Skill required: Sourcing & Procurement - Sourcing
Designation: Business Advisory Specialist
Qualifications:BCom/Master of Business Administration/CA Inter
Years of Experience:7 to 11 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. Sourcing & Procurement involves identifying, acquiring, and managing the goods and services an organization needs. This role includes researching suppliers, negotiating contracts, and purchasing materials. It also involves ensuring quality, cost-effectiveness, and timely delivery. The goal is to support the organizations operations by obtaining the best value and maintaining strong supplier relationships. 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. Collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative information to assess, screen and select suppliers.
What are we looking for B.E /B.Tech, MBA, CPSM / CPM (desired)
- 7+ years of Sourcing & Category Management experience, out of which approximately 90% should be in Global Sourcing.
- Business Insight Contract planning & development Global strategic sourcing Negotiation management RFx Management Supplier analysis & selection MS PowerPoint & Excel Category Specific Skill Should have good exposure to category planning, stakeholder management, global sourcing, and strong knowledge of the supplier landscape for various sourcing categories. Should have hands on experience in RFx processes and analysis of supplier proposals. Strong analytical and presentation skills are a must. Roles and Responsibilities:
- Manage/lead execution of sourcing projects for various sourcing categories and clients
- Spend & vendor consolidation to optimize the savings
- Support/lead annual rate contracts with suppliers
- Strong hands-on experience working on ERP systems such as Jaeggar, Ariba, SAP, etc.
- Interact with key customer and internal stakeholders and work closely with them to identify areas of improvement
- Offer creative solutions to support the overall sourcing program and achieve desired results
- Collaborate with the core team of a fast-growing Business Unit to extend and improve existing processes, develop new products and services, and support business unit strategic planning
- To ensure timely project deliverables with the defined quality standards
- Will be responsible for creating & presenting the deliverables to Client/Internal global team members
- Work with the legal and technical teams to facilitate the negotiations of the legal and technical terms in a contract.
- Negotiate and close the contract with advice from legal and technical/ business teams.
- Complexity
- Requires identifying and assessing complex problems for area of responsibility. Creates solutions in situations where analysis requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
- Requires adherence to the strategic direction set by senior management
- Interaction with senior management at a client and/or within Accenture involving matters that may require acceptance of an alternate approach. Authority Power to influence or complete assignments independently and ability to make decisions, as indicated by latitude to devise work products or plans, reliance on instruction, and decision making ability
- Some latitude in decision-making. Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on the new assignments Impact or Decision Impact
- Risk or consequences in the event of failure, as indicated by the range of expected impact, such as within a team or across a team or area of responsibility and level of risk
- Decisions have a significant day-to-day impact on areas of responsibility Scope
- Degree of accountability for assigned tasks, our clients, and/or the organization, as indicated by the size of work effort and scale of entity and/or program
- May manage medium-sized teams and/or work efforts at a client or within Accenture
