PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Accountabilities:

Major Activities:

Operations Management:

- 10-12 years of experience in Procurement Function for US & UK Geographies

- Candidates with prior experience from Aviation, Hospitality industry will be preferred

- Prior Experience in Sourcing & dealing with US & UK supplier would be added advantage

- Effective negotiating and influencing skills - Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Identification & Negotiations, Time to Market, Cost Effective Purchases

- Understanding of supply chain concepts, with work experience applying those follow-on strategies

- Creates and manages value strategies, RFPs, negotiations, and contracts while developing and promoting strategic partnerships with suppliers

- Works closely with internal Unifi customers and stakeholders to understand their business needs, objectives, product/service requirements and the broader operational processes

- Skilled in Microsoft Office (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

- A potential team leader with effective communication skills

- Comprehension of business contract structure

- Self-directed and resourceful with the ability to handle multiple, simultaneous tasks with exhibited follow through and initiative

- Business understanding, particularly in project management, early supplier involvement, total cost management and financial analysis

- Understanding and use of technical tools for analysis, problem solving, forecasting and quality improvement

- Previous experience with Source to Pay systems

- Highest of ethical standards

- Responsible for the accuracy, reliability, and timeliness of financial and management information.

- Ensures timely completion/ adherence to all applicable legal / statutory audit requirements.

- Ensure the team fully complies with internal company controls and reports on a timely and correct basis to the Internal Control

- Manage and supervise team members to ensure tasks are completed in an accurate and timely manner.

- Regularly track and resolve outstanding issues that have been escalated, or further escalate to the necessary parties.

- Implement best practices for the processes and proactively identify, propose and implement continuous improvement opportunities in existing processes within the team.

- Managing the day-to-day work activities of the team and ensuring the necessary skills and experience are available to meet the challenges of a demanding and complex workload.

- Other duties as assigned

Transition Support:

- Providing transition support of processes by bringing in shared service specific knowledge & best practices for smooth implementation and execution.

- Actively participating in all migration & deployment activities including training material preparation & delivery, service rehearsal testing, go-live readiness and support structure establishment.

- Providing active post go-live support to FSS Procurement team during the stabilization phase.

Team Management

- Carry out team management responsibilities in accordance with the organizations policies and applicable laws, including:

- Plan, assign and direct work.

- Appraise performance; provide feedback and coaching, and reward and discipline employees.

- Provide opportunities for learning and self-development and facilitate the development of technical competencies.

- Continuously strive to build a culture of high-performance.

- Facilitate effective teamwork and builds collaborative relationships internally and externally

Service Excellence

- Ensuring that overall delivery of services to Customers meets or exceeds agreed KPIs and SLAs defined and is within a strong internal control framework.

Partner with the Service Management team to:

- Develop and track Service Level Agreements (SLA) to ensure service delivery excellence.

- Provide input to service reporting.

- Facilitate service transition when required.

- Ensure that Internal Customer and Supplier issues are dealt with in accordance with the escalation process and push back where this is not the case.

- Build customer relationship, drive confidence & improve customer happiness

Innovation and Continuous Improvement

- Create a mindset of innovation aimed at constantly challenging the norm to drive business value.

- Responsible for ensuring a disciplined approach to operational excellence/performance management is in place and evolves over time.

- Driving ongoing continuous improvement to improve profitability.

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:

Skills:

- Hands-on experience in accounting ERPs is must with good knowledge across Procurement Function

- Ability to think strategically, taking a balanced short and long-term view when solving problems.

- Result oriented, with high level of motivation for self-growth, along with the drive for growing team members and overall organization.

- Ability to utilize information from a wide variety of sources.

- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills and ability to communicate effectively.

- Experience of working in Aviation, Hospitality, industry will be added advantage.

- US ET shift working with some stretch during peak days

Educational Qualification

- Bachelor/ Masters Degree in Commerce

- MBA Finance from a Reputed Institute

Experience

- 10 - 12 years of experience in managing a client-service oriented function,

- Minimum of 3 years of experience in leading, developing and coaching team members