Junior Procurement Specialist

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Engaging with Stakeholder and the Business:

This role gives high visibility and opportunities to engage with the different stakeholders within and outside of our organization. Building rapport, excellent communication and interpersonal skills is key to success in this role. You must be fluent in both written and oral English. With relevant category knowledge and experience, you will be an SME providing procurement advice and guidance to stakeholders in India, collaborate with procurement colleagues across the wider regional and global team to deliver value to our internal and occasionally external clients.

Developing and implementing sourcing strategies

In this role, you’re responsible for all the sourcing & procurement activities that we do at several sites across different cities.

Support the India Jaggaer Adoption, implementation & training of different technology initiatives to the distributed teams of PDS. This includes process and procedures for vendor management such as registration (Phase 01 & Phase 02), maintaining clean sheet in terms of regional DQE dashboard. Oversee the use of Bravo on projects. Make presentations that captures the procurement goals and status against the road map. Work with the project & procurement leads to support the use and adoption by all staff and ensure compliance to necessary tasks on the platform across all projects.

Work with the cost management team of PDS, Central Procurement Team on matters relating to project procurement and cost management, Cost benchmarking etc.,

Additionally, you’ll be our subject matter expert in this domain. As such, you must gather and track relevant information, and maintain their accuracy, so that we can use such details when we set our targets and identify opportunities for further improvement to our defined category strategy.

Task-oriented responsibilities will include:

Develop and execute procurement strategies for PDS Central Procurement Team in India.