Skill required: Procurement Operations - Procurement Management

Designation: Procurement Practice Senior Analyst

Qualifications:Any Graduation

Years of Experience:5 to 8 years

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What would you do Go beyond processing purchase orders at lower costs to help clients reap savings and value from the billions they spend on the goods and services that run their day-to-day business operations. 1. Strong knowledge of Procurement & Supply Chain processes, especially PR-to-PO lifecycle. 2. Lead and manage day-to-day PR Validation and Approval activities, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with defined SOPs and controls 3. Ensure all PR requests are validated, approved appropriately within agreed SLAs. 4. Monitor workload distribution, queue health, and ageing to proactively address risks to delivery 5. Act as an escalation point for complex PR issues, exceptions, and urgent business requests. 6. Ensure timely and accurate resolution of requestor queries 7. Collaborate with stakeholders to reduce repeat queries through process improvements and knowledge sharing. 8. Prepare and present weekly operational dashboards and performance reviews to the client, covering volumes, SLAs, quality, risks, and action plans. 9. Proactively communicate operational issues, risks, and mitigation plans to client stakeholders. 10. Lead, coach, and mentor team members to drive performance, skill development, and engagement. 11. Conduct regular team connects, performance reviews, and feedback sessions. 12. Collaborate with upstream and downstream teams (requestors, buyers, AP, suppliers) to improve end-to-end procurement efficiency.

What are we looking for Excellent communication (supplier-facing + internal teams) Ability to manage escalations and resolve onboarding bottlenecks Strong ownership mindset as an individual contributor

Roles and Responsibilities:

In this role you are required to do analysis and solving of increasingly complex problems
Your day to day interactions are with peers within Accenture
You are likely to have some interaction with clients and/or Accenture management
You will be given minimal instruction on daily work/tasks and a moderate level of instruction on new assignments
Decisions that are made by you impact your own work and may impact the work of others
In this role you would be an individual contributor and/or oversee a small work effort and/or team
Please note that this role may require you to work in rotational shifts