Buyer for Professional services

Job description

Join Accenture and help transform leading organizations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance. Choose Accenture, and make delivering innovative work part of your extraordinary career.

Outsourcing professionals work on projects across a range of business processes, business applications and information technology. They may provide technology services, such as application management, infrastructure management and systems integration, or they may deliver business process outsourcing services, including finance and accounting, procurement and human resources. Depending on the role, Outsourcing professionals may be based at a client's office or in one of Accenture's 50 delivery centers around the world.

We are looking for a Buyer for Professional services. The person selected will work the 50% of the week located at Galicia and 50% at Madrid or Barcelona (the city that best matches to the candidate)

The main activities will be

Cost Reduction Program: identification, definition and implementation of cost reduction initiatives.

Purchase centralization and supplier harmonization with the objective to optimize the process and increase savings.

Data analysis to support the identification of cost reduction, support in the development of workshops and execution of deliverables for selected categories

Sourcing and Procurement: Buyer for Professional services, Transport and Logistic.

Desired profile

Qualifications :

At least 5 years of experience in Procurement as buyer or category manager leading purchasing projects in multinational companies. Experience in manufacturing and/or retail industry.

Degree in Business Administration, Finance or Engineering.

Preferred master in Supply Chain Management

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Supply Chain processes

Cost reduction Program

Project Management

Negotiation

SPEND CATEGORY EXPERTISE

Transport services: Road freight, air freight, parcel and express.

3PL and 4PL services.

Warehousing and distribution services.

Logistics technology platforms and services.

Packaging

Facilities management

Professional services

Please also note that Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity.