Strategy Manager SCO - Strategic Sourcing and Cost Reduction

Job Role: Strategy Strategy Manager - Cost reduction

Location: London

Career Level: Manager 7

Industry/Sector: Energy, Consumer Goods & Services, Communications and Media, Insurance, Banking and Capital Markets

Functional Area: Strategic Sourcing and Cost Reduction

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

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As a team:

Accenture Strategy shapes our clients' future, combining deep business insight with the understanding of how technology will impact industry and business models. In joining Accenture Strategy you will drive the CEO agenda on issues related to digital disruption, competitive agility, global operating models, and workforce of the future to identify new sources of value.

No-one brings all of that together at the scale and with the degree of integration as we can. Serving 95 of the Fortune Global 100 and more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500, we're different to every other strategy firm on the market - which makes us an undeniably exciting place in which to forge a career. Technology will continue to be the disruptor in the strategy arena. Which makes Accenture the strategy firm of tomorrow.

You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.

If you're looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you!

Supply Chain and Operations is a major functionally-oriented strategy and consulting practice: we help our clients to identify and quantify the transformational opportunities available in today's dynamic business environment.

Our work spans a range of value-focused operations assignments from redefining an operating model, reconfiguring national, regional or global supply chain footprint and capabilities through to global sourcing of core categories and creation of supply chain risk frameworks to ensure that potential risks are transparent and the extended supply chain is resilient.

Accenture SC&O Strategy focuses on the following elements:

• Strategic Cost Reduction & Working Capital

• End-to-End Supply Chain & Operation Transformation

• Strategic Sourcing & Procurement

• Sustainable Value Chain including Responsible Procurement

• Global Operating Models (SC, Procurement & GBS)

• Supply Chain Risk and Resilience

• Operations and process transformations (Prime Value Chains)

In this role you will:

• Shape and design cost and productivity programmes that form an integral part of broader transformation programmes

• Provide insights on cost drivers and recommend strategies to enhance financial sustainability

• Conduct detailed spend analysis to identify cost-saving opportunities across business functions

• Develop financial models to assess cost structures, budget variances, and savings potential - leveraging industry sources and benchmarks where necessary

• Optimise supplier contracts and procurement strategies to secure cost-effective agreements

• Conduct vendor benchmarking and identify potential future negotiations to drive savings

• Identify opportunities for AI, RPA (Robotic Process Automation), and digital transformation to optimise costs

• Work cross-functionally with finance, operations, and procurement teams to implement cost strategies

• Collaborate with senior leadership to align cost-saving initiatives with business goals

• Support implementation of best practices to manage indirect / direct spend more effectively incl. governance and control & monitoring

• Link and understand how Cost Reduction and Sustainability priorities are inherently linked and articulate this to clients