Procurement Operations Associate

Procurement Practice Associate

Skill required: Procurement Operations - Procurement Support
Designation: Procurement Practice Associate
Qualifications:Any Graduation
Years of Experience:1 to 3 years
About Accenture
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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. Procurement Operations involve the process of acquiring goods and services that a business needs to operate. This includes identifying needs, selecting suppliers, negotiating contracts, and managing purchase orders. The goal is to obtain quality products at the best possible prices while ensuring timely delivery. Effective procurement operations help control costs, maintain supply chain efficiency, and support overall business objectives. They are essential for the smooth functioning of any organization. Analyze and design the best practices for tactical and transactional procurement processes. Plan implementation based on detailed understanding of technologies involved and best practice process output measures. Provide the setup and ongoing maintenance of suppliers, catalog content, user authorization data and procurement applications to provide efficient and effective transactions, and to help maximize compliance."
What are we looking for? "• Responsible for managing client relationships and providing first line support for all users regarding sourcing enquiries within the applied application to achieve SLA targets and maintain the appropriate control environment. • Ensure effective customer and supplier relationships and serves as initial escalation point for issue resolution • Responsible for supplier selection, negotiation with suppliers, research and identification of possible vendors, reporting lost savings etc. • Maintain close relationships with clients to understand requirements • Validate and approve submitted requisitions as well as approving requisition submissions • Analysis of client spending trends • Manage and execute the spot buying process for general, low to mid-level spend categories • Manage specifications, using the client-specified standards and agreement templates, for the provision of specific goods or services in line with the business needs of the client. • Completion of quoting process including supplier selection from pre-selected suppliers • Completion of buying process initiated by the user including supplier selection from pre-selected suppliers. • Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem solving environment • Ability to work comfortably with all levels of the organization • Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment • Self-starter, multi-task, flexible, demonstrating initiative and confidence • Thorough/detailed approach to work • The ideal candidate must possess a desire to learn and deliver as a true team player • Proven ability to work independently and as a team member, with success contributing to a team-oriented environment • Excellent communication skills written and verbal including formal presentation skills (needs to be able to build relationships over the phone without meeting suppliers / customers on a regular basis) • Good organizational, multi-tasking, and time management skills • Adaptable communication ability to conform to the varied corporate cultures and organizational structures of our customers "
Roles and Responsibilities: "•In this role you are required to solve routine problems, largely through precedent and referral to general guidelines • Your expected interactions are within your own team and direct supervisor • You will be provided detailed to moderate level of instruction on daily work tasks and detailed instruction on new assignments • The decisions that you make would impact your own work • You will be an individual contributor as a part of a team, with a predetermined, focused scope of work • Please note that this role may require you to work in rotational shifts "