Senior Manager and Director, Operational Value Creation Cost & Productivity
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Job Location:
Chicago, IL - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
4 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Are you ready to make an impact
Director and Senior Manager / Manager Cost & Productivity
Role Overview
West Monroe is expanding its Operational Value Creation practice with a focus on helping clients identify prioritize activate and realize sustainable cost reduction and productivity enhancements.
We are seeking Director and Senior Manager / Manager level candidates with strong experienceidentifying and executing cost reduction across third-party spend including indirect and direct categories by leveraging AI-enabled insights to drive value creation.
This role requires a leader who hasdelivered real P&L savings and who can leveragedata analytics and emerging AI-enabled toolsto accelerate insight improve decision-making and sustain results.
Key Responsibilities
- Leadend-to-end cost reduction programsacross indirect and direct spend categories
- Identify size and prioritize cost reduction opportunities usingspend analytics benchmarks and AI-enabled insights
- Design and execute sourcing demand management supplier rationalization and should-cost initiatives
- ApplyAI- and automation-enabled approachesto:
- Accelerate spend visibility and opportunity identification
- Support category strategy development
- Improve governance and savings tracking
- Own execution through savings realization governance and sustainability
- Serve as a trusted advisor to client executives (CFO COO CPO Operations leaders)
- Lead and develop multi-disciplinary teams including procurement operations data and change resources
- Contribute to buildingrepeatable AI-enabled category playbooks and toolkits
- Support business development by articulating a clear execution-led value proposition
Required Experience & Qualifications
- 10 years of experiencein management consulting or advisory roles
- Experience working withmiddle-market clients ($500M$2B revenue)
- Deep expertise inthird-party spend cost reduction including indirect and direct categories
- Proven track record ofexecuting cost programs not just diagnosing opportunities
- Experience applyinganalytics automation or AI-enabled toolsto procurement or cost programs
- Strong client relationship skills and executive presence
- Demonstrated success leading teams and managing complex stakeholder environments
What Success Looks Like
- Measurable sustainable EBITDA improvement for clients
- Cost programs that are faster to launch and easier to scale through AI enablement
- Strong executive relationships that lead to repeat and portfolio-wide work
- Category playbooks that become institutional assets at West Monroe
Preferred Attributes
- Experience with PE-backed portfolio companies
- Exposure toagentic or workflow-based automation in procurement sourcing or spend management
- Comfort operating in ambiguous execution-oriented environments
Based on pay transparency guidelines the salaryrange for this role canvary based on your proximity to one of our West Monroe offices (seetable below). Information on our competitive total rewards packageincluding our bonus structure and benefits ishere. Individual salaries are determined by evaluating a variety of factors including geographyexperience skills education and internal equity.
Employees (and their families) are covered by medical dental vision and basic life insurance. Employeesare able toenroll in our companys 401k planpurchase shares from our employee stock ownership program and be eligible toreceive annual bonuses. Employees will also receive unlimited flexible time offand ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Eligibility for ten weeks of paid parental leave will also be available upon hire date.
Other consultancies talk at you.
At West Monroe we work with you.
Were a global business and technology consulting firm passionate about creating measurable value for our clients delivering real-world solutions.
The combination of business and technology is not new but how we bring them together is unique. Were fluent in both. We know that technology alone is not the answer but how we apply it is. We rely on data to constantly adapt and solve new challenges. Actions that work today with outcomes that generate value for years to come.
At West Monroe we zero in on the heart of the opportunity getting to results faster and preparing people for whats next.
Youll feel the difference in how we work. We show up personally. Were right there in the room with you co-creating through the challenges. With West Monroe collaboration isnt a lofty promise but a daily action. We work together with you to turn vision into clear action with lasting impact.
West Monroeis an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
We believe in treating each employee and applicant for employment fairly and with dignity. We base our employment decisions on merit experience and potential without regard to race color national origin sex sexual orientation gender identity marital status age religion disability veteran status or any other characteristic prohibited by federal state or local law. To learn more about diversity equity and inclusion at West Monroe visit If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in our recruiting process please inquire by sending an email to .
Please review our current policy regarding use of generative artificial intelligence during the application process.
If you are based in California we encourage you to read West Monroes Notice at Collection for California residents provided pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and linkedhere.
Required Experience:
Director
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About Company
West Monroe is a global business and technology consulting firm passionate about creating value for our clients.
