Sourcing Lead – Knowledge Services
- Supporting category managers with category strategy plans, sourcing execution, supporting category planning and strategic sourcing tasks
- Leveraging the GEP network of Category Experts and tools, to deliver insights to any project / client.
- Establishing negotiation strategies, identifying and developing negotiation levers, validating them with stakeholders and leading negotiations to ensure savings, timely supply and other benefits for purchases, business analytics, savings reporting and tracking, stakeholder interaction as part of the S2C program
- Discussing with vendors and evaluating their products and capabilities as suppliers;
- Managing all supplier selection and procurement activities (e.g. RFI, RFP, RFQ, Scorecard and Bid Analysis)
- Providing support with respect to Supplier Management/ Procurement processes and policies.
- Demonstrating continuous effort to improve operations, manage SOP's, decrease turnaround times and streamline work processes.
- Identifying and communicating with a diverse range of stakeholders, such as suppliers, project sponsors, end-users and other supporting functions such as HR, Legal and Finance.
- Recruitment & mentorship of junior colleagues.
- Participation in firm building activities.
- If managing direct materials – Execution of operational activities including Long term capacity planning, escalations in operational service & quality issues, material resilience management, price forecasting and business partnering.
- Accurate master data management to the required quality standards.
