Contracts Associate / Strategic Buyer

What role you will play in our team

Develop comprehensive agreements or spot orders of goods and services for our Business Clients on timely. These agreements/orders should ensure that all acquisitions are made under competitive terms, optimizing cost-efficiency and maintaining high standards of quality and service also fostering strong and reliable business relationships.

What you will do

Drive value, efficiency and expanded market advantage via end-to-end category management phases, while ensuring operational integrity.

Plan, organize and control business, contracts, negotiations for acquisition of Goods and services.

Skills and Qualifications:

- Bachelor s degree in engineering and Equivalent related stream with minimum 6 CGPA.
- Minimum 2+ years of procurement and/or contracting experience
- Responsible for supplier identification evaluating and sourcing suppliers and managing ongoing supplier relationships to drive projects to achieve the objectives of global requirement.
- Own commercial actions (bids/Auctions, renewals, amendments, etc) by focusing on Rate Kaizen, total system cost, provide assistance in negotiating medium to high complexity contracts or orders.
- Spend management - Market intelligence, analyze the expenditure and patterns to identify opportunity for consolidation, supplier base rationalization, demand management, alternative analysis etc




- Proactively communicate and collaborate within Projects organization, functions (ie legal, controllers, etc) and Procurement category families to maximize commercial outcomes.
- Ensure all documents and exhibits are complete and included in the final contract, all functional reviews and management approvals are complete/obtained as required
- Handle complete Procure to Pay (P2P) activities and operations and responsible for contract life-cycle management for assigned projects while leveraging relevant partners across the organization.
- Bring industry expertise in supporting category strategies that drive savings and business transformation. Analyzes the supply market to understand industry trends, market competitiveness, goods, services, alternatives, etc

Preferred Qualifications/Experience:

- Analytical skills / knowledge of TSC/TCO principles
- General industry and global market knowledge
- Effective negotiation, advocacy and influencing skills
- Knowledge of PtP process including ERP systems
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to work across different cultures and organizations
- Rapid learner, results/customer oriented

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📌 Contracts Associate / Strategic Buyer (Bengaluru)
🏢 ExxonMobil
📍 Bengaluru