- Collaborate with Finance and functional stakeholders to develop strategic sourcing plans with well-defined cost savings and avoidance targets.
- Achieve year-over-year improvements in assigned category spend, without sacrificing quality and service
- Conduct all phases in the development of complex contracts, including reviewing statements of work or requirements, request for information (RFI), and request for proposal (RFP) development.
- Partner with a broad mix of stakeholders on contract evaluation, redlining, and negotiation, such as Legal, Privacy, Information Security, and Internal Controls.
- Continually improve supplier performance by setting measurable, contractual, performance targets and related supplier performance management.
- Build and execute a plan to identify and evaluate diverse suppliers, with a goal of increasing the percentage of category spend with diverse suppliers.
- Strategize across categories/departments to identify opportunities for gained efficiencies and cost effectiveness in supplier negotiations.
- Build project plans and timelines to ensure key milestones are being captured and met as it relates to the sourcing process.
- Close sourcing projects in a timely manner, including but not limited to uploading executed agreements to our contract lifecycle management, and security stakeholder and finance approval on savings or cost avoidance.
- Effectively communicate status updates to key stakeholders, including timely identification and escalation/resolution of issues.
Candidate Requirement:
- Minimum 5-8 years of Experience in Supply Chain background (Preferably in Procurement/sourcing)
- Bachelors degree in any discipline From a tier-1 college(DCE, NSIT, IIT, IIIT) will be preferred
- Should Have Excellent Interpersonal skills and Negotiation skills.
- Should possess excellent Attention to detail and Spontaneous Problem solving skills.
- Should have the ability to take ad hoc decision, owning the Designated category and Strategizing as well as Implement the Sourcing Plans