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With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you’re trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That’s why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry.\nJob Description:\nCrowe’s Performance Improvement practice helps clients significantly improve their profitability by:\nSolving supply chain, procurement / sourcing, supplier management / development, and operational challenges;\nDeveloping an executable improvement plan and aligning stakeholders;\nQuantifying the financial value associated with implementing the improvements; and\nPartnering with our clients to drive value capture (e.g., we deliver bottom-line results, not PowerPoint presentations).\nWe need more Supply Chain Consulting Managers to manage our strategic sourcing engagements, including leading development of global supply strategies, helping to build category strategies, managing the team’s delivery of competitive sourcing initiatives, assuming ownership for more complex value creation workstreams, and driving procurement transformations, logistics, and operational excellence strategies with clients.\nOur delivery model is reliant on highly capable managers to oversee the team’s daily work, build and maintain productive relationships with client stakeholders; in addition to leading and managing their own workstreams. This is to say that our managers assume direct ownership for solving tough sourcing, logistics, or operational challenges, while supporting other Crowe teammates in parallel. Additionally, to ensure success and exceptional client experience our teams work on site with our clients; as such, this position requires your ability to travel 95% of the time. To summarize, you need to be confident in your ability to manage complex projects and workstreams in high pressure client environments to drive results, and weekly travel cannot be an issue.\nJob duties include but are not limited to:\nYour primary focus would be leading our strategic sourcing engagements, including:\nManaging supply chain assessments which involves:Conducting executive and front-line leader interviews and completing job observations\nDeveloping a spend cube and performance analytics to shape category events and enable impact tracking (leveraging Power BI)\nLeading organizational sourcing and procurement maturity assessments to understand gaps and opportunities and develop improvement plans\nBuilding out detailed category sourcing strategies with clients to shape plans to improve commercial terms and improve alignment with suppliers\nFacilitating ideation workshops independently to gain alignment with stakeholders and refine strategies grounded in feedback\nBuilding assessment reports and confidently presenting insights and strategies to executive leaders\n\nPost-assessment, managing implementation of recommendations, which involves:Managing engagement and client relationships\nLeading execution of one (1) to two (2) category strategies through final negotiations and award recommendations, and leading implementation of resulting supplier agreements\nSupporting client optimization of sourcing and procurement organizational structures, policies, processes, and management practices; and,\nAssuming ownership for ad hoc value creation workstreams when appropriate.\n\nOur managers can also be assigned to logistics or operational consulting engagements from time to time when appropriate as a manager or as an individual contributor, which involve elements such as:\nManaging logistics optimization or operational improvement engagements\nCollaborating with, or managing, our extended team and client(s) to assess, design, and implement broader operational and supply chain transformation projects for diverse industries\nLeading and managing execution of complex consulting value workstreams, providing operational, financial, and process analysis, strategy development, process reengineering, and modeling\nQualifications:\nNon-negotiable qualifications:\nTravel 95% of the time - Sunday through Thursday, more than 45 weeks a year (no flexibility on this)\nBachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management or a relevant field required, or more than ten (10) years of professional field experience\nMore than seven (7) years of strategic sourcing experience - creating and executing category strategies independently, in industry or as a consultant\nMore than three (3) years of experience managing projects and people\nLife skills vital for being qualified/successful in our practice:\nPersonable and able to pass the airplane test - we work to lead and influence stakeholders in every aspect of our client engagements; as such, this is critical.\nSelf-starter with the demonstrated ability to drive results independently\nAbility and interest in learning new skills quickly and often\nAbility to conduct analytics that generate insights versus pivot charts (including proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint, and the ability to ramp up on Power BI quickly)\nAbility to connect issues and opportunities back to clients’ financials\nAbility to say more with fewer words in your professional writing\nAbility to interact and present to all levels of the organization, including executive leaders weekly\nAbility to monitor teammate performance, give feedback and coach others\nAbility to build and maintain productive relationships with our clients and throughout the Firm\nWe expect the candidate to uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship. These values define who we are. We expect all of our people to act ethically and with integrity at all times.\nIn compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. Crowe is not sponsoring for work authorization at this time.\nThe wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Crowe, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $123,500.00 - $197,500.00 per year.Our Benefits:\nYour exceptional people experience starts here. At Crowe, we know that great people are what makes a great firm. We care about our people and offer employees a comprehensive total rewards package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you!\nHow You Can Grow:\nWe will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper!\nMore about Crowe:\nCrowe provides professional services through two separate entities: Crowe LLP delivers audit and attest services, and Crowe Advisory LLC provides tax, advisory, consulting, and other nonattest services.\nThe Crowe Global network consists of more than 300 independent accounting and advisory services firms in more than 150 countries around the globe, making it one of the largest accounting networks in the world.* As independent members of Crowe Global, Crowe LLP and Crowe Advisory LLC serve clients worldwide.\n*As of July 2026.\nCrowe LLP and Crowe Advisory LLC (and their respective subsidiary entities) provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.\nCrowe LLP and Crowe Advisory LLC (and their respective subsidiary entities) does not accept unsolicited candidates, referrals or resumes from any staffing agency, recruiting service, sourcing entity or any other third-party paid service at any time. 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