Procurement Practice Specialist

Skill required: Enablement - Market Intelligence

Designation: Procurement Practice Specialist

Qualifications:BCom/MCom

Years of Experience:7 to 11 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 10 years of relevant experience in Supplier Risk Management or Procurement domain of which

Minimum 3 years of experience in Third Party Risk Management or related fields

Minimum 5 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 5 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 3 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 any 4 skills sets as below:

Third Party Risk Management

Supplier segmentation

Supplier due diligence

Service request fulfilment

Strong analytical, organizational and communication skills. Candidate should be able to demonstrate his/ her ability to drive effective and articulate communications with senior internal and client leadership

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. Moderate Expertise on Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc.) and knows at basics of Microsoft Project (MPP), Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft VisioGood to Have:

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, Power BI, etc.

ESG experience

Educational Qualification and Certification

Must Have:

Graduation in any stream

Good to Have:

Certification in ITIL Foundation

Certification in IACCM

Certification in CPSM

Any other domain certificates

Roles and Responsibilities:

Supplier Assure Specialist 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:

Develop in-depth understanding of processes and outcomes thereby achieving 100% project targets

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

Third Party Risk Management: that focuses on detecting, reducing, and mitigating risks associated with third-party use (suppliers, partners, contractors, or service providers); conduct supplier risk assessments, evaluate the risk associated with each vendor and prioritize mitigation strategies; manage a third-party risk management program to ensure ongoing monitoring of vendor risk and performance; manage the ongoing vendor risk management process, including the identification and assessment of emerging risks and changes in the vendor s risk profile; monitor and report on the performance of the third-party risk management program and identify areas for improvement

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 standards, regulations, and policies

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

An effective mentor/SME to guide team members to clear the Third Party Risk Management concepts

Experience in setting up the process in new deals and improvise the processes in the existing deals

Understand detail Scope of work in a particular project and provide clear, specific and measurable outcomes

Develop, drive and sustain qualitative delivery outputs via continuous improvement in supplier delivery, automation and target-based savings for the project

Effective engagement with external and internal stakeholder

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

Implement Automation and CSI initiatives enabling Cost to Serve (CTS) benefits, productivity gains of 10% or more.

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

Effective management of attritions with excellent people handling skills.

Qualification BCom,MCom