Job Description

Country: India (IN)
Location: Chennai, Tamil N\xc4\x81du (IN-TN)
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.

Location: India

Education Required: Graduation/Post Graduation/PGDBM

Professional Experience Required (Max - Min.): 12~10 years

• Minimum 8 years\' experience - preferably in the given industry segments - Manufacturing, OEM, Retail - CPG, Services, Telecom etc.
• 4 years of demonstrated work experience in any 1 or 2: Category Management, Sourcing, Source-To-Pay across Shared Services or Global Business Services or Center of Excellence
• Min 3 years of demonstrated work experience in people management having direct supervision of people.

General Job description

Goal setting, management of Procurement analysis/analytics activities, and ensuring the centre achieves its results and objectives in a timely manner. Day to day tasks within the objectives and KPIs with direct and considerable impact through own work to the Global Procurement Function. Proactive problem solving with can do attitude by existing/continuous improvement of global processes /working methods to make it lean and more efficient. Influence communication with global stakeholders with facts and data to get better alignment.

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
• Determine standard costs and investigate variances with actual costs
• Help management make important decisions based on costs and benefits (e.g. investments, market growth, pricing changes)
• Forecast and analyze costs of processes, labor and inventory
• Suggest cost-reducing or profitable solutions
• Conduct market research to support future business planning
• Prepare planning guide to facilitate the completion of the negotiation and support where needed
• Conduct opportunity assessments, benchmarking, and should cost modeling to develop sourcing opportunities
• Prepare category improvement projections and conduct post-implementation variance analysis
• Identify total internal costs associated with supplier price, delivery, operations and quality
• Determination of the economic behaviour of the supply/demand/price of the commodity.
• Competitive analysis of major suppliers of the commodity.
• Providing inputs towards price forecasts (quantitative information/factors to support the price forecast of the commodity
• Provide data driven solutions to business challenges
• Use predictive modelling to increase and optimize Procurement organization spend
• Development and productizing the analysis in relation to global operations of Procurement for standard offering
• Ensure accuracy and structure in procurement data.

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.

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.

Role and Responsibility

• Gather market intelligence to support respective category including 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
• Understand and establish category requirements, development of sourcing strategy that meet the needs of the organization, while providing synergy in process and savings.
• 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

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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