What youll be doing:

- Should be proficient in Strategic Sourcing: Analyzing spend data, creating internal external category profiles, Market intelligence reports, Opportunity assessments, devising category strategies, identifying sourcing levers for respective market categories, analyzing costing for a product or service, conduct structured supplier negotiations, understand the nuances of contracting and execute the same with suppliers in coordination with legal teams, managing statutory compliances and sustainability requirements etc.
- Executing projects through GEP Source to Contract platform, performing procurement risk, governance compliance activities, supporting procurement operational activities etc.
- Experience working in reputed S2C platforms shall be appreciated specifically GEP S2C.
- Day to day performance of procurement activities, managing workloads and priorities, coordinate with the team and escalating, reporting to sourcing procurement manager on a regular basis.
- Ensure high quality stakeholder engagement both internal (procurement) external (suppliers, agencies, business contacts).
- Support Team Lead in managing agreed objectives/deliverables and provide timely appropriate updates until project closure.
- Collecting, communicating and documenting requirements from stakeholders.
- Execute strategic sourcing projects in coordination with category teams and sourcing procurement manager.
- Analyze buying patterns, volumes to determine appropriate buying channel e.g. catalogue, P-card, PO purchase etc.




- Providing specialist administrative support from beginning to end of a tendering project/RFP ensuring the integrity of the process.
- Keeping an audit trail for each project and ensuring required documentation is in place.
- Providing a professional, efficient and effective response to stakeholders when handling clarification questions and responding to other enquiries.

What youll need:

- Proficient in strategic sourcing and procurement methodology and process.
- Experience in working on Source2Contract platforms.
- Demonstrated ability to devise and provide insight on spend categories and supply markets based internal external category profiles.
- Strong procurement operational skills, legal understanding and RFI/RFP activities.

Youre open

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We are inclusive and team-oriented; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

Youre optimistic

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We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures for our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

Youre extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

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📌 Sourcing and Procurement Analyst (Strategic Sourcing) (Mumbai)
🏢 WPP
📍 Mumbai