Consultant - Procurement Transformation - Pune

The Consulting business at KPMG Global Services (KGS) is a diverse team of more than 6400 professionals. We provide consulting services to KPMG Firms worldwide to support the business transformation journeys of clients across industries. Our colleagues help clients explore potential obstacles to change and collaborate on critical decisions that can deliver real value to their businesses.

Through your work, you’ll build a global network and unlock opportunities that you may not have thought possible with access to great support, vast resources, and an inclusive, supportive environment to help you reach your full potential.

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ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

 • Delivering outsourcing & business services advisory client engagements as an extension of the onshore team. Work directly with the onshore engagement lead from onshore/offshore on client deliverables • Typical engagements are about advising KPMG clients on one or more areas of the sourcing life cycle including but not limited to - Sourcing strategy - Business case support and evaluation activities - RFP preparation and sourcing process management - Service Provider capability assessments & selection - Contracting and negotiation support - Shared services health check - Transition Planning including KT approach, scheduling, governance and resourcing as well as support for transition execution - Process Improvement and transformation • Collect and analyse client data to develop key performance metrics (KPIs) and use the same to build an industry view on trends, pricing models, performance, practices and approaches • Work with onshore teams to help create propositions for their markets and thus help differentiate the firm in the market e.g. harvest IP/insights from the existing knowledge • Actively participate in practice development activities through: - Support for market insight research, surveys and reports - Providing the business services team with a greater insight and understanding of KGS propositions and capabilities. Conducting benchmarking studies to determine performance trends in ITO/BPO services and help the team to create a repository of benchmarking data across service lines

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS • 

- Consulting firms including Big 4 in advisory roles or - Experience in pre-sales / transition / operations roles - Global Business Services (GBS) centres or Shared Services Centres (SSC) of large multinational companies in Contract Management / Vendor Management / Operations / Transition roles • Should have experience in - Working on outsourcing projects for global clients in business process areas (Finance/Procurement/HR) with knowledge of at least one of the business processes - Transition related activities including planning, knowledge transfer approach, stakeholder management, risk management, scope management, tracking deliverables, team management and PMO for Shared Services or BPO engagements. - RFP drafting, RFP Analysis, Bid Management, Pricing, Contract Management, - Working in a global environment across diverse cultures & time zones • Experience in following areas would be a plus - Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) & Digital - Robotics and automation - Financial modelling and business case development • Effective communication, presentation and networking skills with the ability to articulate analyses and recommendations in a coherent manner • The person should be a self-starter • Willingness to travel when required

>> QUALIFICATION

 • Graduate / Postgraduate degree from a Tier 1/Tier 2 institute. MBA Preferred. • SELECTION PROCESS • 2 rounds of interviews with Procurement and Outsourcing Advisory (POA) team locally and a final round with the Partner of the onshore practice (if needed