, supplier mitigation, contract standardization etc …)

- Manage the "factory" to deliver agreed scope of services while achieving profitability improvements and productive gains

Stakeholders management :

- Establish and cultivate internal relationships to expand the value Source-to-Pay provides

Risk management :

- Champion implementation of internal risk management / mitigation controls to ensure compliance to corporate policies and statutory rules, regulations, and laws

- Answer and manage expectations from auditors (CSR, ISO 27001 …)

Team management :

- Lead a team of nearly 30 people (3 to 5 direct reports)

-  Manage engagement, mentoring, succession planning, annual performance process (priorities, meaningful conversation, reward…) and training requests

-  Manage also recruiting, pyramid, cost-to-serve, and capacity of service delivery staff to optimize balance between cost and delivery targets.      

Transformation :

• Ensure the right organizational model is in place through the source to pay transformation with the right skills and capacity to ensure successful delivery of objectives

• Identify and drive implementation of process improvements and value-add services for Accenture business

• Support implementation our CPO key strategic orientation : create new business, protect revenues, improve margin, optimize our resources, create competitive advantage and mitigate risks

Profile :

• + 15 years Procurement experience ideally completed with one or multiple Category expertise

• Fluent in English. Another European language will be a strong asset

• Negotiation, communication, influencer, driver, team player, business and result oriented are the skills that we are looking for

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