Accenture

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.

Accenture Procurement Plus is seeking an experienced and driven Category Manager Technology to lead our Italian technology category operations. This role plays a critical part in executing global and regional strategies at a local level, ensuring value delivery, stakeholder satisfaction, and supplier performance across the Technology category.

As the Manager for Technology, you will be responsible for:

• Lead implementation of the global/regional Technology category strategy at the country/market unit level, leading and developing local category Procurement Plus Technology team and initiatives
• Implementing global and regional sourcing strategies within the local market, driving cost savings, service excellence, and compliance and support local business planning, budgeting, and strategic decision-making
• Support pipeline planning and forecasting of sourcing activities and implement supplier KPIs and drive continuous improvement initiatives
• Ensure effective contract implementation and usage of preferred buying channels and Design RFPs and conduct competitive sourcing processes

Key skills:

• At least 9 years’ experience in procurement or category management experience, including project leadership in the IT industry and Technology categories
• Comfortable working in a matrix type organization, stakeholder and team members (on-shore & near-shore) management skills
• Analytical, presentation, communication (written & oral), interpersonal, negotiation and influencing skills
• Relationship management skills and a proactive customer-focused approach
• Ability to manage multiple projects, adopt a flexible approach and prioritize tasks appropriately
• Degree and Fluent in English

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

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