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Your role

1. Bid Preparation Procurement Support:
- Support bid teams by consolidating procurement inputs across IT Telco categories.
- Review bid documentation to identify procurement needs, dependencies, and risks.
- Ensure accurate cost structures and validate them against procurement benchmarks or existing contracts.

1. Supplier engagement
- Launch RFQs to approved suppliers and coordinate responses within tight bid timelines.
- Support suppliers in understanding scope, timelines, and technical requirements.
- Collect, challenge, and consolidate supplier quotations, ensuring clarity and alignment with bid specifications.

1. Internal Collaboration Communication
- Work with Category Managers, Procurement Excellence, Finance Controllers, Legal, and Bid Managers to gather required inputs.
- Provide procurement insights during bid reviews.
- Respond rapidly to requests for clarifications from the bid team or stakeholders.

Your profile

- 12 to 18 years experience in IT Procurement, sourcing,



category management, or vendor management.
- Robust analytical and commercial skills, with ability to interpret cost models and bid requirements.
- Stakeholder-management abilities-capable of coordinating across multiple teams under time pressure.
- Ability to quickly understand technical scopes (IT infrastructure, Telco services, installation services, software resale, etc.) and translate them into procurement actions.
- Strong understanding of IT procurement lifecycle - demand intake, sourcing, evaluation, negotiation, contracting, and supplier management.
- Ability to run end-to-end RFP/RFQ/RFI processes, including scope definition, commercial analysis, vendor scoring, and executive-ready recommendations
- Knowledge of category strategy development for software (SaaS, licenses, renewals, resale), hardware IT Services
- Familiarity with global procurement processes and tools.

What you'll love about working here

- Exposure to large, international bids with strategic impact.
- Opportunity to collaborate with cross-functional teams and global stakeholders.
- A diverse and inclusive culture grounded in innovation and continuous improvement.
- Development opportunities across procurement and commercial domains.

📌 Bid Support Buyer (Procurement - IT & Telco) (Bengaluru)
🏢 Capgemini
📍 Bengaluru