Akkodis is seeking a Senior Consultant, Procurement Consulting & Outsourcing for a full-time position with a client in Oak Park, IL.

Salary Range: $150,000 to $160,000/ Year(The salary may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors)

Title: Senior Consultant, Procurement Consulting & Outsourcing

Location: Oak Park, IL (Hybrid 2-3 Days onsite)

Type: Fulltime

Responsibilities

• Grow the Procurement vertical in the North American Market
• Build Procurement Consulting & Outsourcing capability:
• Create a knowledge repository-strategic sourcing, purchase-to-pay (P2P) services procurement, contracts and category management
• Conduct training sessions for delivery, sales, and marketing teams
• Help build high-impact case studies with business benefits
• Extensive experience in building Procurement Consulting & Outsourcing operating models, scaling operations, and driving enterprise value.

Improve Visibility:

• Participate in various marketing initiatives such as authoring articles on Procurement Consulting & Outsourcing, webinars, and podcasts.

Business Development:

• Key responsibility will be to acquire new customers. Lead the end-to-end sales cycle, i.e., solutions, pricing, and closure.
• Proactively seek out new opportunities with existing clientele; maintain a portfolio of clients for repeat business (Manage existing clients)
• Hands-on experience & delivery through applications – Coupa procurement, Oracle, SAP Ariba, Basware, Zycus, & Ivalua.
• Deliver hard benefits to the clients -agreed metrics with the clients for improvement ( Business ,Finance & Operations)
• Work closely with clients to provide solutions on assignments
• Be the primary point of contact between the customer and delivery teams
• Meet and exceed client expectations and resolve relationship and/or operations issues in a timely manner for new clients (Ensuring good customer satisfaction score)
• Engage with current customers for opportunity sizing, closures, pass delivery to India, and review the progress of the delivery team in India
• Co-ordinate with various external and internal stakeholders to achieve better results and forge close working relationships and alliances to get things done internally for the client
• Stay on top of information needed by prospective customers to serve as a resource
• Help lead proposal development and other new business development activities by leveraging existing relationships with C-level executives

Education & Experience:

• Bachelors in Engineering/Finance
• MBA (Finance/Operations Management) /APICS
• Experience: 6 to 8 years of experience post MBA (2-3 Years’ experience in the healthcare industry would be a plus)

Key Skills

• In-depth/hands-on understanding of Procurement Consulting & Outsourcing solutions
• Industry Experience: Life Sciences – Pharmaceuticals/ Medical Devices/ Food processing, consumer electronics/Automobile/Biotechnology/ Consumer Goods - Food & Beverage, Consumer Health/Beauty /Semiconductors, etc.
• Functional Areas: Procurement Consulting & Outsourcing Planning, Sourcing & Procurement, Manufacturing & Packaging, Fulfilment, Digital Transformation
• Proven track record of delivering excellent Procurement Consulting & Outsourcing solutions to clients
• Understanding of Procurement Consulting & Outsourcing technology, procurement and materials management platforms etc
• Demonstrated experience in selling and delivering projects that cover the full life cycle of assessment, design, and implementation support
• Broad functional knowledge within Procurement Consulting & Outsourcing Consulting with the ability to understand and connect with a variety of executive-level stakeholders on their specific pain points
• Excellent networking, presentation, and negotiation skills
• Strategically minded and able to provide a consultative and solution-minded sales solution to prospective clients
• Demonstrated ability to work in a multicultural global environment
• Ability to communicate confidently at the C-level to build meaningful internal and external relationships.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and hands-on experience with Procurement Consulting & Tools- Coupa procurement, Oracle, SAP Ariba, & Ivalua.

Benefits include but are not limited to:

• Medical/Dental/Vision
• 401K
• PTO/Paid Holidays

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The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records