Procurement Practice Analyst

Skill required: Enablement - Market Intelligence

Designation: Procurement Practice Analyst

Qualifications:BCom/MCom

Years of Experience:3 to 5 years

What would you do?
The Supplier Assure powered by SynOps team is part of Accenture Operations Procurement, Supply Chain and Network (PSN) business vertical, providing dedicated and shared support services for our external and internal operations. This includes dealing with a diverse set of hardware, software, and service suppliers, who may be client-retained vendors or Accenture third-party sub-contractors.

Our core areas of expertise are to ensure offerings Third Party Risk Assessment - Supplier Performance Management-Supplier Relationship Management - Innovation works in loop all together to deliver effectively & efficiently and power businesses around the globe but are not limited to the relation in between and each workstream can work independently to ensure seamless deliverables and meeting client expectations.

What are we looking for?
Minimum 6 years of relevant experience in Supplier Risk Management or Procurement domain of which

Minimum 2-3 year of experience in client facing roles - directly responsible for delivering scope of work and ensuring zero escalations.

Minimum 2 years of experience in Business Operations Management, Project Management or similar domain.

Minimum 2 years of experience in working with virtual teams.

Candidate should be able to demonstrate good understanding of minimum 2 skill sets from the above and should be able to provide at least 1 real life scenario(s) and outcome as example(s) of his/ her expertise in any 2 skills sets as below:

Third Party Risk Management

Supplier segmentation

Supplier due diligence

Service request fulfilment

Strong communication skills - candidate should be able to demonstrate his/ her ability to drive effective and articulate communications with senior internal and client leadership.

Minimum intermediate level expertise on Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc.) and knows at least basics of Microsoft Project (MPP), Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Visio
Good to Have:

Basic understanding of the ITSM/ ITIL Framework

Quality Program and/ or Training experience

Technology Management experience

Understanding and development of Macros, Visual Basics, Process automations, Power BI, etc.

ESG experience



Educational Qualification and Certification

Must Have:

Diploma/ B.E./ B. Tech in E&TC/ CS/ IT OR B.Com/ B.Sc/ CA/ CA Intern

Good to Have:

Certification in ITIL Foundation

Certification in IACCM

Certification in CPSM

Any other domain certificates

Roles and Responsibilities:

Supplier Assure Analyst requires the resource to be responsible for managing one or more strategic supplier relationships - either managed or sub-contractor. These suppliers are typically core to the Accenture Operations internal as well external commercial offerings. Some key responsibilities for the potential candidate including but not limited to are as enlisted below:

Understand Supplier Assure based on deals framework

Efficiently deliver core processes and sub-processes for in-scope deliverables for:

Third Party Risk Management: conduct supplier risk assessments, evaluate the risk associated with each vendor and prioritize mitigation strategies; track and monitor end-to-end third-party risk management engagements to ensure ongoing monitoring of vendor risk and performance; identify potential risks, changes in the vendor s risk profile and process improvement opportunities to drive process efficiency

Supplier segmentation: differentiating suppliers in terms of their influence and the risks they bring in a process.

Supplier due diligence: conduct verification for vendor s compliance with company guidelines

Service request fulfilment: ensuring that client/user service requests are met according to agreed-upon SLA/KPIs and that we are meeting project requirements

Good knowledge of Third Party Risk Management process.

Run day-to-day operations of the team thereby driving high-performance led error free and noise-less delivery for our stakeholders.

Ensuring zero client escalations with on time delivery of scope of work.

External and internal stakeholder management

Good to have people development and team management with strict adherence to Accenture-s policies on people/ HR as application and in-force.

Strict adherence to Accenture-s Anti-Corruption, Anti-Bribery, Client Data Protection, and other similar regulatory or compliance policies in-force and in accordance to Accenture-s Core Values

Qualification BCom,MCom