(IND) SENIOR MANAGER, PROCUREMENT

Position Summary...Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and ensuring diversity awareness. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.

What you'll do...

Our Company

We help people around the world save money and live better -- anytime and anywhere -- in retail stores, online and through their mobile devices. Each week more than 265 million customers and members visit our approximately 11500 stores under 56 banners in 27 countries and e-commerce websites. With last fiscal year 2020 revenues of USD 559 billion and 2.2 million employees worldwide, Walmart is simply the largest retail business in the world. And, we also happen to be number one in Fortune 500 list.

About team:

Global Procurement team is creating sustainable competitive advantage through flawless execution strategy Which involves co-ordination and integration of business needs, best suppliers, set up best practices with support of spend analysis. Our focus is to continuously grow talent with diversity, build world class hiring programs, build world class supply base management, deliver value and protect the company.

What you will do:

You will be a part of the Global Procurement supporting in the Professional Services (Technology and Non-Technology). As a part of this team you will be responsible for supporting and aligning with business initiatives, organization goals, and actions focused on sourcing projects. An individual in this position will be expected to perform additional job-related responsibilities and duties as assigned and/or necessary.

• Leading negotiation – Supports supplier negotiations by creating cost models of different contract variables (for example, implementation costs and travel and expense costs); running scenarios to determine business benefits; assessing range of negotiation outcomes; and executing defined negotiation strategies to ensure business needs are met.

• Category Management: Manages a spend of ~ $200M and provides subject matter expertise to drive the development of sourcing and procurement strategy by working with Category Team to identify internal business need; aligning sourcing process to the category strategies; developing and compiling request for Information (RFIs) and request for proposal (RFPs); summarize RFI and RFP responses to help the business assess supplier ability to meet business needs; collaborating with cross-functional teams (for example, suppliers, category managers, legal, finance, accounting) to ensure clarification of requirement; providing input based on the end-to-end sourcing process; and presenting information and findings to negotiating teams to drive negotiation strategy development.
• Team Management: Lead a team of 3-5-member team, manage their training and development needs, manage operations, and execute 60-75% purchase requisitions in each category.
• Developing supplier relationships – Participates in supplier selection and justification of supplier selection by partnering with stakeholders through conducting a comprehensive analysis of data from multiple sources; developing comparisons of supplier responses to normalize submissions; presenting the conclusions in an easy to understand and actionable manner; and creating quantification and documentation of savings to support business goals.
• Stakeholder Management: Manages multiple project initiatives for supplier sourcing to achieve desired results by ensuring understanding of scope of work; organizing timelines and deliverables; working with cross-functional teams to ensure timelines related to sourcing and contract goals are met; taking corrective action to address any issues, and reporting results and deliverables to supervisors and stakeholders.

• Maintain highest levels of confidentiality in all aspects in the entire sourcing process.

What you will bring:

• Graduate or Postgraduate (preferred: B.E. / B.Tech. with MBA).

• 12-18 years of experience in relevant field is required (Preferred: Strategic Sourcing experience for Professional Services (Technology and Non-Technology) and Security Category)).
• Experience in Strategic sourcing process and Subject Matter Expertise in Category Management, e-Auctions, Clean Sheet Costing, and team management.
• Good understanding of Fieldglass & other ERP tools such as Ariba/ Coupa
• Detail oriented, organized team player; flexible, dynamic and proactive individual; easily accepts constructive input.
• Excellent communication and influencing skill with ability to communicate to stakeholders from different continents
• Excellent presentation and MS Office skills

Our Ideal Candidate

An ideal candidate will be a self-starter who is passionate about learning with agility and possesses flair for customer centricity.

Open for US hours support

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, economics, technology, or related field and 5 years' experience in procurement strategy, contract management, analytics, or related field. Option 2: 6 years' experience in procurement strategy, contract management, analytics, or related field and 2 years' experience leading cross-functional teams/projects.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Primary Location...Pardhanani Wilshire Ii, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India