Procurement Analyst

Location – Chennai

Salary – Max 3.5 LPA

Rotational 5 Days Work

Rotational 2 Day Off

Job description:

• Manages portfolio of agreements and new requests, enabling efficient and effective purchase of goods and services (from purchase to pay) with a focus on business value, on-time delivery, and cycle time.
• Negotiates contract pricing and terms & conditions directly with suppliers while working with internal stakeholders, seeking the lowest total system costs and appropriate mitigation of supply and legal risk.
• Ensures contract compliance and utilization – monitors supplier performance, troubleshoots issues.
• Track Purchasing activity and measurements against the project schedule.
• Identifies business value and other opportunities within the portfolio.
• Develops and maintains internal and external relationships to meet business line expectations.
• Provide data sheets, drawings, and specifications to the site and subcontractors in a timely manner to ensure correct support and services are available for installation.
• Issue equipment to installers complete with installation data sheets, drawings and specifications.
• Provides fit-for-risk process improvements.
• Influences development and implements Category strategic and commercial guidance
• People leadership- May lead and be responsible for direct reports.
• Leads development, recommendation/presentation, and implementation leadership of category sourcing strategies and ensures alignment, compliance and delivery of business requirements/needs.
• Collaborates with Supplier Relationship Managers to support their needs from a strategic sourcing perspective.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum one year experience in Purchasing, Accounting, or general Administrative experience.
• A successful candidate with a minimum of 1 year of Procurement experience.
• Client-server software applications experience.
• Ideally Software Skills in MS Office, Excel, ERP Systems – SAP, E-Matrix.