Procurement Practice Analyst

Skill required: Procurement Operations - Procurement Management

Designation: Procurement Practice Analyst

Qualifications:Any Graduation

Years of Experience:3 to 5 years
About Accenture
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What would you do?

The Procurement Operations Analyst will be aligned to Accentures fastest growing business segment, Accenture Operations. The Procurement Operations Analyst integrates the various purchasing functions ranging from the front end short term strategic activities of sourcing and auction services to the back end long term activities of TCO driven category management, procurement transaction processing, and procurement

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

Proven ability to work independently and as a team member

Excellent communication skills written and verbal including formal presentation skills (needs to be able to build relationships over the phone without meeting suppliers customers on a regular basis)

Good organizational, multi-tasking, and time management skills

Adaptable communication ability to conform to the varied corporate cultures

What are we looking for?

Bachelors Degree

Minimum of 1 years of experience in a strategic sourcing, procurement, and or supply chain function

Bachelors Degree in Business, Supply Chain, Sourcing, Procurement

Strong analytical skills spend analysis, savings opportunity assessment

Proficiency with Microsoft Word and Excel

Strong analytical and problem solving skills

Eagerness to contribute in a team oriented environment

Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem solving environment

Desire to work in an information systems environment


Roles and Responsibilities:

Provide daily support to a team lead

Provide process and transaction support

Execute the spot buying process for general, low to midlevel spend categories

Manage specifications, using the clientspecified standards and agreement templates, for the provision of specific goods or services in line with the business needs of the client

Strive for best value for money options, through execution of a standardized spot buying processes, use of appropriate spot buy tools and negotiations

Completion of quoting process including supplier selection from preselected suppliers

Completion of buying process initiated by the user including supplier selection from preselected suppliers

Accountable for maintaining quality and service standards to support the overall AccentureClient relationship and to deliver continuous improvement

Understand incoming requests, check quality requirements, follow up with requester where required (by phone, email) to ensure specifications are clear to select the best spot buying options

Where required, make new supplier proposals and align with Procurement Business Partner on client side

Identify potential vendors and obtain quotes as needed, per clients policy

Research and identify potential vendors and recommend alternative qualified vendors to requestors to drive clients savings, relationship leverage, vendor base optimization, and compliance as part of the spot buying or tactical buying process

Update requisition PO creation process
QualificationAny Graduation