Job Description

Country: India (IN)
Location: Chennai,
Location details:

At Konecranes, we believe that great customer experience is built on the people behind the Konecranes name - people committed to providing our customers with lifting equipment and services that lift their businesses. Everything we do, we do with passion and drive.

We believe diversity drives business success and is the foundation for our growth. We welcome different backgrounds and skills that enrich our community and we promote a place where we can ALL be ourselves. This is what makes Konecranes a unique place to work.

Education Required: Graduation/Post Graduation/PGDBM

Professional Experience Required (Max - Min.): 5~2 years

General Job description:

Work collaboratively with stakeholders and support the category management of supply performance for specific categories of spend and risk to ensure optimal business outcomes for Konecranes Business.

Utilise supply knowledge of specific categories of spend to provide support, guidance and expert advice to stakeholders with a view to shaping demand requirements - to achieve organisational savings, manage risk and/or introduce improved performance & innovation. Support the development and management of a category sourcing programme that delivers savings and efficiencies to Indirect category. Develop and implement strategies to manage procurement risk, integrate organisational policies into procurement practice, and measure and analyse corporate spend and savings data in specific categories of spend. Manage strategic contract relationships with suppliers that promote development of individual suppliers and markets to ensure indirect category receives best value for money and continuous improvement over the life of contracts in specific categories of spend. As a member of the Procurement Business Group, you are collectively accountable for delivering our goals and objectives.

Key Role

• Design and develop insights related to the Productivity metrics (Spend & Savings)
• Utilize analytical, statistical, and programming skills to collect, analyze and interpret large scale data sets
• Conduct market research to support future business planning
• Prepare planning guide to facilitate the completion of the negotiation and support where needed
• Support initiatives / projects in the company that may affect organization\'s performance and collaborate with necessary stakeholders
• The primary responsibility is to perform extensive research on the supply-demand-price of the select commodities on a global basis and build forecast models based on the collected information.
• Extraction of information/content extraction through the sources of information (through Primary and secondary research) Identification of various drivers of the commodity under research - cost/demand/price drivers.

Technical Competence:

• QlikView / Power BI or similar reporting system knowledge will be an added asset
• Strong project management experience & exposure to data management tools
• Excellent numerical accuracy and agility
• Profound Knowledge of SAP environments and extraction of data
• Ability to prepare and deliver training materials
• Good Knowledge in Procurement and supply chain
• Implementation and communication of new dashboards, planning actions related to findings
• Statistical tools like R and Python can be an added advantage.

Functional & Behavioral Skills:

• Experience in handling global stakeholders and day-to-day operational requests from the business
• Problem solvers, who are flexible and creative in finding solutions
• Strong quantitative skills with ability to successfully manage multiple tasks
• Very strong communication with influencing and networking skills
• Self-starters, Self-motivated and can work independently, with minimal direction/ independently alone or as part of a small team
• Flexible, collaborative approach is mandatory
• Critical and analytical thinking
• Positive attitude with quality mindset
• Makes logical leaps as well as incremental steps
• Ability to quickly learn and taking initiatives.

Role and Responsibility:

• Deep dive into different data sets and highlight the pattern of spend
• Create visibility in spend leakages & drive to optimize the supply base
• Highlight the opportunities to drive the savings through leveraging the volume between the suppliers
• Track the save & spend ratio and report the same to the Procurement teams
• Provide analytical support to optimize the spend with category managers
• Develop the simulation models to get the optimal prices for supplier managers/category managers
• Analyze and present complex data into meaningful decision-making information
• Develop analytics dashboard & support with actionable insights
• Analyze & highlight the Categories with tail spend
• Propose framework to drive supply base optimization models
• Ensure to support the process owners in the ad-hoc requests.
• Awareness of ISO 14001 & 45001

Key Behavioral Skills

Lead our Future

Embrace sustainable change to deliver desired change outcomes. Identifies and takes ownership of opportunities presented through ambiguous situations, generating creative ideas/solutions. Challenges the status quo to simplify, rationalise or develop business processes or services to meet the needs of our internal/external customers.

Empower our People

Two-way - Communicates openly and confidently. Motivates and influences others in a way that results in acceptance and agreement.

Add Value for our Customers

Make it easy for our customer/community by proactively anticipating internal and external needs - collaborating to build valued and trusted relationships through the delivery of high-quality service. Recognises the importance of teamwork to achieve outcomes; brings in ideas, information, suggestions, and expertise from others outside the immediate team.

Deliver on the Promise

Acts with integrity & Achievement focussed. Shows energy and resilience. Takes personal accountability for achieving individual and shared outcomes. Sets robust plans well in advance and initiates action to move work forward. Achievement focused. Takes personal accountability for achieving individual and shared outcomes. Sets robust plans well in advance and initiates action to move work forward. Adjusts actions to respond and capitalise on changing circumstances. Manages time effectively, monitoring performance against deadlines and milestones. . Shows energy and resilience. Is authentic, approachable open and honest.

What we can offer you.

• Work in a global environment
• Competitive Salary
• Work-Life balance
• Innovative and dynamic working environment
• Support of an excellent Global Team
• Possibility to work in leading crane building company with leading technology.

Konecranes is a world-leading group of Lifting Businesses\xe2\x84\xa2, serving a broad range of customers. We are truly a global company with 16,900 employees at 600 locations in 50 countries. For over 80 years, we have been dedicated to improving the efficiency and performance of businesses in all types of industries. We believe that sustainable growth is a result of a strong responsible performance. Konecranes is committed to ensuring that all employees and job applicants are treated fairly in an environment which is free from any form of discrimination.

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