Supply Chain and Operations Strategy Manager

Created at: May 06, 2025 00:00

Company: Accenture

Location: Bentonville, AR, 72712

Job Description:

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 approximately 742,000 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 and leadership in cloud, data and AI 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 Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent 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.
In Strategy & Consulting we work with C-suite executives, leaders and boards of the world’s leading organizations, helping them reinvent every part of their enterprise to drive greater growth, enhance competitiveness, implement operational improvements, reduce cost, deliver sustainable 360° stakeholder value, and set a new performance frontier for themselves and the industry in which they operate. Our deep industry and functional expertise are supported by proprietary assets and solutions that help organizations transform faster and become more resilient. Underpinned by technology, data, analytics, AI, change management, talent and sustainability capabilities, our Strategy & Consulting services help architect and accelerate all aspects of an organization’s total enterprise reinvention.
We are:
Our Sourcing & Procurement Strategy practice is redefining the future of the Procurement function for our clients across industries. We enable COOs, Chief Procurement Officers and their leadership teams to navigate complex business challenges and drive profitability, resiliency and sustainability from their 3
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Party relationships. Our mission is to support client’s procurement transformation journey to deliver 360° value for the enterprise through design and implementation of future cost strategies, operating models and leading-edge digital and AI capabilities. We believe Procurement role is fundamentally evolving towards an AI-first function and is poised to stay a competitive differentiator for companies in the midst of managing uncertainty.
As Strategist, we advise and shape Procurement strategies, transformation plans, operating models and capabilities development for our clients. We bring the power of One [name of company], working across technology, data & AI and Operations to accelerate deployment of strategic capabilities and achievement of tangible value for our clients.
You are:
We’re looking for advisors with a practical “hands on” entrepreneurial mindset — people who see challenges as opportunities to find new solutions, especially through the smart use of AI.
You have a strong passion for Procurement, but you also bring a broad business and supply chain perspective, allowing you to connect procurement strategies to larger enterprise goals.
Strategic thinker: you design transformation roadmaps that go beyond incremental improvements and push the boundaries of what’s possible.
You aspire to grow as a trusted advisor, combining deep expertise with curiosity, creativity, and a drive for impact.
You have your own point of view about the future of business and aren’t afraid to challenge the status quo when you see a better path forward.
With a global mindset, you are comfortable working across different cultures, industries, and client environments.
The work:
As strategic advisors, we work directly with business leaders to:
Define their Procurement vision, transformation roadmaps and business case
Design and build next-generation operating models and capabilities
Embed digital, data, and AI solutions at the core of their procurement functions
Accelerate tangible value creation by leading cost & profitability programs across direct, Capex and Indirect spend and interventions across a wide range of levers including strategic sourcing, value engineering and business transformation
Help address priority enterprise-wide issues with Supply Chain & Procurement strategies that can be executed with speed and at scale.
As a member of our Sourcing & Procurement Strategy practice you will:
Manage small to medium-sized teams with diverse backgrounds, skills, and knowledge.
Effectively mentor and coach others, collaborating with internal and external parties.
Support client sales origination, business development, and external thought leadership.
Drive a positive impact in the communities where we work and live with volunteerism initiatives.
Travel, as needed, up to 80%


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