Education:

Graduate or Equivalent with strong negotiation skills (Minimum 4-5 year experience)

Job Related Experience:

Techno-commercial experience in any Industry with good knowledge of Indirect Purchase process

Valuable knowledge of Buying

Strong in working in a cross-culture environment

Business Understanding:

Strong communication skills, Team management, supplier management, stakeholders management, Work administration, Mentoring, and Negotiation skills

Others (e.g. language skills, technical skills):

Good knowledge of Purchase /Procurement & Purchasing tools, SAP, Oracle purchase module
- Selection of suppliers/ partners to fulfill the business requirements based on TCO model

Full

Suppliers selection approach
- Achievement of optimal price level/ SLA’s with the selected suppliers, keeping tab on the market prices and intelligence thereof

Full

Negotiation Skills
- Maintaining win- win relation with the suppliers/ partners and resolving the supplier issues as and when it arises

Full

Market Benchmarking




- Floating RFQs/ RFPs and RFIs as per business needs taking into account the feedback from stakeholders in events, Hotel negotiation

Full

Approach to Market
- Preparing supplier bids comparison & evaluation, conducting negotiations, LOI/ Contract formation, SLA’s and other contract exhibits

Full

Analytical skills
- Monitoring supplier’s performance and developing improvement action plan along with Suppliers and internal Systems and Processes team

Partial

Relationships with suppliers
- Improve Customer Satisfaction by delivering faster turn around time for implementing new / additional request, reducing the overall cost, improving team’s performance and driving changes concurrent with market conditions and trends

Partial

Customer Feedback
- Purchase order management, supplier management, experience of working in an integrated SAP environment

Full

Application expertise

📌 Procurement Buyer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Schneider Electric
📍 Bengaluru