Wipro - Assistant Manager - Purchasing - Manpower Services

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

Drive global/regional supply strategies for Wipro IT business across all the Geographies for the Telecom categories

Purchasing & Contracting of Manpower & Contract Hiring Services.

- International Sourcing & understanding Global supplier database

- Knowledge about International labor laws and regulations including minimum wages

- Awareness about industry trends and benchmarking on technical skill rates globally

Procurement Services: Involved in activities like RFP/RFQ, offer receipt, Evaluation of Vendor Packages, Techno-commercial evaluation, Benchmarking, Negotiation, Finalization of order, contracting strategy, release purchase order/work order etc.

- Leverage the spend and deliver annual savings through negotiations and innovative supply strategies

- Empanel in best in class suppliers in services procurement area and help them to grow their business with Wipro

- Negotiate contracts and ensure Wipro's interest are protected in the market place

- Develop & analyze various options and present alternative solutions to sourcing needs.

- Able to do internal process mapping and develop improvement plans

- Responsible for supplier relationship & performance management, Partner with the business leadership & clients to enable short and long term strategies

- Ensure all the strategies and subsequent procurement are done in accordance with the procurement policy

- Ability to learn new technologies and able to do change management effectively

- Conduct RFPs to determine the right supplier and ensure the best overall value is obtained for the company

- Stakeholder expectation management

- Cross functional collaboration with finance and other functions

- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, minimum at experienced level.

Experience:

- Graduate or a MBA with 6-10 years of Strategic Sourcing experience with reputed companies

Skills Required:

- Strategic Sourcing expertise

- Category knowledge

- Contract Management

- Good Analytical skills

- Supply chain systems/tools knowledge

- Stakeholder Management

- SAP MM

- Good Written and Oral communication skills

- Ability to learn new things quickly.

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