Procurement+ External Talent Strategy Lead - EMEA

Are you an experienced professional with a passion for workforce strategy, supplier management, and stakeholder engagement? At Accenture, we're looking for an External Talent Strategy Lead – EMEA to help shape and evolve our External Talent strategy across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Within the Global Procurement+ organization, you will play a key role in designing, defining, and driving innovative External Talent (ET) strategies while partnering closely with regional and global stakeholders. You will influence strategic initiatives, optimize supplier ecosystems, drive analytics-led decision making, and contribute to Accenture's ability to access the best talent globally.

Job Description

Lead with expertise, drive innovation.

What you'll do

• Design, evolve, and support the implementation of the EMEA External Talent strategy aligned with global Procurement+ objectives.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with regional and global stakeholders, enabling effective workforce and supplier strategies.
• Lead strategic initiatives and projects focused on vendor management, talent acquisition channels, workforce innovation, and operational excellence.
• Monitor EMEA-wide supplier performance, contract coverage, spend analytics, and reporting to identify opportunities for optimization.
• Drive supplier selection, sourcing events, and strategic negotiations while promoting the use of global and regional strategic providers.
• Develop and maintain reporting frameworks, dashboards, and analytics to support decision making.
• Ensure compliance with procurement processes, local regulations, and Accenture policies.
• Foster collaboration across the ET community through knowledge sharing, stakeholder engagement, and community leadership.

At Accenture, this role sits within Global Procurement+, a function dedicated to creating value through strategic sourcing, supplier innovation, workforce solutions, and intelligent operations.

You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across Procurement+, Talent Acquisition, Finance, Legal, Operations, and Business Leadership to help shape how Accenture accesses and manages External Talent globally. Through data-driven decision making, supplier innovation, workforce transformation initiatives, and strategic supplier engagement, you'll directly contribute to Accenture's reinvention journey and long-term growth.