Overview - Sourcing & Supplier Management creates and maximizes shareholder value by effectively managing the MasterCard supply base across all business units, focusing on reducing cost & risk while improving value & supplier performance. - This organization includes Regional Sourcing, Sourcing Centre of Excellence and Category Management and is on a journey to be recognized as a premier supply chain organization. - Leverages MasterCard's global demand to develop and implement strategies that enable spend management, improve supplier performance, and mitigate risk. - Partners with Business Stakeholders to develop regional sourcing strategy, category expertise, market conditions, industry trends, product knowledge, benchmarking, and emerging supply options. - Partners amongst Sourcing & Supplier Management to develop supplier strategies that will reduce risk, improve supplier performance while enabling supplier diversity and innovation Role - Collaborate with internal business partners to identify requirements and develop strategies for key categories and critical suppliers - Drive the financial and risk conversations with your internal business partners from a sourcing perspective to ensure compliance to sourcing policy and achieve financial efficiencies Responsibilities - Supports Regional Sourcing with supply base needs, handles more complex categories - Manages sourcing strategy, sourcing operations and supplier relations to reduce costs and risks while improving value and supplier performance - Develops category strategy for business unit and/or market strategies that enable spend management, improve supplier performance and mitigates risk - Assists sourcing operations to provide category expertise by providing updates on market conditions, industry trends, product knowledge and emerging supply options - Manages the strategic sourcing process by analyzing spend, defining requirements, developing strategy, authoring RFx's and negotiating contracts All About You - Strong relationship-building skills and the ability to work with people at all levels in the organization - Innovative thinking, strong ability to identify sourcing opportunities and implement effectively - Proven ability to rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals in a fast-paced, changing environment - Ability to organize, manage and work effectively to accomplish multiple tasks - Very strong analytical skills - Strong verbal and written communication skills in English - Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) - Experience in a strategic sourcing role in a best-in-class organization preferred - Extensive internal and external communication skills required with operations, corporate personnel, and external suppliers - Advanced contract negotiation experience and training - Experience with Coupa sourcing systems is preferred - Bachelor's degree required, MBA or Master's degree strongly preferred Job Specific Experiences - Experience managing supply chains across multiple business units, reducing costs and risks while improving value and efficiencies - Demonstrated strong ability to influence and manage senior stakeholder relationships internally and externally - Demonstrated experience in managing marketing and corporate services categories - Experience participating on global category teams to implement strategies on spend management, supplier performance and risk mitigation - Experience supporting and enabling supply chain transformation efforts and strategic initiatives Broadening Experiences - Managed major elements of large, cross-functional projects - Demonstrated consistent success working with partners across other business units in support of cross-functional programs - Experience providing regular feedback to team members and resolving performance issues - Experience interacting and communicating with executives to provide updates and recommendations on supply chain management - Successfully develops a baseline understanding of Mastercard products

Gurgaon/Gurugram

Pune

MasterCard - Strategic Sourcing Role 

Job Description for MasterCard - Strategic Sourcing Role  in Mastercard India Services Private Limited in  Gurgaon/Gurugram Pune for (9-15) years of experience. Apply Now!