About the job:

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following.

- Other duties may be assigned. Should be proficient in Strategic Sourcing: Analyzing spend data, creating internal & external category profiles, Market intelligence reports, Opportunity assessments, devising category strategies, identifying sourcing levers for respective categories, analyzing costing for a product or service, conduct structured supplier negotiations, understand the nuances of contracting and executing the same with suppliers in co-ordination with legal teams, managing statutory compliances and sustainability requirements etc.

- Taking ownership of the activities end to end.

- Prior experience in a client facing role is necessary, should have an eye to detail to be able to work towards increasing efficiency

- Understand the requirements of internal stakeholders & external (Agencies) stakeholders and suggest an appropriate approach and time-based work-plan to achieve the objectives/deliverables.

- Strong analytical skills and problem-solving skills, attention to detail and Analytical mindset with the ability to gather and analyze data, identify trends, and generate actionable insights for process improvement

- Day to day management of procurement activities, managing workloads and priorities, team management and escalating/reporting to leadership as necessary.

- Managing the collection of requests from stakeholders, communicating and documenting the overall progress

- Assist the building of processes to support strategic sourcing initiatives, spot buy purchases and tactical sourcing.

- Manage assigned engagements with suppliers to support wider Category teams

- Analyze buying patterns, volumes to determine appropriate buying channel e. , catalogue, Pcard, PO purchase, etc.

- Providing specialist administrative support from beginning to end of a tendering project/RFP ensuring the integrity of he process.

- Experience working on reputed S2C platforms like Coupa, Scan Market, Ariba, Jaggaer, etc

- Keeping an audit trail for each project and ensuring required documentation is in place.

- Providing a professional, efficient and effective response to stakeholder's queries

- It will be work from Andheri, Mumbai Office

- Candidate should be willing to work in any shift

- Job activities will include supporting internal Stakeholders as well as external clients

Skills, Minimum Requirements, Knowledge:

- Master's degree in business administration

- Minimum 3+ of relevant experience in sourcing analytics with a strong foundation in strategic sourcing

- Demonstrated ability to run competitive bidding processes (RFIs/RFPs/RFQs), manage negotiations, and secure favorable terms

- Experience in categories like MRO, IT, Marketing, Logistics is favorable

- Ability to read and interpret technical specifications and project plans, work closely with stakeholder team

- Other programming experience: Power BI an advantage

- Demonstrate expertise in enhancing and automating sourcing processes

- Ability to motivate, organize and develop team members

- Is highly credible, an effective communicator (written and verbal) and is able to influence senior external vendors and senior internal clients

- Self-starter who can work with minimal supervision and manage a large volume of projects

- Can contribute effectively to and/or co-ordinate cross-functional teams

- Proficiency in using Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) and other relevant software applications like SAP , BE AWARE OF FRAUD: When applying for a job at Jabil you will be contacted via correspondence through our official job portal with a jabil.com e-mail address; direct phone call from a member of the Jabil team; or direct e-mail with a jabil.com e-mail address.

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