Performance Improvement Supply Chain Optimization Consultant Manager
Crowe
Chicago, IL · Posted August 20, 2026
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About the job
Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here:
At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. 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.
Job Description:
Crowe’s Performance Improvement practice helps clients significantly improve their profitability by:
Solving supply chain, procurement / sourcing, supplier management / development, and operational challenges;
Developing an executable improvement plan and aligning stakeholders;
Quantifying the financial value associated with implementing the improvements; and
Partnering with our clients to drive value capture (e.g., we deliver bottom-line results, not PowerPoint presentations).
We 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.
Our 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.
Job duties include but are not limited to:
Your primary focus would be leading our strategic sourcing engagements, including:
Managing supply chain assessments which involves: Conducting executive and front-line leader interviews and completing job observations
Developing a spend cube and performance analytics to shape category events and enable impact tracking (leveraging Power BI)
Leading organizational sourcing and procurement maturity assessments to understand gaps and opportunities and develop improvement plans
Building out detailed category sourcing strategies with clients to shape plans to improve commercial terms and improve alignment with suppliers
Facilitating ideation workshops independently to gain alignment with stakeholders and refine strategies grounded in feedback
Building assessment reports and confidently presenting insights and strategies to executive leaders
Post-assessment, managing implementation of recommendations, which involves: Managing engagement and client relationships
Leading execution of one (1) to two (2) category strategies through final negotiations and award recommendations, and leading implementation of resulting supplier agreements
Supporting client optimization of sourcing and procurement organizational structures, policies, processes, and management practices; and,
Assuming ownership for ad hoc value creation workstreams when appropriate.
Our 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:
Managing logistics optimization or operational improvement engagements
Collaborating with, or managing, our extended team and client(s) to assess, design, and implement broader operational and supply chain transformation projects for diverse industries
Leading and managing execution of complex consulting value workstreams, providing operational, financial, and process analysis, strategy development, process reengineering, and modeling
Qualifications:
Non-negotiable qualifications:
Travel 95% of the time – Sunday through Thursday, more than 45 weeks a year (no flexibility on this)
Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management or a relevant field required, or more than ten (10) years of professional field experience
More than seven (7) years of strategic sourcing experience – creating and executing category strategies independently, in industry or as a consultant
More than three (3) years of experience managing projects and people
Life skills vital for being qualified/successful in our practice:
Personable 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.
Self-starter with the demonstrated ability to drive results independently
Ability and interest in learning new skills quickly and often
Ability 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)
Ability to connect issues and opportunities back to clients’ financials
Ability to say more with fewer words in your professional writing
Ability to interact and present to all levels of the organization, including executive leaders weekly
Ability to monitor teammate performance, give feedback and coach others
Ability to build and maintain productive relationships with our clients and throughout the Firm
We 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.
In 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.
The 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: Your 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!
How You Can Grow: We 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!
More about Crowe: Crowe 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.
The 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.
*As of July 2026.
Crowe 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.
Crowe 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. Any referrals, resumes or candidates submitted to Crowe, or any employee or owner of Crowe without a pre-existing agreement signed by both parties covering the submission will be considered the property of Crowe, and free of charge.
Crowe will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws.
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We are committed to a merit-based hiring process, evaluating all candidates consistently using objective, job-related criteria such as relevant experience, demonstrated skills, measurable impact, and alignment with the role’s responsibilities, and making employment decisions in a fair and inclusive manner free from discrimination.
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