Assistant Manager/Manager - Contract Management - Strategic Sourcing

- Contract management experience of 3-8 years

- Should be from sourcing and procurement background

- Good communication skill

- Sound understanding on contract red lines by supplier, legal, data privacy office etc., (Preferable)

- Strong negotiation skills(Must)

- Contract signing experience (Preferable)

- Any supply chain management certification (Preferable)

- Work closely with Client and Head Of Procurement to lead procurement transformation programs and deliver business impact with high customer happiness

- Implementation and optimization of Procurement Process, Ariba Management Tools and No PO No Pay Policy.

- Analyzing the Purchase trend as per the defined Categories, preparation of Analysis Report, Analyzing past data, future renewals and Forecasting future requirements for hassle free production and cost savings

- Drafting and Negotiating contracts; drive the preparation of proposal documents, statement of works (SOWs), quotations and bids with pertinent specifications, terms and conditions dedicated

- Work on Global/Local MSA, Sponsorship agreements, SOW- s, Secondments, Renewals, Amendments, Terminations.

- Preparing and circulating Contract expiry reports and sending expiry notifications to all the concerned people including partners. This helps in the Contract extensions or contract closures/terminations.

- Preparing and circulating multiple critical reports which helps clients in decision making

- Commercials and Contract negotiations with suppliers as per company policy and award business to selected supplier

- Work on Buying activities which are assigned as Projects.

Preferred qualifications :

- Strong customer-centric focus, relationship management with key partners, persuasive, negotiating, proactive and can-do attitude a must

- Good command of MS Office Tools (i.e. excel, ppt)

- Exposure to ERP systems (Oracle / SAP / Ariba / Emptor is any other S&P tools is positive)

Qualifications:

Minimum qualifications :

- Relevant work experience in a sourcing role preferably with indirect services experience

- Business knowledge and day to day understanding Sourcing and Procurement activities

- Good communication and analytical skills.

- Strong analytics skills