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?
Must Have:

Minimum 6 years of relevant experience in Supplier Management or Procurement domain of which

Minimum 2 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 1 skills sets as below :

Supplier segmentation

Supplier Performance management & Governance

Contract management & compliance

Contract Compliance Services

Third Part Risk Management

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.

Ability to lead and innovate in the delivery of operational activities proactively and independently.

Technology Management experience.

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







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:

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

Supplier Performance management & Governance: utilized to assess, evaluate, and monitor a supplier s performance in order to reduce costs, mitigate risks, and promote continuous improvement

Contract management & compliance: improve performance and minimize risk, business procedures that manage the formulation, execution, and compliance of mutually accepted terms are referred to as clause management.

Contract Compliance Services: validating invoices 4-way and identifying leaks in terms of overcharging and undercharging

Third Part Risk Management: that focuses on detecting, reducing, and mitigating risks associated with third-party use (suppliers, partners, contractors, or service providers).

Supplier due diligence: process to ensure suppliers are legitimate

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

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

Good knowledge of SRM Processes.

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

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