<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 Advisory Analyst, Technology to collaborate with external clients to develop sourcing strategies across Technology spend with primary focus on Infrastructure, Cloud, or Telecom categories. You will work clients to support each company's business goals while achieving optimal commercial structure, quality and service levels. In this capacity, you will make an impact by helping procurement organizations expand their involvement and control of non-traditional spend areas.</p> <p>The Work:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Work collaboratively with global client organizations, practice leadership, and market leading technology providers to identify Value, ROI, and Savings opportunities within Technology investments across a wide array of leading companies and industries.</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 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. Lead overall coordination and project management, in addition to market analysis and commercial analysis.</p> </li><li> <p>Support development of market insights from cross-client procurement advisory and sourcing activity and collaborate with Technology Practice advisors to develop content that enables knowledge sharing across the organization and published thought leadership for clients.</p> </li></ul> <p>Qualification</p> <p>Here's what you need:</p> <ul> <li>Minimum of 1 year experience in procurement/sourcing experience. with a focus on market and/or data analysis, financial modeling, or pricing analysis </li></ul> <p>Bonus points if:</p> <ul> <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>Project management capabilities with the ability to prioritize a dynamic portfolio and assist in identifying 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 Hourly Salary Range</p> <p>California $21.97 to $63.03</p> <p>Colorado $21.97 to $54.47</p> <p>District of Columbia $23.37 to $57.98</p> <p>Illinois $20.34 to $54.47</p> <p>Minnesota $21.97 to $54.47</p> <p>Maryland $20.34 to $50.43</p> <p>New York $20.34 to $63.03</p> <p>Washington $23.37 to $57.98</p> <p>Locations</p>