Job Description

Strategy

- Support the Category Manager in the effective management of strategically important suppliers and the productive global sourcing of key external workers.
- Collect and analyze the spend related to the category

Supplier Qualification

- Lead the vendor qualification activities for the vendors identified as strategic in your category.
- Negotiation and contractualization of Frame Agreement with T2 suppliers of the category
- Support the Category Manager on the contractualization of Frame Agreement with T1 suppliers of the category
- Liaise with HR stakeholders and the business to ensure timely definition and implementation of requirements during contract negotiations with owner representatives

Supplier Management

- support the Category manager in developing a long-term relationship with the strategic suppliers
- Provide constant input to Category Manager to develop and mature the market analysis in line with future projects requirement
- Provide support to Project Operations teams when the relationship with the vendor is at risk (eg dispute claims resolution, compliance performance, etc)

Supplier Performance

- Monitor Category Agreement performance in line with Category objectives




- Ensure that best practices / lessons learned are captured, formalized, shared and implemented for continuous improvement acting as memory keeper.

Reporting

- Verify the status of POs and chase for payments.
- Prepare weekly progress report on purchasing activities (PR/PO/invoicing/payment status)

Academic: Any Graduate with 4 to 7 years of work experience

Experience :

- Familiar with procurement administration and purchasing systems, preferably IFS (AMOS NADIA) and MS applications.
- Familiar with purchasing regulations and legislation in the country of operation.
- Understanding of service contracts
- Fluent in written and spoken English.
- Ability to travel internationally including offshore.

Soft skills

- Comprehensive understanding of Contingent Workforce Management (CWM) processes, systems, and best practices, especially in a Procure to Pay (P2P) context.
- Knowledge of External workforce and risk associated.
- Understanding of service contracts and external worker regulations
- Labor Law expertise/background
- Knowledge of external worker procedures and regulations

📌 Digital Corrosion Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 SBM Offshore
📍 Bengaluru