Senior Manager - Sourcing and Procurement (Non IT)
S2P cycle for Indirect categories, Non-IT & Projects (Supplier discovery, RFx, Negotiations, Contracting & PO, Services & Material receipt, Vendor pay & Vendor performance management)
Indirect Categories : Project spend, Admin, Marketing & PR, Real estate, Facility mgmt., Transportation, warehousing, HR, Legal, Finance, Govt liaison, R&D spend. And any other amorphous and non-conventional spend
Global operations (Presenting local capabilities, Process migration, Agreeing benchmarks & delivery, Proving value-adds, managing international clients)
Team Management & development
Innovations New technology, Efficient processes, Lower costs, Higher productivity, Paradigm concepts etc
ERP Well versed with SOPs from Source 2 Pay, Sourcing tools, Convert manual processes to ERP (MS Dynamics, Ariba, Zycus will be advantage)
Vendor Management Evaluation, Audits, Performance tracking, Payments
Documentation relating to above
Preferably MBA+Engineering qualification (Teir 1/2 college only)
Approx 13-17 years of experience.
As a Senior Manager - Sourcing, This role is responsible to manage the team & sourcing activities such as tactical buying, bidding, contract management and supplier management for any of the indirect categories especially as mentioned above, while some experience on IT spend & Spend analysis will be added advantage
The detailed responsibilities would include as indicated below;
Manage and perform product or service Sourcing activities such as;
Stakeholder & Demand management Liaising with the business stakeholder to gather/seek the scope of work/Product specifications as per the ongoing demand or review periodically the demand forecast planned by business.
Supplier discovery & identification Evaluate the incumbent supplier or perform market research through a RFI to identify new/potential supplier.
Market intelligence and benchmarking for strategic sourcing and procurement of commodities.
Initiate RFP/RFQ based on the scope of work/Product specifications/BOM
Manage the bidding process, vendor response consolidation & techno-commercial evaluation
Evaluation and negotiation of TCO and the business terms and conditions including requirement specific SLA.
Drive cost savings, competitive pricing and lower TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)
Generate Purchase Orders, follow-up with vendors on fulfillment, invoicing, GRN & Payment-assurance.
Vendor performance management, Supplier visits and quality audits
Driving Innovations, and value-stream analysis with key suppliers
Global Operations
Solicit and migrate business processes from global operations into India
Agree the benchmarks and develop local capability to deliver them
Regular presentations to Global stakeholders on status, improvements, value-adds
Communication with Interntational stakeholders on regular basis to share progress
Team Management
Hire right talent to deliver all the above
Manage & Grow team from motivation and engagement perspective
Develop capability of Global exposure and agility
Contract Management
Liaise with the internal legal attorney to evaluate the requirement of a legal contract/agreement for the engagement of a vendor based on the scope, criticality of the product/service and the risk exposure.
Interface between Internal legal and vendor legal to support in attaining a mutually agreed agreement and assist in execution of agreement.
Review the contracts/agreements periodically to ensure the contract renewals/terminations are executed to support the ongoing business requirements.
Supplier Management
Evaluate and assess the suppliers periodically to categorize and manage the strategic suppliers/partners through business reviews conducted monthly or quarterly to align with the contract SLAs/delivery terms & conditions and also be a part of the operational review meetings conducted by business stakeholders.
Create and maintain a suppler performance management system
Policy and Procedure
Adhered to the pre-defined Policies, procedures and governance model for purchasing and sourcing function in line with the global purchasing policy.
Participate in the internal and external and audits periodically and report the findings to take necessary action to ensure compliance and adherence to the policy. The Purchasing policy covers area such as Bidding, Vendor Evaluation, Vendor assessment, Bidding/RFx process, PO and Contract Governance etc.
Automation
Convert manual processes to automated thru ERP (MS Dynamics/ SAP/ Oracle)
Automate sourcing thru tools (Ariba, Coupa, Zycus), and cataloguing
Innovations
Technology to improve productivity
Spend analytics
Newer concepts and market research
Industry networking Vendors, Colleagues, Peers, Govt bodies etc
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