Senior Associate, Operations & Procurement, Consulting (Bilingual FR/EN) bei PwC Canada

Meaningful work you’ll be part of 

As a Senior Associate, Operations & Procurement, Consulting (Bilingual FR/EN), you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve business issues, deliver high quality client service and operational efficiency. You will be a key contributor to project teams delivering complex engagements across North America—from targeted assessments and pilots to large-scale, end-to-end digital transformations. Working with client stakeholders at all levels (from junior to executive), PwC colleagues (onshore and offshore), and third-party vendors. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: 

• Demonstrate deep expertise in business transformations focused on cost reduction, process improvement, performance enhancement, and technology implementation. 
• Lead diagnostics and root-cause analyses, developing financial and operational models to quantify opportunities and evaluate trade-offs. 
• Conduct procurement assessments, design sourcing and category strategies, and support supplier segmentation, governance frameworks, selection, and onboarding activities.
• Develop recommendations for Distribution Center design, inventory management, automation, logistics, and transportation improvements.
• Drive enhancements in demand and supply planning (S&OP) processes and support implementation efforts, including procurement platform/ERP enablement, process redesign, piloting, testing, and change management to embed new operating models. 
• Utilize analytics, automation, and visualization tools to extract insights, prioritize initiatives, and enable scalable, data-driven solutions. 
• Prepare and present client-ready deliverables, articulating findings and strategic recommendations to senior stakeholders. 
• Lead mixed teams of consulting and client resources (2-3 people) through assessments, implementations, and ongoing continuous improvement activities, overseeing engagement risk, planning, and budgeting to ensure project economics are effectively managed.
• Build and sustain trusted relationships with key client decision-makers, facilitating long-term collaboration, and mentor and coach junior team members while contributing to proposal development, solution innovation, and thought leadership efforts.
• Engage proactively in your personal and professional growth through structured coaching, skill development, participation in recruitment, and staff development initiatives, while demonstrating flexibility and readiness to travel up to 70% to support client engagements and successful project delivery.

Experiences and skills you’ll use to solve 

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, or a closely related discipline; and 3 to 4+ years of professional experience within a leading management consulting firm or relevant industry role (operations, supply chain, procurement). 

• Hands-on expertise in procurement, encompassing category management and strategic sourcing (direct and indirect), supplier management, and spend analytics; familiarity with sustainable and agile procurement practices is an asset. 

• Proven track record of delivering end-to-end business transformations or operational improvement programs and partnering with operations teams to translate business needs into effective technology solutions. 

• Expertise in supply chain operations: DC design, Transport optimization, Automatization, Network Design 

• Analysis and practical knowledge of agile methodologies with experience applying agile principles to project delivery; strong capabilities in process optimization and facilitation of value-stream mapping and business process workshops. 

• Excellent client-facing communication and presentation skills, with demonstrated ability to engage stakeholders at multiple seniority levels and lead workstreams effectively. 

• Strong analytical and modeling skills (advanced simulation tools); leveraging data to quantify opportunities and support fact-based decision-making. 

• Familiarity with digital and analytics tools such as Power BI/Tableau, Alteryx, SQL, or basic Python; comfortable working with procurement or ERP platforms (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Coupa, Ariba). 

• High professional integrity, collaborative mindset, proactive ownership, and a strong passion for learning and mentoring others, and willingness to travel as required. 

• The successful candidate requires fluency in English, in addition to French as they will be required to support or collaborate with English-speaking clients, colleagues and/or stakeholders during the course of their employment with PwC Canada  

• PwC Canada is committed to cultivating an inclusive, hybrid work environment. Exact expectations for your team can be discussed with your interviewer