Junior Manager-Source To Pay - Procurement Operations

Job Title

Junior Manager-Source to Pay - Procurement Operations

Role Details

• Level: L5C
• Reports To: Sourcing Manager_ P-ops
• Location: Bangalore

Context / Scope

The Supplier Experience Team is responsible to ensure that Source To Pay processes (including Purchase to Pay and Procurement Operations) are working effectively efficiently, are well controlled and drive value for Diageo, also ensuring control agenda (SOX compliance) across all areas as well.

This role is part of the Supplier Experience Team and reports to the Sourcing Manager_ P-ops. This role acts as the interface between GBS Procurement community (accountable for the purchasing strategy) ensuring Diageo buys the right goods and services from the right supplier at the right price.

This is a sourcing specialist role which will directly support the Global and Regional Category Procurement teams, STP systems support and suppliers.

Advanced prior experience and understanding of sourcing and contracting processes and practices is essential.

Dimensions

• a) Financial The role will support the overall Sourcing process, both for spend owned by GBO end-to-end and Marketing category spend managed by regional procurement. The role will be responsible to deliver productivity savings (both hard and mitigation) through efficient and effective sourcing processes
• b) Market Complexity This role will work with the marketing Category Managers and Specialists and suppliers and will interface with business users and senior stakeholders. These relationships may encompass people based in a variety of locations and across multiple cultures, languages, seniority levels and time-zones. Prior experience and understanding of sourcing and contracting processes and practices is essential.
• c) Leadership Responsibilities This role has no line management responsibilities, but the role will be expected to lead and manage sourcing activities that will need the candidate to show strong leadership qualities. This role is required to engage, manage influence the different stakeholder groups associated with Strategic Sourcing processes to deliver a timely and cost-effective sourcing. It requires the incumbent to have advanced knowledge of tendering systems and tools such as Coupa/CSO and end to end procurement processes. The role will be expected to share best practice across Procurement and Sourcing teams and to seek out insights for improvements to processes, ways of working and opportunities for consolidation of sourcing requirements. To be effective, a broad understanding of contractual concepts will be helpful.

Responsibilities

The Sourcing Specialist would be expected to be responsible for:

• The timely management and strategic coordination of sourcing requests (RFI, RFP, RFQ) and eAuctions from the business within the agreed SLA s and KPI s
• Looking for and implementing opportunities for continuous system and process improvement
• Providing strong technical support of Marketing category ( POSM, Media, Experiential) eRFX and eAuction with strategy, content and overall event management.
• May provide recommendations on suppliers to participate in sourcing events, based on criteria such as diversity, sustainability, commercial advantage or service delivery.
• Be the champion for their defined area/portfolio of spend, including category and market/country, knowing the right sources of supply, the policies applicable and the compliance requirements as well as the external sources that can be contacted to meet the overall business requirement.
• Build proactive and positively beneficial relationships with key stakeholders, being able to influence upwards

Purpose of Role

The Sourcing Expert will be expected to

• Play a lead role in the tendering process for goods and services, designing the process, launching eSourcing requests (RFI, RFP, RFQ) and eAuction, post-event analysis, selecting the supplier and sign off contract s requirements (if needed)
• Provide advice and direction to business stakeholders directing them to the correct sourcing channels.
• Deliver their services in a compliant manner against the agreed ways of working, KPI s and SLA s, driving an environment of high-quality service delivery and continuous process and system improvements; contributes actively in developing strategic plan to reach target KPIs
• Deliver excellent customer experience and provide accurate and efficient responses within the targeted service level agreement.
• Work and form strong partnerships with the global STP leadership, Procurement, Finance teams and related departments.

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