Job Description

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ABOUT THE JOB

The CPO team invites application for \xe2\x80\x9cBuyer\xe2\x80\x9d in Americas CPO Team to support the Enterprise procurement spend for Acquired Entities. Individual will have an opportunity to work with a charter to simplify the purchase of goods or services, enhance user/supplier experience, leverage technology, embrace digital, and partner for innovation to add value to our business. The incumbent should have proven experience in Sourcing and procurement, Negotiation, Contract closure, Ariba, SAP and related S2P technologies.

This role also acts as an advisor/consultant for the business and employees of Acquired Entities in Americas region for any source to pay processes and tools

Categories of influence:

The buyer will address spend across categories -

IT Hardware & Software Procurement & Renewals

Cloud Procurement & Data Centre

Professional & Manpower Services

Facilities Management

Marketing Expenses

Area of influence:

Geo Spend and achieve Savings Targets

Governance, Risk and compliance.

S2P Audits.

Supplier Management.

Operational Matrix.

User experience enhancement.

Typical Stakeholder Community:

Acquired Entity Employees/Delivery team, IMG/CIO, User community, Operations team.

Standard role description:

Execute procurement for above stated categories, determine the appropriate approach.

Develops and maintain knowledge of Hardware, Software, Systems Integration Services, Professional & Manpower services, infrastructure, including market dynamics and product life cycles

Negotiates appropriate commercial and contractual arrangements with suppliers

Works closely with Business teams to execute procurements

• 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
• Develop & analyze various options and present alternative solutions to sourcing needs.
• 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
• Stakeholder expectation management
• Cross functional collaboration with finance and other functions
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, minimum at experienced level.

The candidate should be willing to align with the U.S geo time zone.

Major KPIs:

Spend Influence.

On time Payment of Vendors

Enhance User experience

Identify and mitigate risk.

Adhering to Procurement Policy

• Experience

Approx. 8 - 10 Yrs of experience with MNC / Large Corporate in IT HW/Software.

Education

MBA / Graduate

• Personal Skills / Expertise

Good analytical skills with hands on working out Cost comparisons, TCO, Cost Modelling Analysis for quick decision making

Excellent communication skills

Interpersonal and people management skills

Ability to work with Culturally diverse Teams

Leads engagements with minimum interventions

Experience of working on SAP, ARIBA or other ERPs

• Language

English: Fluency in both oral and writing, good in making presentations

• Computer and Software

Fluent with Microsoft Office, Outlook, MIS and Data analysis, PPT, SAP / Ariba

Wipro