Our client, an American multinational consumer products company is looking to engage with a

Indirect Procurement Consultant.

Job Summary The role involves managing procurement activities for Marketing, Media, Customer Development, and Professional Services, including finding and managing vendors, handling RFPs and negotiations, achieving cost savings, and working closely with internal teams to meet business requirements.

Job Objective

- Develop Sub-Category Sourcing Strategies, and lead execution in the region.
- Enhance the Commercial and Qualified spends categories, by focusing on exceeding the Innovation, Efficiency and FTG goals; while optimally communicating with Collaborators.

Core Responsibilities

- Leading the development of Sourcing strategies for the mentioned categories and sub-categories for CP India.
- Identify and develop major Funding the Growth initiatives, gain alignment and delivers financial result to the bottom line
- Collaborate with internal collaborators and agency partners to develop the important metrics in order to give to the business
- Ensure regular updates of results, savings and specific projects throughout monthly reports and the utilization of the eSavings database
- Leading the engagement of the internal collaborators i.e. Marketing & Customer Development Managers to understand local business requirements and needs to build the pipeline of projects that have that highest savings potential
- Leading all Request for Information (RFI) and request for proposal (RFP) for the mentioned categories and sub-categories, and other procurement e-tools and processes such as Ariba

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Planning

- Lead the strategic sourcing process for the mentioned Marketing, Customer Development, HR or equivalent experience & Professional Categories & Sub-Categories and contract negotiations in CP India
- Update/Refine the Annual Sourcing Strategic Planning Process, including all aspects of the category ie. Supplier Segmentation, Spend Deep Dive Analysis, Internal/External market dynamics etc.
- Acquire periodical category market intelligence insights, and perform annual benchmarking with external companies.
- Participate in Industry events to stay current related to procurement standard processes, and bring new insights to the organization.

Vendor Management

- Lead the implementation of SRM program initiatives for strategic vendors.




- Expand the pool of vendors to achieve simplification, and have a good understanding of regional/global vendor capabilities and geographical coverage.
- Track supplier performance
- Lead and track vendor simplification
- Working closely with the vendors in all categories and sub-categories to bring in standard processes in the areas of innovation, better than market deals, best-in-class service levels

Contract Management/Compliance

- Lead and supervise the effective contract execution and management.
- Lead and standardize regional eSourcing processes, build appropriate templates to facilitate the process.
- Coordinate procurement risk assessment on the category vendors and develop risk mitigation plans. Responsible for tracking of the supplier audits until full closure of findings.
- Make sure the team follows the Global Procurement governance in all projects, CRMC (Contract Risk Management Committee) approvals, eSourcing tools, Supplier Code of Conduct sign off, etc.)
- Handle ethical and professional relationships with vendors.

FTG

- Promote Innovation, Pursue Savings goals for the category, and supervise regional results.
- Implement Category and Sub-Category Brainstorming Sessions as a field
- Facilitate idea sharing in the region.

Alignment/Collaboration

- Collaborate with global IP teams for the said categories and sub categories, to secure full alignment.
- Keep a strong alignment and coordination with local Category IP Managers/Buyers, setting up priorities for the handled spend categories.
- Align with the Commercial Organization, globally and regionally. Call out issues/opportunities as needed. Follow Team member engagement standard processes to better understand the business needs and align on resources and priorities.
- Assist in Increasing the IP category focus, with clear critical communication

Effectiveness and Efficiency

- Identify/Support category process improvements that are required to achieve the Procurement goals.




- Spend analytics and reporting to be done on a regular basis

Skills Required

Skills Expected:

- Ability to influence internal and external collaborators, building a strong case for implementation.
- Partnership and Relationship building. Being a great teammate when interacting with partners and peers. Able to handle relationships at all levels of the organization
- Strong Business Analysis. Using business tools and information systems when solving problems and making decisions. Using data to support recommendations.
- Negotiation skills. Planning and anticipation, demonstrates professionalism in all business settings and shows ability to control emotions, mannerisms, and communication style.
- Project management skills.
- Ability to work cross functional and cross regional with desired Commercial Services experience.
- Deep functional and market knowledge of all the mentioned Categories and Sub-Categories

Courageous –Driving Innovation/ Fostering Experimentation

- Challenges existing assumptions and takes calculated risks
- Builds on “seed” / incubator ideas
- Brainstorms and cultivates new ways of doing things
- Gains consensus and implements new insights quickly and optimally

Strategic Vision/ Business Global Perspective

- Demonstrates clarity and passion in driving a shared vision, objectives, values and principles
- Demonstrates knowledge of customers, competitors and marketplace to enhance competitiveness and accelerate business growth
- Brings cross-disciplinary knowledge to bear on issues and opportunities
- Actively integrates external standard processes and trends

Influence & Negotiation/ Partnership & Collaboration:

- Encourages others to think outside their functional areas to tackle an issue or develop new insights
- Seeks diverse viewpoints and builds on the ideas / work of others
- Shows ability to communicate clearly, simply and efficiently builds a convincing case to support the breakthrough ideas
- Identifies who needs to be influenced in order to get things done

5. Background preferred:

- Minimum 4-5 Years of Procurement experience
- Minimum 4-5 Years of Marketing (Displays, POP Material, Premiums, Printed Materials, Market Research)/Media (Networking Media, Media Production, Digital, Programmatic Buying)/ Professional Categories (as mentioned above) Procurement experience

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