Accenture - Spend Analytics Lead

We are looking for Spend Analytics experts with 7+ years of experience who can fulfill the following criteria

Role and Requirements :

Managing Analytics Service Delivery :

- Manage delivery and execution of Procurement analytics services for Accenture clients.

- Conducting spend analytics, contract and compliance analytics, category profiling and opportunity identification, supplemented with actionable insights aimed at assisting clients in achieving tangible business outcomes.

- Managing analytics delivery for procurement (across materials and services including commodities) as applicable

- Leveraging outsourced Procure to Pay processes to build advanced analytics based reporting to provide enhanced business insights to our clients

- Provide subject matter expertise in Sourcing & Procurement for shaping and delivery of the deals

- Leverage strength in Procurement fundamentals and knowledge of tools and technologies to conceptualize relevant analytics that meet client's business needs

Managing Stakeholders :

- Manage relationships with key stakeholders hold discussions on analytical insights, support with deployment strategy, manage delivery issues, plan for new analytics needs

- Collaborate across multiple geographies and functions.

Desired Skills and Experience :

- Professional and Academic Requirements

- MBA/Masters/Engineering degree from Top Tier Institutes

- Good understanding of Source-to-Pay process across different types of spend (Direct / Indirect / Operations / Projects)

- Minimum 7-10 years of relevant experience across Industry, Consulting or Analytics organizations

- Candidates with experience in the CPG (F&B) industry preferred

- Strategic Sourcing & Category Management experience will be an advantage

- Global experience will be an advantage

- Ability to conceptualize business impact focused analytics

- Spend data mining and data preparation knowledge

- Experience and understanding of sourcing and analytical tools such as Zycus / Ariba / Emptoris, SAP MM/SRM, advanced MS Excel, MS Access, Database tools (SQL etc) desired.

- Strong business acumen and financials understanding

- Good team handling experience of having handled a team of 10+ analysts

- Experience in being part of or managing global or geographically dispersed teams is a plus

- Excellent communication skills

- Client management experience would be a plus.