Organization:   Accenture BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) Services

Title:    Procurement/Sourcing Specialist

Location:      Pittsburgh, PA  (MUST LIVE & WORK IN USA)

Accenture's Services workforce is a dedicated team of people who work on outsourcing engagements.   These are long-term partnerships with clients for whom we manage and provide increasingly specialized business operations, such as finance and accounting, IT, applications development and maintenance, help desk services, and HR.  We not only maintain key business functions for clients, we constantly seek to improve them to help our clients move ahead of the competition.

Our BPO resources can expect to:

Incorporate skills which support the client

Receive ongoing training to build and extend professional, technical and management skills in all areas

Enjoy our comprehensive and generous benefits package

The Procurement Specialist handles customer-focused delivery and client management responsibilities.  Delivers a client engagement on time and within budget and is focused on the rapid transformation of client organizations into world-class managers of spend through innovative, high quality, global spend management solutions that create sustainable bottom line results.

Key responsibilities:

Assists with delivery of customer engagements per statement of work, on time and within budget

Manages expectations from one or more customers in alignment with the contract language

Contributes to overall client satisfaction through delivery of multiple and complex spend management initiatives and prompt resolution of customer issues

Acquires knowledge of sourcing software and solutions as required by customer engagements

Provides support to the sales process with the existing customer

Creates and delivers effective presentations and other forms of written and verbal communication to different levels within customer organization

Travel Requirement:

Ability to travel up to or more than 80% of the time.

Basic Qualifications:

•          Minimum 3 years of experience in a professional services firm or industry

•          Bachelor's degree

Preferred Qualifications:

•          Previous consulting experience

•          Industry and/or commodity experience

Professional Skill Requirements:

•          Proven ability to work independently and as a team member

•          Good written, oral and interpersonal skills

•          Good organizational, multi-tasking and time management skills

•          Project management experience

•          Ability to apply analytical and problem solving skills to a customer challenge

Please submit resume to: barbara.peters@accenture.com

Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require now or in the future sponsorship by the employer for a visa.

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer.