Sourcing Lead (Strategic Sourcing)

GEP is a diverse, creative team of people passionate about procurement. We invest ourselves entirely in our client's success, creating strong collaborative relationships that deliver extraordinary value year after year. We deliver practical, effective procurement services and technology that enable procurement leaders to maximize their impact on business operations, strategy and financial performance. Named a Star Performer in Everest Group's Peak Matrix of Procurement Services Providers, Winner in the HfS Blueprint Report on Procurement Outsourcing Providers and to the Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 for nearly a decade, GEP is also ranked a leader on Gartner's Magic Quadrant analysis of the world's top sourcing and procurement software providers. Clark, NJ-based GEP has 10 offices and operations centres in North and South America, Europe and Asia.

About the function / Business Line : Outsourcing

Job Location : Airoli, Navi Mumbai

Position Title : Sourcing Lead

Education : Bachelors (RQ), CPIM, CSCP or CPM certification (PF)

Experience : 4 - 6 years

Shift Timings : 6 PM - 3 AM

Key Result Areas/Job Description :

- Execute Complex and strategic sourcing projects of categories/sub-categories to include: translating business requirements into clear statements of work, solicits bids and leads auctions.

- Should prepare negotiation scripts and negotiate with suppliers, makes recommendations, helps on-board, qualifies and contracts with new vendor and ensures compliance

- Demonstrated ability to apply and translate business expertise to breakthrough thinking that significantly impacts the client's long-term strategic position, thought leaders.

- Manage and optimize functional sourcing support activities while ensuring adherence to client's corporate standards. Provide necessary information input to enablement group

- Engage with internal & external business partners to ensure that decisions are based on the broad scope of the organization and achieve optimum daily execution

- Manage project allocation, support team members during kick off meeting and share best practices

- Monitoring performance satisfaction, ensuring all SLAs accountable for are met and drive continuous improvement initiatives

- Participate in recruitment

Required Competencies :

- Excellent knowledge of project management and sourcing

- Strong Financial analysis and quantitative skills

- Business acumen: Understanding how markets work

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

- Negotiation skills

- Excellent communication written and verbal

- Strong knowledge on Excel, Access, Word; PowerPoint, Outlook, ERP/ P2P systems knowledge

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