Role & responsibilities:

AI & Automation Manager: Overview Lead AI, GenAI, and automation initiatives for Procurement (S2P) to drive efficiency, quality, compliance, and digital transformation.

Key Responsibilities

- Deliver AI/GenAI, RPA, OCR, NLP, and workflow automation across PR PO, sourcing, contracting, invoicing, and supplier ops.
- Build Procurement AI tools: chatbots, extraction engines, document summarizers, RAG knowledge systems, intelligent workflows.
- Drive process automation to reduce cycle time, improve accuracy, and enhance compliance.
- Partner with Category, Sourcing, Contracting, Finance, and Ops teams to embed AI in procurement operations.
- Manage end to end delivery: discovery design build test deploy adoption.
- Track KPIs, ROI, automation value, and ensure alignment with Responsible AI and procurement governance.
- Support capability building for the Procurement Automation & AI CoE.

Preferred candidate profile BE/BTech (CSE / IT / EEE preferred).

📌 Procurement domain experience, Transformation RPA and/or Agentic AI (Pune)
🏢 WNS Holdings
📍 Pune