<p>Job Description</p> <p>We Are:</p> <p>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. Visit us at www.accenture.com.</p> <p>You Are:</p> <p>Accenture is seeking a Procurement Category Specialist, Technology - Software to collaborate with external clients to develop sourcing strategies across Technology spend areas including: Software, Cloud, and related IT Professional Services Providers. You will work clients to support each company's business goals while achieving optimal commercial structure, quality and service levels.</p> <p>The Work:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Work collaboratively with global client organizations, practice leadership, market leading technology providers, and client stakeholders to identify Value, ROI, and Savings opportunities within Technology investments across a wide array of leading companies and industries.</p> </li><li> <p>Lead end to end sourcing projects, including all key steps such as strategy development, supplier negotiation, award recommendations, business case presentations and supplier contract execution, leveraging and Agile approach to drive efficiency in execution</p> </li><li> <p>Leverage industry and supplier research, market intelligence (both internal and externally sourced) to perform financial and commercial analyses of IT contracts to advise clients in optimizing their IT Investments aligned to market leading strategies.</p> </li><li> <p>Support development of market insights from cross-client sourcing activity and collaborate with Technology Practice advisors to develop content that enables knowledge sharing across the organization and published though leadership for clients.</p> </li><li> <p>Pursue and develop senior level stakeholder relationships at priority accounts; support account stakeholder relationship plans</p> </li><li> <p>Lead Category Strategy development for specified clients to identify project opportunities that achieve client goals and mature their procurement function</p> </li><li> <p>Mentor sourcing team on technology sourcing best practices with a special emphasis on technology market trends and insights, commercial structure assessment, negotiation strategies and contracting best practice</p> </li><li> <p>Engage with prospective clients during business development pursuits through support of contract assessments, client due diligence calls, and presenting the practice delivery approach and case studies</p> </li></ul> <p>Qualification</p> <p>Here's what you need:</p> <ul> <li> <p>A minimum of 3 years experience in strategic sourcing/category management, procurement advisory/consulting, focused on Software category and exposure to Tier 1 Enterprise OEMs (Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, IBM, Adobe, ServiceNow, Salesforce) or Security, Analytics/Data Management, software as a priority:</p> </li><li> <p>Software: including SaaS, ELAs with major vendors, maintenance renewals, security, and Platform-as-a-Service</p> </li><li> <p>Cloud: including public cloud offerings such as AWS, Google, and Azure</p> </li><li> <p>Services: services related software, application or cloud professional services including systems integration, cloud managed services, and application services, including requirements development and commercial analysis</p> </li></ul> <p>Bonus points if:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Bachelor's degree</p> </li><li> <p>Strong critical thinker, self-starter who can take initiative with high-level direction and deliver client work with minimal supervision</p> </li><li> <p>Highly adaptable and skilled in problem-solving, with the ability to develop and support creative solutions tailored to client-specific technology and cost optimization challenges.</p> </li><li> <p>Passion for continuous self-learning within the technology industry (i.e. cloud, consulting and services, infrastructure, software and telecommunications)</p> </li><li> <p>Proven analytical skills in terms of numeric (e.g. spreadsheets) and text based (e.g. reading terms and conditions) analysis, converting information into tangible recommendations to clients</p> </li><li> <p>Process oriented team leader with the ability to identify process efficiencies and opportunities to apply transformative technology such as Gen AI to improve service delivery.</p> </li></ul> <p>Travel:</p> <ul> <li>This position may require travel up to 50% to multiple customer locations </li></ul> <p>Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New York or Washington as set forth below.</p> <p>We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.</p> <p>Information on benefits is here.</p> <p>Role Location Annual Salary Range</p> <p>California $63,800 to $196,000</p> <p>Colorado $63,800 to $169,300</p> <p>District of Columbia $68,000 to $180,300</p> <p>Illinois $59,100 to $169,300</p> <p>Minnesota $63,800 to $169,300</p> <p>Maryland $59,100 to $156,800</p> <p>New York $59,100 to $196,000</p> <p>Washington $68,000 to $180,300</p> <p>Locations</p>