Manager-Procurement

Skill required: Procurement management - Sourcing

Designation: Management Level - Manager

Job Location: Gurugram

Qualifications: Master of Business Administration/Post Graduate Diploma in Management/Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing and Advertising/Post Graduate in any discipline

Years of Experience: 13-18 years

What would you do?

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 Sourcing 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.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for individuals who have the following skillset:

• Procurement Management
• Project Management
• Reporting and Analytics
• Spend analysis
• Supply Chain Execution
• Ability to perform under pressure
• Ability to establish strong client relationship
• Ability to handle disputes
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders
• Ability to meet deadlines

Roles and Responsibilities

• In this role you are required to identify and assess complex problems for area of responsibility
• You will need to create solutions in situations which requires an in-depth analysis/evaluation of variable factors
• This will require alignment to strategic direction set by senior management when establishing near-term goals
• Your primary interaction will be with senior management at a client and/or within Accenture, involving matters that may require acceptance of an alternate approach
• Some latitude in decision-making is involved, you will act independently to determine methods and procedures on new assignments
• You will need to flag risks to clients and Accenture stakeholders and propose action plans where needed
• You will need to have an innovative mindset to identify improvement opportunities to optimize processes, decrease costs and increase client value
• Decisions that you make in this role will have a major day to day impact on area of responsibility
• You will be managing medium - large sized teams and/or work efforts at a client or within Accenture
• You would require transformation mindset and eye for identifying automation/process improvement opportunities.

Please note this role may require you to work in rotational shifts.