Improvement Supply Chain Optimization Consultant Manager

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Job Description:

Crowe’s Performance Improvement practice helps clients significantly improve their profitability by:

Solving supply chain, procurement / sourcing, supplier management / development, and operational challenges;

Developing an executable improvement plan and aligning stakeholders;

Quantifying the financial value associated with implementing the improvements; and Partnering with our clients to drive value capture (e.g., we deliver bottom-line results, not PowerPoint presentations).We need more Supply Chain Consulting Managers to manage our strategic sourcing engagements, including leading development of global supply strategies, helping to build category strategies, managing the team’s delivery of competitive sourcing initiatives, assuming ownership for more complex value creation work streams, and driving procurement transformations, logistics, and operational excellence strategies with clients.

Our delivery model is reliant on highly capable managers to oversee the team’s daily work, build and maintain productive relationships with client stakeholders; in addition to leading and managing their own work streams. This is to say that our managers assume direct ownership for solving tough sourcing, logistics, or operational challenges, while supporting other Crowe teammates in parallel. Additionally, to ensure success and exceptional client experience our teams work on site with our clients;

as such, this position requires your ability to travel 95% of the time. To summarize, you need to be confident in your ability to manage complex projects and work streams in high pressure client environments to drive results, and weekly travel cannot be an issue.

Job duties include but are not limited to:

Your primary focus would be leading our strategic sourcing engagements, including:

Managing supply chain assessments which involves:

Conducting executive and front-line leader interviews and completing job observations

Developing a spend cube and performance analytics to shape category events and enable impact tracking (leveraging Power BI)
Leading organizational sourcing and procurement maturity assessments to understand gaps and opportunities and develop improvement plans

Building out detailed category sourcing strategies with clients to shape plans to improve commercial terms and improve alignment with suppliers

Facilitating ideation workshops independently to gain alignment with stakeholders and refine strategies grounded in feedback

Building assessment reports and confidently presenting insights and strategies to executive leaders

Post-assessment, managing implementation of recommendations, which involves:

Managing engagement and client relationships

Leading execution of one (1) to two (2) category strategies through final negotiations and award recommendations, and leading implementation of resulting supplier agreements

Supporting client optimization of sourcing and procurement organizational structures, policies, processes, and management practices;…