Team Lead/Consultant-Procurement management

Skill required: Procurement management - Procurement Strategy and Planning

Designation: Management Level - Team Lead/Consultant

Job Location: Pune

Qualifications: Any Graduation

Years of Experience: 7-11 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.

The Procurement Strategy and Planning team is responsible for establishing long-range plans for ensuring a timely supply of goods and/or services that are critical to our firm's ability to meet its core business objectives. You will be focused on ensuring on-time delivery of materials at the designated place from suppliers while managing any queries during the process. Coordinating with suppliers and other stakeholders, determining expediting methodology, keeping track of delivery schedules, inspections, PO amendments, project milestones, and post-PO management will all be critical elements of your role. The role may require you to have experience working in Direct or Indirect (CAPEX, MRO) categories, knowledge of PO Processing, Vendor Master Data, Tactical Buying / Spot Buys, RFx, Procurement Help Desk functions, Process Optimization, QA Framework, etc.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for individuals who have the following skillset:

• Procurement Management
• Ability to perform under pressure
• Detail orientation
• Ability to establish strong client relationship
• Written and verbal communication
• Ability to meet deadlines

Roles and Responsibilities

As a team lead you will be expected to:


• Understand and effectively manage the team's governance and performance
• Understand the level of risk & propose mitigation plans and partner with other support teams to resolve requests/issues in a timely manner
• Clearly communicate team goals and deliverables and keep the team updated on changes
• Coach team members and provide the first level advice on procedures/methods
• Solve increasingly complex problems & effectively delegate to develop and groom team members for succession planning
• Maintain client relationships interface through regular connects and emails
• Understand client priorities and problems & help translate actions for the team
• Use innovation to identify opportunities to optimize processes, decrease costs and increase client value
• Use data analytics and story-telling techniques to enhance the client journey



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