Experienced strategic sourcing and category management professional responsible for developing category strategies, leading end-to-end sourcing initiatives, managing supplier relationships, conducting RFPs and negotiations, analyzing spend and market trends, and driving cost optimization. Partners with stakeholders and senior leadership to deliver business objectives while leveraging data-driven insights and digital procurement technologies.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Promotes learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; builds relationships with cross-functional stakeholders. Listens to, responds to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentors junior team members. Practices self-leadership; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; influences team members within assigned team or unit.
Adapts to competing demands and current responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback. Models team collaboration within and across teams.
- Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promotes adherence to all procedures and policies. Partners internally and externally to make effective business decisions; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; solves complex problems; escalates high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors progress and results. Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates and delegates resources to accomplish organizational goals. Recognizes and capitalizes on improvement opportunities; evaluates recommendations made; influences the completion of project tasks by others.
- Leads the development of category/spend strategies for all key categories by leveraging expert knowledge of the markets, suppliers, and stakeholder nee
📌 Strategic Sourcing Specialist IV (Pune)
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📍 Pune
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