Supply Chain and Operations Strategy Senior Manager

Company: Accenture
Location: Chicago
Posted on: May 12, 2025

Job Description:

Supply Chain and Operations Strategy Senior ManagerAccenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments, and organizations build their digital core, optimize 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 driving 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. Our broad range of services, solutions, and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X, and Song enable us to deliver tangible outcomes. We measure our success by the 360 - value we create for our clients, colleagues, shareholders, partners, and communities. Visit us at .In Strategy & Consulting, we work with C-suite executives, leaders, and boards of the world's leading organizations, helping them reinvent their enterprises to drive growth, enhance competitiveness, implement operational improvements, reduce costs, and deliver sustainable stakeholder value. Our expertise is supported by proprietary assets and solutions that accelerate transformation and resilience, underpinned by technology, data, analytics, AI, change management, talent, and sustainability capabilities.We are:Our Sourcing & Procurement Strategy practice is redefining the procurement function for our clients across industries. We enable COOs, Chief Procurement Officers, and their teams to navigate complex challenges and drive profitability, resilience, and sustainability through their 3rd Party relationships. Our mission is to support procurement transformation to deliver enterprise-wide value via cost strategies, operating models, and digital and AI capabilities. We believe procurement is evolving towards an AI-first function, remaining a key differentiator in managing uncertainty.As a Strategist, you will advise on procurement strategies, transformation plans, operating models, and capabilities development, leveraging our integrated approach across technology, data & AI, and operations to accelerate value creation.You are:

• Entrepreneurial, with a practical mindset, eager to find innovative solutions through AI.
• Passionate about procurement, with a broad business and supply chain perspective that links procurement to enterprise goals.
• A strategic thinker, capable of designing transformative roadmaps beyond incremental improvements.
• Curious, creative, and driven to become a trusted advisor, with a strong point of view on the future of business.The work:As a strategic advisor, you will work directly with business leaders to:
  • Define procurement vision, transformation roadmaps, and business cases.
  • Design and implement next-generation operating models and capabilities.
  • Embed digital, data, and AI solutions at the core of procurement functions.
  • Drive value through cost and profitability programs across various spend categories, utilizing strategic sourcing, value engineering, and transformation levers.
  • Address enterprise-wide issues with scalable supply chain and procurement strategies.As part of our team, you will:
    • Manage small to medium-sized diverse teams.
    • Mentor and coach colleagues and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
    • Support sales, business development, and thought leadership initiatives.
    • Participate in volunteerism and community impact efforts.
    • Travel up to 80% as needed.Location: Multiple - Senior Level - Full-timeDiscover where this job fits at AccentureStrategy: Change the future with a strategy careerLeverage strategic insights to help clients reinvent and stay ahead of change.Learn more about the hiring process at Accenture
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