Assistant Manager- Business Consulting - Procurement Ernst & Young AE

The opportunity

As new markets open up and technology advances at a dramatic pace, the world of supply chain and operations is becoming increasingly complex. At the same time, clients understand just how vital effective, sustainable operational management is to their global success. We are currently aiming at recruiting an Assistant Manager to join our team.

As a Procurement professional, you ll use your analytical insight to drive our clients global business performance. Working as part of a high-performing team, you ll deliver exceptional client service and help leading organizations improve their procurement and sourcing performance.

Our Supply Chain & Operations Procurement team members provide insights into Procurement transformation covering:

• Spend Management cost optimisation, category management, strategic sourcing
• Procurement Operating Model Transformation
• Procurement Digitalisation
• Procurement Operations
• ESG

Your key responsibilities

Drawing on your knowledge and experience, you ll create innovative commercial insights for clients, adapt methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural needs, and contribute to thought leadership. You will actively contribute to improving operational efficiency on projects and internal initiatives.

Skills and attributes for success

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• Strong Procurement projects background in industry or consulting
• 3 to 5 years experience at a tier 1 consultancy
• Outstanding academic record to at least Batchelor degree level
• Experience and Passion for one of Digital solutions and trends, operating model development, third-party spend management, ESG, or leading supply chain solutions
• Excellent communications skills including verbal, written, and presentation skills
• Entrepreneurial flare and the ability to identify business opportunities and cross sell different services and/or products
• Arabic speaking and reading an advantage but not essential

Ideally, you ll also have:

• An analytical mindset
• A change mindset
• A continuous learning mindset
• A teaming mindset
• The ability to travel across the region

What we look for

We re interested in professionals with a deep understanding in Procurement change, across Sectors. You ll need to be comfortable handling several responsibilities at once, often with shifting priorities. It s a highly collaborative environment, where you ll be building and maintaining relationships with colleagues and clients at all levels so you ll also need to be genuinely engaging, with interests and contacts in communities outside of your work life.