Category Management Specialist-Procurement management

Skill required: Procurement management - Sourcing

Designation: Management Level - Team Lead/Consultant

Job Location: Noida

Qualifications: Any Graduation

Years of Experience: 7 to 11 years

You will be aligned with our Procurement vertical and help us in the process of finding and agreeing to terms, and acquiring goods, services, or works from an external source, often via a tendering or competitive bidding process. Procurement is used to ensure the buyer receives goods, services, or works at the best possible price when aspects such as quality, quantity, time, and location are compared. You will be working as a part of Procurement management team which uses a systematic approach for buying all the goods and services needed for a company to stay sustainable. They are involved in the identification of need, finding and qualifying the suppliers, requesting proposals, negotiating with suppliers, contracting, delivery and analyzing results. In this role, you will work and understand when & how to use a request for proposal (price and non-price factors) and RFQ (price only) and how to develop, execute and analyze the results. You will collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative information to assess, screen, and select suppliers. Inventory performance will need to be improved through flexible fulfillment and available-to-promise methods. In this role, you may also have to work on the COUPA sourcing module.

Procurement Management
Sourcing
Sourcing and Procurement Strategy
Ability to establish strong client relationship
Ability to manage multiple stakeholders
Ability to work well in a team
Negotiation skills
Problem-solving skills

In this role you are required to do analysis and solving of moderately complex problems
May create new solutions, leveraging and, where needed, adapting existing methods and procedures
The person would require understanding of the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to team goals
Primary upward interaction is with direct supervisor
May interact with peers and/or management levels at a client and/or within Accenture
Guidance would be provided when determining methods and procedures on new assignments
Decisions made by you will often impact the team in which they reside
Individual would manage small teams and/or work efforts (if in an individual contributor role) at a client or within Accenture
Please note that this role may require you to work in rotational shifts