Category Sourcing Leader

India Category Leader

About the Client: The client is a global leader in business process and technology management services that leverages the power of smarter processes, smarter analytics and smarter technology to help its clients drive intelligence across the enterprise. The company offers a broad portfolio of enterprise G&A and industry specific services, coupled with strong IT, analytics and reengineering. The organization is listed on NYSE and delivers its services from a global network of centers, spanning across 16 countries with 55,000+ professionals catering to more than 600 clients.

No. of Roles: 2 (1: Category Leader for Travel and 1: Category Leader for Marketing)

Job Title: India Category Leader

Level: VP / AVP

Function: Practice Source to Pay (S2P)

Scope of Role:

- This is a unique and new role within the organization which will bring category sourcing expertise in spend which will enable the organization to develop the best sourcing strategy to maximize value for its clients.

- The role will help the organization in building credibility with prospective clients in addition to having effective stakeholder engagement with the existing clients.

Responsibilities:

1. Deliver and manage multiple client projects related to spend category.

2. Supply Market Analysis for spend category

3. Identify Savings opportunities for respective category spend across all clients and deliver on Savings targets

4. Category and sourcing strategy for spend under category

5. Participate in stakeholder discussions

6. Lead supplier negotiations

7. Drive spend under management

8. Owns savings commitment across projects

9. Building of category playbook and process improvement

10. Build next layer of category experts in the respective areas

11. Develop a database of case studies for the impact made for clients on the respective category spend

12. Increase reference able client base and leverage the same to bring more spend under management and projects in the area of Travel and Marketing category

13. Build brand identity for the organization in the market as the premier sourcing and category management service provider by representation at events, authoring papers, thought leadership in appropriate forums

14. Support pre-sales activities including proposals and presentations for relevant opportunities

15. Support revenue growth by working closely with sales and BD teams

Years of Experience: 10 – 18 years

Education

- Graduate with MBA from Institute of repute

Certification

- CPM from ISM (Desirable)

- Six Sigma certification (Desirable)

Please write back at debasmita.dutta@futurestep.com incase you are keen to explore the opportunity.