Role Purpose
The Senior Supplier Business Partner is a senior individual contributor accountable for managing a complex external workforce portfolio and ensuring strong outcomes for both the business and supplier ecosystem.
The role combines business partnering, workforce solutioning, supplier performance, commercial governance and transformation advisory. The Senior SBP Partner is expected to independently lead business conversations, understand technology/R&D; capability requirements, guide businesses towards appropriate externalisation models, and demonstrate readiness for the SBP Lead role.
1. Business Partnership & Workforce Transformation
- Act as a consultant and trusted partner to business leaders on workforce strategy, skills, capacity, supplier capability and externalisation.
- Independently attend and lead business conversations, translating business priorities into workforce and supplier interventions.
- Build solid understanding of IT/R&D; skills, technology capabilities and evolving skill requirements relevant to the assigned portfolio.




- Guide businesses in moving from transactional T&M; models towards ODCs, Managed Services, Managed Teams/Pods and outcome-based delivery, where appropriate.
- Challenge constructively and provide data-backed recommendations on workforce mix, supplier strategy, cost, capability and delivery risk.

2. Portfolio, Business & Fulfilment Performance
- Own the assigned external workforce portfolio end-to-end and ensure both business requirements and supplier commitments perform against agreed outcomes.
- Drive fulfilment performance across demand ageing, time-to-fill, quality, conversion, onboarding and workforce continuity.
- Maintain strong command of portfolio performance and proactively intervene before demand, supplier or operational issues become escalations.
- Identify upcoming workforce, skill, capacity and delivery risks and initiate preventive actions with the business and suppliers.
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📌 Supplier Business Partner (Bengaluru)
🏢 Mercedes Benz Research and Development India
📍 Bengaluru