Skill required: Procurement management - Procurement Support Designation: Management Level - Associate Director Job Location: Bengaluru Qualifications: Any Graduation Years of Experience: 18 to 28 years About Accenture Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Technology and Operations services, and Accenture Song— all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 699,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us at www.accenture.com What would you do? This position is part of the Global Process Owner Team (GPO) which is responsible for developing, monitoring, and driving change to achieve standardized, compliant and optimized processes and solutions across Source to Pay functions at Procurement Plus. This includes regularly assessing new requirements to drive a prioritized set of projects to improve the process, measurement and related tools in collaboration with delivery and other stakeholder groups. The S2C GPO Lead collaborates with category management, sourcing, shared services, business stakeholders, technology groups and client stakeholders to ensure effective planning and execution of these initiatives relying on best practices, previous practical experience gained being a practitioner as well as good project/ program management skills. It is also expected that the GPO Project Lead would be familiar with responsible buying, sustainability and risk related requirements and support driving these principles into process execution. This position will also oversee other, more junior S2C GPO members to ensure that they successfully drive GPO activities and to help them to learn and develop their skills and capabilities. What are we looking for? Responsibilities: Effectively lead and organize the Source to Contract GPO activities (including Category Management and SRM processes and tools) as a BAU function as well as a contributor to Transformation at Procurement Plus Effectively lead, coach and develop people in the S2C GPO to create a high performing team Lead senior stakeholder influencing, collaboration and communication activities for the S2C GPO team and related functions Effectively apply Sourcing, Contracting, Category Management and SRM best practices to drive changes in processes, metrics and related tools Apply best practice savings methodologies and drive their practical application in the category management, sourcing and contracting process Work collaboratively with stakeholders, CIO and other technology teams to determine and drive changes in the process and tools including but not exclusively to measurement, metrics, targets, thresholds and Any Graduation