Associate Project Manager, Prokura, Kearney Activate

Full-timeDallas

Job Description

Associate Project Manager, Prokura, Kearney Activate

Location: Dallas Office; with willingness to travel as required

 

About Kearney

Kearney is a leading strategic consulting firm that partners with some of the largest organizations across North America and globally to drive transformational change and operational excellence. Our work spans multiple operational domains, helping clients optimize costs, enhance processes, and design future-ready operating models. 

About Kearney Activate 

Kearney Activate is our global capability platform, bringing together Kearney’s operations expertise with digital and AI technology to drive transformation for clients worldwide. Within Activate, Prokura is a leading specialist team focused on Source execution. We help clients unlock their supply-side potential and follow through to realize tangible value. Our work spans strategic procurement, supply chain, and broader Strategic Operations topics - from strategy and organization design to savings delivery, supplier transitions, governance, and capability uplift.

 

Role Overview

As an Associate Project Manager, focused in Source, you will manage one or more workstreams or project modules within Kearney Activate engagements, taking responsibility for the day-to-day delivery of high-quality client outcomes. You will lead teams through structured problem-solving, coordinate multiple stakeholders, and translate analytics, technology, and functional expertise into practical recommendations. You will begin to assume broader responsibility for project governance, team development, and successful implementation of change.

 

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage the delivery of one or more workstreams or project modules, establishing clear objectives, workplans, milestones, responsibilities, and measures of success.

  • Lead procurement diagnostics, sourcing programs and transformation initiatives, ensuring that the work addresses both immediate value opportunities and broader operating model implications.

  • Direct teams in establishing baselines, developing cost models, analyzing market intelligence, executing RFX processes, and preparing negotiation strategies.

  • Lead teams in diagnosing client issues, developing fact bases, testing hypotheses, and converting insights into actionable recommendations.

  • Apply data, analytics, and AI-enabled approaches appropriately to improve procurement, operations, and capital project outcomes.

  • Ensure sourcing recommendations to consider upstream and downstream implications for demand planning, forecasting, inventory, network optimization, logistics and digital transformation.

  • Own the quality and coherence of workstream outputs, ensuring analyses and recommendations are robust, practical and aligned to the overall engagement case for change.

  • Build trusted relationships with client managers and senior stakeholders, leading working sessions, presenting findings and resolving issues constructively.

  • Coordinate cross-functional and multi-disciplinary teams, managing dependencies, interfaces and competing priorities across the engagement.

  • Lead change management and implementation planning, including supply transition plans, savings program governance, benefits tracking, reporting and adoption of new ways of working.

  • Provide regular direction, coaching and feedback to Consultants and Senior Consultants, including guidance on sourcing methods, analytical tools, source-to-contract solutions and LLM-enabled workflows.

  • Monitor delivery progress, risks, issues, resources and stakeholder alignment, escalating matters early and proposing solutions.

  • Contribute to commercial management through accurate effort planning, scope control, status reporting and identification of follow-on opportunities.

  • Support business development through proposal development, client discussions, thought leadership and the creation of reusable approaches and assets.

  • Promote Kearney values and culture, contributing to an inclusive, high-performance and entrepreneurial team environment.

 

Who You Are

  • Excellent academic achievements within the framework of a bachelor's degree from a university or university of applied sciences.

  • Three or more years of experience preferred in delivering procurement and supply chain transformation results, either in an industry procurement leadership role or through management consulting engagements

  • Consulting experience at a top-tier or specialized consulting firm.

  • Strong analytical rigor and structured problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate insights into clear recommendations.

  • Ability to apply data, analytics, and AI-enabled approaches to improve procurement, operations, and capital project outcomes.

  • Comfortable leading analysis of large datasets, reviewing advanced Excel models and ensuring analytical outputs support sound client decisions.

  • Proficiency in and ability to guide teams in using LLM platforms such as ChatGPT and Claude to accelerate research, analysis, deliverable development and validation.

  • Strong knowledge of tools such as Coupa, Jaggaer or Keelvar, and other Source-to-contract solutions, with the ability to guide clients and project teams on adoption and usage.

  • Experience with Power BI, Tableau, or similar visualization platforms, with the ability to guide teams in presenting insights clearly.

  • Ability to excel in high-performance, multi-disciplinary teams and engage senior stakeholders.

  • A strong ownership mindset and entrepreneurial drive to build impact in a fast-growing regional platform.

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills (fluent in English).

  • You are a team player with excellent interpersonal skills and enjoy performance-oriented work.

  • You are motivated, energetic, cooperative and have an entrepreneurial spirit.

 

What we can offer you

Every day, our people work to be the difference for our clients, our communities, and our colleagues. Helping them make an impact, they are sustained by a competitive remuneration package plus comprehensive benefits and perks, including but not limited to:

  • Generous retirement savings contributions.

  • Comprehensive medical insurance for employees and their families.

  • Structured and on-the-job learning and development opportunities.

  • Personalized opportunities, including talent mobility, flexible work programs, and externships, help you chart a unique career journey and pursue your personal and professional goals.

  • Read more about our benefits and careers at Kearney.com/careers.

  • Senior Consultant compensation range - $160k k to $175k: It is important to note that at Kearney, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at the top of the range for their role.

Equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination

Kearney prides itself on providing a culture where our employees belong and thrive equally, which means our people feel comfort, confidence, and joy as they do great things for our firm, our colleagues, and our clients.

That’s why Kearney is committed to building a diverse workforce and inclusive environment.

Kearney is an equal opportunity employer; we recruit, hire, train, promote, develop, and provide other conditions of employment without regard to a person’s gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race or ethnicity, religion, age, national origin, disability, marital status, pregnancy status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other differences consistent with applicable laws.

This includes providing reasonable accommodation for disabilities or religious beliefs and practices. We encourage everyone to apply, including those who may not feel historically represented in consulting.