WNS - Senior Group Manager - Procurement

WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), is a leading Business Process Management (BPM) company. We combine our deep industry knowledge with technology and analytics expertise to co-create innovative, digital-led transformational solutions with clients across 10 industries. We enable businesses in Travel, Insurance, Banking and Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods, Shipping and Logistics, Healthcare, and Utilities to re-imagine their digital future and transform their outcomes with operational excellence.

We deliver an entire spectrum of BPM services in finance and accounting, procurement, customer interaction services and human resources leveraging collaborative models that are tailored to address the unique business challenges of each client. We co-create and execute the future vision of 400+ clients with the help of our 44,000+ employees.

- Manage Global IT Procurement.

- Strategic sourcing for the specific categories in IT sections, Experience in dealing with OEMs like Dell, HP, IBM, EMC, Netapp, Cisco, Microsoft etc.

- Managing key critical Projects as per milestone calendars

- To handle Infra Capital and Opex Purchase globally.

- Drive operational excellence and improved performance.

- Devise overall strategy for the respective category to achieve the cost savings and value additions.

- Building a process improvement framework through good business analysis and process optimization techniques.

- Build customer satisfaction through effective Performance and stake holder management

- Build Synergy with key stake holders to enhance the performance and speed of the process

- Managing the team size for the best possible optimization and motivation.

- Planning the Talent Management program for self and team

- Building the culture towards innovation and creativity within the team

- Knowledge about logistics, SCM and Tax compliances.

Required experience:-

- Procurement experience in IT /ITES industry.

- Knowledge of project and program management desirable

- Strong understanding of the Source to pay process in captive environment.

- Very good exposure to ERP implementation / environment as a user; specially Oracle

- Good analytical skills

- Ability to lead teams in the procurement space

- Excellent client relationship skills

- A track record of strong operational delivery managing a large team in Sourcing and Procurement space

- Proven track record of driving change in people and processes, with strong project management, implementation and process improvement skills

- Ability to deal with high levels of ambiguity

- Data driven action orientation, with strong reporting, data analysis, presentation skills, and organizational abilities

- Must have worked in a strategic sourcing environment for at least 5 years.

- Negotiation and communication skills are mandatory

- Performance management skills

- Learn and retain quickly. SOX knowledge desired

- This is an example for reference, kindly edit basis role requirement-

- Graduate/Post Graduate/ Engineer

- MBA

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