Procurement Practice New Associate

Skill required: Procurement Operations - Procurement Management
Designation: Procurement Practice New Associate
Qualifications:Any Graduation
Years of Experience:0 to 1 years
About Accenture
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What would you do? The team is a large group of professional and creative people, working towards a common goal to provide the best quality service to our manufacturing industry client. Operating in multiple countries, we are used to working across a wide variety of languages, cultures, time zones, and ways of working. We are passionate and easy going, we like to help one another and gather out of work for team or company events. The team is people centered and continuously growing our skills and techniques in procurement, accounts payable finance and related information technologies. We collaborate with our colleagues working for other clients, industries or from other countries to share best practices.
What are we looking for? You are fluent in English · You have a good communication style with a variety of stakeholders, suppliers and team colleagues · You understand about working to and achieving set targets · Organizing your work and your time is a normal way of working for you · Attention to detail, ability to analyze issues and work out solutions · Team respect, understand what adding value means, and easy to work with · Experience in procurement and understanding the procure to pay key steps · You may have worked in ERP and procurement systems such as Ariba, Ivalua, Coupa, SAP · Familiarity with Microsoft and Google office applications such as Outlook, Teams, Google Meet, data sheets and word document processing · Flexibility to work according to the planned schedule
Roles and Responsibilities: You will support a manufacturing industry client by facilitating their purchasing processes for both direct and indirect goods and services categories. · You will work with the client’s employees as colleagues, with suppliers and with your other Accenture colleagues across various procurement and finance teams. · You will work with client via chat, email, system workflow and phone. · Part of your role will be the ongoing identification and support to implement new ideas to generate a more effective and efficient process. · You will be part of the growing impact brought in by various forms of Artificial Intelligence (AI/GenAI) as both client and Accenture embed these in their solutions. · You help them to save a considerable time and energy to buy whatever they might need. You may be involved in the enablement and contact to the client’s suppliers. · Processing purchase requisitions into purchase orders and follow up the purchase order to completion · Running requests for quotation and obtaining optimal supplier offers · Investigate and resolve issues across the procure to pay processes · Validate the compliance of suppliers, contract and requisitions · Creation, modification and overall maintenance of supplier data in the portal and e-procurement tool · Producing periodic operations reports by gathering an checking data, controlling report completeness and quality and publication thereof · Represent the client when in contact with their Suppliers