Manager, Operations and Procurement

A career within Operations and Procurement consulting services will provide you with the opportunity to work with our clients to improve value within their businesses and to their communities through their procurement practices and safeguard their sources of supply. These are particularly critical in our economic environment today. Our clients are seeking our services to help improve their procurement and sourcing activities by understanding their business, analyzing their spending, understanding their supplier markets, integrating technology systems to identify opportunities for supporting their business goals.

In addition, our clients also need our services to discover the best ways to reduce costs for procurement of goods and services through the integration of strategies that integrate 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.

As a Manager, Operations and Procurement, unlock your potential and embrace the chance to drive meaningful outcomes that’ll elevate your career. Your role will include, but isn’t limited to:

• Understanding and experience of procurement and sourcing, covering sourcing to contract, procurement to pay, contract management and supplier management
• Understand end-to-end source-to-pay (budgeting, planning, sourcing, procurement, payment)
• Familiar with spend analysis and understanding levers impacting procurement costs saving
• Able to identify, track and report key procurement metrics to reduce cost and improve effectiveness
• Able to generate and have experience in implementing efficient sourcing and category management strategies such as: TCO, supplier collaboration, design to cost, risk management, price leverage, organizational design, operating model, global sourcing, digital procurement, etc.
• Able to assess and drive transformational improvements across procurement and sourcing organizations
• Able to perform cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking
• Familiar with forecasting price and market trends
• Able to develop negotiation strategies for procurement process, as well as contract negotiations to secure profitable deals (time, cost)
• Analyze client’s need for the procurement and sourcing to identify business problems leading to developing solution resulting cost improvements, and driving operational efficiencies within the procurement function
• Conduct workshops and training sessions to promote best practices in procurement

• Establish credibility with our clients by demonstrating expertise and knowledge of various aspects of procurement transformation
• Lead the delivery of large engagements, leading a team of 2-5 from initial assessment and business case to full implementation and value creation. This includes the management of engagement risk and project economics including planning and budgeting
• Act as a subject matter expert on client projects.

• Develop and maintain trusted relationships with decision makers at key clients;
• Contribute to pursuits and proposal development including architecting innovative approaches and methodologies;
• Collaborate with PwC colleagues across other lines of services globally to identify best suitable solutions to service our clients’ needs.

• Mentor and guide team members in best practices for process design and implementation
• Develop and deliver training and share knowledge from across the global network with our team;
• Actively participate in staff recruitment activities.

• An interest in continuous upskilling for a digital world. Procurement and relevant technological trends, an openness to learning new tools and adapting how you work
• 5+ years’ experience in leadership roles of a procurement function or similar experience with a leading management consulting firm, demonstrating working knowledge of category management and strategic sourcing, procurement function strategy and operating model development and implementation, procurement function process and technology…