Description
& SummaryA career within Operations and Procurement Advisory at PwC will give you the opportunity to work closely with strategic thinkers and problem solvers in a challenging environment. You’ll support client engagements focused on optimizing operational efficiency and effectiveness—ranging from procurement and sourcing transformations to complex operations planning and readiness decision-making in highly constrained, mission-critical environments. Clients engage us to enhance procurement and sourcing by analyzing their business, spending, and supplier markets, and by integrating process, data, reporting, and system-enabled improvements to identify opportunities that support their goals and drive performance.
Clients engage us to enhance their businesses by identifying opportunities that support their goals. In addition, our clients also need our services to discover the best ways to reduce costs and improve operations through the integration of strategies with opportunities beyond price reductions. You’ll work with clients across sectors – from government and public sector organizations to private sector organizations in different parts of the economy in these critically timely challenges.
At the same time, you’ll continually refine and develop your own capabilities through practical engagement delivery, continuous technical upskilling and formal training, and the professional connections you make. It is expected that the role includes up to 80% of travel to client sites.
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Opportunity:
As a Senior Associate,you’llwork as a key member of a project team to solve complex business issues from strategy through to execution for our clients across North America.
These client projects will range from assessments and pilots toimplementations of identified improvement opportunities,on teams with various sizes and composition. You’ll work alongside Junior, Senior or Executive client teams to conduct detailed analyses, draw insights, strategize, develop and communicate recommendations, and implement these recommendations to create lasting value.
Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Procurement & Operations Analytics
Support procurement operating model, strategy development, and strategy implementation, including sustainable sourcing.
Structure operational and planning challenges as analytical problems under uncertainty; translate readiness and planning questions into quantitative outputs that inform decision-making.
Conduct and interpret client data analyses (e.g., spend analysis, capacity/throughput/bottleneck analysis, scenario analysis) withappropriate rigorand clear assumptions.
Understand and support end-to-end source-to-pay (budgeting, planning, sourcing, procurement, payment).
Lead and support cost and scenario analysis, price forecasting, and market trends;identifylevers leading to cost savings.
Contribute to business process redesign using analytical tools and AI, and support documentation of business rules, data requirements, process flows, and reporting logic.
Develop andmaintainanalytics code, models, and supporting documentation; work with data from multiple systems and sources.
Develop negotiation strategies and support contract negotiations to secure profitable deals (time, cost).
Engagement Delivery
Support the delivery of engagements by conducting detailed analyses; preparing client and executive presentations and materials; and supporting procurement documents asrequired.
Work collaboratively within project teams to deliver high-quality outputs; work effectively with both business and technical stakeholders.
Support preparation of insights for client discussions, clearly communicating results to non-technical audiences.
Proactively flag risks and issues to senior team members; support management of engagement risk and project economics, including planning and budgeting.
Support/lead mixed consulting and client teams of 2–3 frominitialassessment through implementation and continuous improvement (team size and leadership expectations may vary by engagement).
Business Development
Develop andmaintaintrusted relationships with decision makers at key clients.
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