Delivery Lead Manager

Skill required: Sourcing - Sourcing
Designation: Delivery Lead Manager
Qualifications:Any Graduation
Years of Experience:13 to 18 years

What would you do?
As a member of the technology sourcing practice, you will be responsible for identifying cost/productivity improvement opportunities in technology spend across a wide array of leading companies and industries. You will lead sourcing projects, including all key steps such as strategy development, RFx management, risk management/mitigation, supplier negotiation, award recommendations, business case presentations, and supplier contract execution. You will be working as a part of Procurement management team which uses a systematic approach for buying all the goods and services needed for a company to stay sustainable. They are involved in the identification of need, finding and qualifying the suppliers, requesting proposals, negotiating with suppliers, contracting, delivery and analyzing results.Understand when & how to use a request for proposal (price and non-price factors) and RFQ (price only) and how to develop, execute and analyze the results. Collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative information to assess, screen and select suppliers.
What are we looking for?
To be successful in this role, you should be a strong critical thinker and self-starter who can take the initiative with high-level direction and deliver client work with minimal supervision. You should have a passion for continuous self-learning across industries, such as IT, banking, retail, industrial, healthcare, etc., with end-to-end technology sourcing exposure. You should possess proven analytical skills in terms of numeric and text-based analysis, converting information into tangible recommendations to clients. You should be an effective collaborator, able to manage in a matrix organization structure with multiple internal and client stakeholders, and influencing at the executive level to drive transformational changes. You should also have a passion for process improvement and innovation, specifically aligned to applying generative AI use cases to augment sourcing delivery. Awareness of generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot) and their responsible use in sourcing and procurement activities. Ability to leverage generative AI to improve efficiency in tasks such as RFP drafting, spend classification, data summarization, and contract review. You will be responsible for identifying cost/productivity improvement opportunities in technology spend across a wide array of leading companies and industries. You will lead sourcing projects, including all key steps such as strategy development, RFx management, risk management/mitigation, supplier negotiation, award recommendations, business case presentations, and supplier contract execution.

Roles and Responsibilities: You will work with the legal and technical teams to facilitate the negotiations of the legal and technical terms in a contract and execute them. You will also provide industry and supplier research, market intelligence, and robust commercial analyses to clients, support the development of market insights from cross-client sourcing activity, and collaborate with Technology Practice advisors to develop content that enables knowledge sharing across the organization. You will pursue and develop senior-level stakeholder relationships at priority accounts and support account relationship plans. Your role will span from individual contributor, leading high complexity sourcing projects, to team leader, coaching and developing expertise and sourcing excellence in others.

Qualification
Any Graduation