Procurement Operations Specialist

Skill required: Procurement Operations - Procurement Practices
Designation: Specialist
Qualifications:Any Graduation
Years of Experience:7 - 11 Years
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What would you do? a Category specialist you are expected to establish, maintain and manage relationship between Stakeholder and suppliers. Accountable for contract management process on behalf of the Business Lead for all deal services as provisioned in the scope of work. Stakeholder Management • Establish communication plan with stakeholders in each category supported, including Business Sponsors MD and CAL • Act as Procurement Expert to guide discussions with stakeholders on program goals, plans and projects • Liaise with multiple departments (Category, Procurement, Legal, SLD, SA, CFM etc) to ensure communication and collaboration with other cross functional teams. Role Expectations Complexity • End to end support provided to business for client deals. • Requires analysis and solving of moderately complex problems. May create new solutions, leveraging and, where needed, adapting existing methods and procedures. • Requires understanding of the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to team goals. • Primary upward interaction is with direct supervisor. May interact with peers and/or management levels at a client and/or within Accenture. Authority • Ability to influence or complete assignments independently and make decisions. • Only requires guidance when determining methods and procedures on new assignments Impact or Decision Impact Scope • End to end Accountability for the sourcing projects
What are we looking for? Category experience should be primarily responsible for client deal services sourcing and category for Technology / Non-Technology segment and should have worked in India in this category for at-least 6- 7 years. Project Management Business acumen Analytics Good communication and articulation ability Ability to visualize and present to a group Critical Thinking Operational Excellence Operations Management Problem Solving Service Quality Management
Roles and Responsibilities: Category Management • Effectively raise issues/concerns proactively and present options for resolution • Ensure adherence to overall governance of company policies and guidelines. • Collaborate with cross functional leads as a team to improve the TAT. • Define sourcing strategy along with functional leads and stakeholders. Contracting • Responsible for negotiating contracts and execute within parameters. • Drive savings on behalf of our business team by conducting opportunity assessments/ risk analysis by utilizing Accenture's category experience • Develop Pipeline spend and savings forecasts for category. • Understand Client deals related procurement policies and work towards improving compliance. • Manage and develop new subcon database with various technology capabilities. • Direct a variety of sourcing objectives including manual negotiations, traditional Request for Proposal (RFP) and various online sourcing opportunities (including competitive bids and complex downward auctions) Execution • Review operational results and identify opportunities for process changes and additional spend savings