Your Role and Responsibilities:

Experience Needed: 10 to 12+years in Procurement and Sourcing

- Execute competitive bid events, benchmarking projects
- Analyze changing client/market conditions
- Support sourcing projects based on client requirements
- Communicate and negotiate with clients and suppliers through all levels of organization
- Perform periodic analysis within managed commodity scope to identify savings, define efficiency opportunities and initiatives that should be undertaken
- Optimize supply base opportunities across managed commodities
- Take category guidance from the Category Manager
- Support client specific category strategy redirect spend through strategic contracts/channels as appropriate
- Educate and advise clients and suppliers on strategies
- Interface with strategic sourcing team to implement strategic contracts
- Promote process efficiencies through focus on automated channels where applicable
- Identify appropriate potential suppliers to fit clients business objectives
- Negotiate and contract with exception suppliers driving additional savings and value
- Track savings in the appropriate tool and store evidence for audit purposes
- Communicate supplier recommendations to clients based on objective criteria and fit for client business
- Track and report supplier performance and resolve any supplier performance issues in conjunction with the Category Manager
- Identify any exception opportunities to the Category Managers and make recommendations on strategic approaches that might be taken
- Interact with parallel organizations in other geos to assure consistent global approach
- Act in compliance with all relevant IBM business conduct guidelines and client driven procurement processes
- Supporting and managing competitive bid events for client(s) (i.e., Request for Proposal, Request for Quote, Request for Information, Reverse Auctions, etc.) within assigned spend categories




- Analyzing clients historical spend data in one or more categories to: support category strategy development, measure compliance with supplier agreements, and identify sourcing opportunities.
- Building and maintaining stakeholder relationships across all levels of the clients business, procurement, and legal organizations
- Understanding commercial terms and facilitating contracting processes with the clients suppliers
- Analyzing and documenting cost savings versus historical spend to ensure IBM meets or exceeds contractual savings commitments to our client(s).
- Supporting Global Category Leaders, Category Managers, and Sourcing Managers with development of category strategies and developing sourcing project strategies
- Collaborating with BPO Procurement Consultants supporting our other clients to share and leverage useful templates, strategies, lessons learned, and case studies

Required Education:

Master's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required Technical and Skilled Expertise:

The candidate must have a working knowledge of a global procurement strategy within a large corporation and have a background in one or more of the following indirect categories: Professional services, Facilities, MRO, Marketing, Engineering, Information Technology, Software, Sales, Human Resources

- Strong Negotiation and Contract Management Skills
- Apply analytical skills, numerically astute with strong demonstrated problem-solving abilities
- Apply communication skills, able to build and maintain effective and productive relationships with staff, stakeholders and suppliers
- Apply collaboration/teaming techniques
- Perform in matrix organization
- Perform time management, priorities tasks and achieve set targets
- Apply Knowledge of Business Organization and Processes, Work instructions
- Apply Business Control Requirements
- Apply customer satisfaction skills / client facing skills
- Ability to complete staff-work to a high standard
- Keen attention to detail and accuracy

Years of Experience:
10 - 20

📌 Strategic Sourcing Professional (Bengaluru)
🏢 IBM
📍 Bengaluru