Procurement Practice Associate Manager

Skill required: Enablement - Market Intelligence

Designation: Procurement Practice Associate Manager

Qualifications:BCom/MCom

Years of Experience:10 to 14 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-contractor
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 12 years of relevant experience in Supplier Management or Procurement domain of which

Minimum 3 years of experience working with and influencing multiple stakeholders including senior leadership.

Minimum 4 year of experience in client facing roles - directly responsible for delivering on (either two or more areas of) significant pieces of scope, quality, budget, resources, and delivery schedule.

Minimum 7 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 4 skill sets from the above and should be able to provide at least 1 to 2 real life scenario(s) and outcome as example(s) of his/ her expertise in all skills sets as below :

Supplier segmentation

Supplier Performance management & Governance

Contract management & compliance

Contract Compliance Services

Service delivery Proven experience of establishing robust governance framework for IT vendors, managing scorecards and leading business reviews to govern IT vendor delivery.

Strong communication skills - candidate should be able to demonstrate his/ her ability to driv
Quality Program and/ or Training experience.

IACCM

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. 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 Associate Manager 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 and develop Supplier Assure based on deals framework

Efficiently manage core processes and sub-processes for in-scope deliverables for: Implement Automation and CSI initiatives enabling Cost to Serve (CTS) benefits, productivity gains of 15% or more.

Identify upsell opportunity in your deal & support solution, client visit and sales pipeline for Supplier Assure deals.

Design processes required for errorless & noise free delivery in terms of Scope of Work.

Ensuring best market practice and relevant past experience vital in enhancing current processes

External and internal stakeholder management

Upskill self on digital platforms & tools like Ariba, SAP, Apex, Coupa, ServiceNow, Power BI, etc.

Effective management of attritions with excellent people handling skills.

People engagement, development and management with strict adherence to Accenture-s policies on people/ HR as application and in-force.

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

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.

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

SLA Compliance: Manage IT Vendor SLAs and contractual KPIs across critical software and hardware infrastructure Develop, drive and sustain qualitative delivery outputs via continuous improvement in supplier delivery, automation and target-based savings for the project.

Qualification BCom,MCom