Livspace - Assistant Manager - Procurement

The Indirect Procurement - Manager would need to introduce and execute indirect procurement and sourcing strategies for various categories which may include consulting services, marketing services, IT and telecommunication equipment, systems, and services, financial systems and services, human resource systems, and services, office supplies, equipment, and services, and other indirect categories of goods and services.

- Develop long-term agreements to reduce transactional work to obtain optimal quality, price, and other terms.

- Work with various internal teams to drive procurement processes and strategies to eliminate unmanaged spending.

- Develop and maintain vendor portfolios by on-boarding regional and global suppliers.

- Be responsible for managing the overall vendor management lifecycle.

- Conduct timely supplier performance evaluations.

- Develop and maintain evaluation metrics.

- Focus on negotiating commercial terms and implementing procurement agreements with carriers & suppliers.

- Own the complete source-to-pay process for all indirect purchases of the company.

- Maintain all business metrics and dashboards related to indirect spend analysis.

- Develop category sourcing strategies, including market and industry analysis.

- Develop market rate cards for all possible categories.

- Segment, rationalize and develop a diverse supply base.

- Lead and manage the RFQ, RFP process.

- Collaborate with stakeholders and team members from all regions.

- Establish and maintain supplier relationships, and facilitate periodic business reviews to continually identify process improvements and cost reduction opportunities

- Prepare analyses of spend data, category supplier bases, and cost models

- Manage complex projects from conception through implementation, including change management

- Manage supplier evaluations, performance feedbacks, and churn rates.

External Skills And Expertise:

- Master degree required

- 8-12 years of sourcing experience in a indirect procurement

- Significant expertise in contract negotiation and supplier relationship management

- Excellent problem solving, and communications.

- Ability to provide fact-based strategy and sourcing recommendations

- Experienced user of advanced Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and ERPs