Location: Madrid
Date: 17 Jan 2025
Requisition ID: 1560632
EY is a global leader in audit, tax, transaction advisory, and consulting services, with over 250,000 professionals in more than 150 countries. Our ambition is to deliver long-term value to our clients, our team of professionals, and society as the most recognized professional services company in the world.
Currently, we are looking to incorporate a Supply Chain / Procurement Senior located in our office in Madrid, with more than 3 years of consulting experience in projects related to Supply Chain & Operations or Procurement area both nationally and internationally.
Key Responsibilities
As a Senior Consultant in Supply Chain & Operations, you will:
* Collaborate with the extended teams and clients to design and implement effective supply chain transformation projects for diverse industries.
* Assess the maturity level of procurement processes and initiate improvements to the current processes and systems/technologies.
* Analyze current spend and allocation model, establish sourcing strategies to enhance competitiveness, reduce costs, and optimize the supply chain.
* Oversee procurement activities, including sourcing events like RFP, RPQ, commercial negotiations, reviewing proposals, and comparing/benchmarking rates.
* Design procurement solutions, create operating models, governance frameworks and participate/conduct workshops.
* Acquire knowledge of new age procurement tools such as SAP Ariba, COUPA, Ivalua, SAP MM, etc., and work on process design/reengineering/implementation projects related to the process and/or tool.
* Review and validate data and further build optimization models, analytical reports, and presentations.
* Conduct secondary research/market intelligence to back client deliverables.
* Participate actively in building an industry-focused practice across EY service lines; specialization in a specific sector will be an added advantage.
* Provide solutions to unstructured problems.
Qualifications
To qualify for the role, you must have knowledge and experience in a number of the following areas:
* A minimum of 3 years of consulting experience, specifically in Procurement projects. Experience in other functional areas such as planning, logistics, or manufacturing will be valued and will be a plus.
* Hold a third-level qualification, preferably in procurement and supply chain.
* Knowledge and experience in Procurement operating model transformation, from spend analysis to organization, processes, systems, governance model, and KPIs.
* Expertise in end-to-end procurement processes covering areas such as spend analytics, E2E process redesign, Source to Contract, Procure to Pay, etc.
* Experience in strategic procurement, category management (direct and/or indirect spend).
* Experience in category management, developing sourcing strategies, tendering, suppliers market research, outreach and evaluation, and supporting selection processes.
* Experience in savings opportunity identification and cost reduction programs.
* Experience in contract reviews and supplier relationship management.
* Experience in developing tender documents in accordance with procurement directives.
* Experience in procurement systems and digital tools evaluation.
* Experience in sustainable procurement.
* Entrepreneurial mindset, design thinking, and passion for improvement and optimization.
* Commercial acumen and enthusiasm to learn new things in this fast-moving environment.
* Advanced user of Excel, PowerPoint & PowerBI.
If you think this could be your new opportunity, don't hesitate to send us your application!
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