GEP - Sourcing Lead - Competitive Bidding - Walk-in Drive - 3 Aug

Address -

Mind Space Building No.3,

701 Airoli, 3rd Floor,

MIDC Thane Belapur Road,

Near Times of India,

Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra 400708

Phone: 022 61372100

Date and Time - 3rd August, 10 am - 1 pm

Contact Person - Mathew Paul (Senior Manager-HR) & Vineata Srivastava (Senior Associate-HR)

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GEP is a diverse, creative team of people passionate about procurement. We invest ourselves entirely in our clients- success, creating strong collaborative relationships that deliver extraordinary value year after year. We deliver practical, effective procurement services and procurement technology that enable procurement leaders to maximize their impact on business operations, strategy and financial performance.

- Honored as Best Supplier at the EPIC Procurement Excellence Awards, GEP regularly wins accolades as both a provider of a broad range of procurement services and innovative procurement software.

- Among its recent distinctions, GEP has been named Leader and Star Performer in Everest Group's PEAK Matrix of Procurement Services Providers, Leader in NelsonHall's NEAT Matrix of Global Procurement BPO Service Providers, Winner in the HfS Blueprint Report on Procurement Outsourcing Providers, Leader in the Kennedy / ALM Vanguard Report on Procurement Consulting,as well as one of Spend Matters 50 Companies to Know and to the Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100.

- Clark, NJ-based GEP has 12 offices and operations centers in Europe, Asia and the Americas.

- To learn more about our comprehensive range of consulting and outsourcing services, please visit www.gep.com. For more about SMART by GEP, our cloud-native sourcing and procurement software platform, please visit www.smartbygep.com

Role :

About the function / Business Line : Outsourcing

Job Location : Airoli, Navi Mumbai

Position Title : Sourcing Lead

Experience : 3-5 years

Key Result Areas/Job Description :

- Monitor and research trends in the industry as well as - Best Practices and pursue and adopt these as appropriate for assigned commodity area.

- Solicits bids, leads auctions, negotiates with suppliers, makes recommendations, qualifies and contracts with new vendor

- Manage internal customer relationships by leading cross functional sub-category teams, developing deep category knowledge and to aggressively track and improve non-compliance with preferred supplier(s)

- Should have handled team of min 10 - 15 members.

- Maintain good level of public relations with outside suppliers as well as a strong partnership with internal stakeholders

- Manage and optimize functional sourcing support activities while ensuring adherence to client's corporate standards.

- Draft and/or evaluate scorecards. Conduct complex supplier's performance validation events and drive improvement initiatives.

- Conduct complex/adhoc supplier profiling and financial risk assessment. Should be able to do industry benchmarking and market intelligence reports independently.

Required Competencies :

- Knowledge of project management and sourcing

- Financial analysis and quantitative skills

- Business acumen: Understanding how markets work

- Change Mgmt. Skills: Effective influencer who can make persuasive arguments

- Negotiation skills includes building eAuction strategies

Excellent communication : written and verbal

- Familiarity with Microsoft office suites, Outlook, ERP/ P2P systems knowledge(RQ)