Manager - Supply Chain Management

Strategy development and planning:

- Support the Category lead in development of Annual Sourcing Plan for sub-categories under Services (incl. internal and external demand)
- Support Category Lead in developing both, category and sourcing strategies, by forecasting demand, analyzing industry trends, understanding vendor landscape, etc.
- Develop negotiation strategies for all the key sourcing projects under the guidance of Category Lead
- Examine supplier's industry position and cost-structure, identify trends in supply market, develop cost-tear downs for key sourcing requests
- Optimize sourcing and ordering schedule by assessing demand drivers
- Minimize the potential risks to reduce supply chain uncertainties and shocks (through laid-out risk mitigation strategies)

Cross Functional Collaboration:

- Coordinate with business, sales and other stakeholders for effective demand planning and monitor the actual requirements against plan

- Interact with business teams to identify and optimize technical/ functional specifications under the guidance of Category Lead

- Facilitate ongoing collaboration between the Business teams, Operations team, Enablers team and Logistics team

- Support implementation of Ariba, SAP S/4 HANA and any other procurement tools

Supplier Management:

- Monitor supplier performance against the targets defined as per SRM and provide necessary support (wherever required)

- Collaborate with suppliers regularly and drive tangible additional value from relationship through joint cost reduction initiatives

- Interact frequently with the suppliers to identify issues and potential areas for improvement

- Provide support for vendor registration and qualification process (if required), completing all necessary checks and verifications as outlined under the SCM Policy

Strategy Execution:

- Execute sourcing strategies for all the sourcing requirements inputs (if any) to act as a feedback in the overall sourcing/ category strategy

- Lead end-to-end sourcing process (including RFP/RFQ process) for all sourcing initiatives defined as per sourcing plan

- Develop evaluation criteria, and evaluate tender responses, with guidance from Category Lead

- Lead the implementation of negotiated contracts and monitor contractual compliance of executed contracts

- Drive catalog creation (where possible) for direct purchase by increasing standardization of products/ services within the category

- Interact with users for demand forecasting and increasing awareness regarding catalog based ordering

- Adopt best practices for strategic sourcing and discern specific nuances of the contract that provide an edge in negotiations (e.g. TCO vs purchasing price)

- Prioritize placement of PO in cases of urgent requests with guidance from Category Lead

- Monitor on-time delivery against all open POs to ensure timely receipt of orders

- Support Query Resolution team in resolution of queries associated with invoiced amounts, delivery, etc. wherever required