Category Manager

1 month ago

Chennai, India HCLTech Full time

About the Company:


We are HCLTech, one of the fastest-growing large tech companies in the world and home to 222,000+ people across 60 countries, supercharging progress through industry-leading capabilities centered around Digital, Engineering and Cloud. The driving force behind that work, our people, are diverse, creative, and passionate, raising the bar for excellence on a regular basis. We, in turn, work hard to bring out the best in them as we strive to help them find their spark and become the best version of themselves that they can be.


About the Role:

We are searching for a Claim processing and wants to make a real impact on the DPO.


Responsibilities:

  • Category Analyst
  • Category Manager- Offshore
  • Category Manager- Onshore
  • Project Management Lead
  • Senior Project Management Lead
  • Senior Risk Analyst
  • Senior Affiliate Support Specialist
  • Senior Quality Assurance Specialist
  • QA Testing Support Analyst
  • QA Testing Support Lead
  • QA Testing Support Lead (Oracle)
  • TPRM Lead
  • Service Delivery Lead
  • Quality Analyst


Category Strategy Monitoring & Reporting Support:

  • Provide update on progress of opportunity and other category management initiatives
  • Able to create reports/ dashboards on savings results
  • Key monthly or quarterly category health KPIs reporting/ dashboard
  • Provide visibility on spend data: Spend information by category, supplier, and/or business unit | Spend trends
  • Purchasing Pattern trend visibility reports
  • Work closely with multiple business areas and stakeholders to establish, develop sourcing/category strategies and supplier management activities with input of spend analytics and budgetary forecasts
  • Do Spend Analysis and provide insights on spend across various categories
  • Developing communications and change management plans
  • Developing a category management charter and identify category strategy update triggers
  • Conduct internal research to include establishing spend baselines, trends, consumption patterns, demand forecasts, supplier spend portfolio analysis, supplier diversity reviews, rate card analysis, etc.
  • Conduct supplier analysis including supplier strengths and weakness review, capabilities review, and performance reviews
  • Reviewing, comparing, and analyzing current contracts including KPIs and KRIs
  • Conduct Market Intelligence and Research (see below for additional detail)
  • Opportunity and lever identification. Opportunity prioritization recommendations
  • Initial opportunity activation planning including next steps, timeline, and expected value drops
  • Market Analysis and Portfolio analysis – both buyer’s and supplier’s perspectives
  • Cost modeling | Margin analysis | Cost driver identification and Total Cost of Ownership analysis
  • Work closely with multiple business areas and stakeholders to establish, develop sourcing/category strategies and supplier management activities with input of spend analytics and budgetary forecasts
  • Do Spend Analysis and provide insights on spend across various categories
  • Developing communications and change management plans
  • Developing a category management charter and identify category strategy update triggers
  • Conduct internal research to include establishing spend baselines, trends, consumption patterns, demand forecasts, supplier spend portfolio analysis, supplier diversity reviews, rate card analysis, etc.
  • Conduct supplier analysis including supplier strengths and weakness review, capabilities review, and performance reviews
  • Reviewing, comparing, and analyzing current contracts including KPIs and KRIs
  • Conduct Market Intelligence and Research (see below for additional detail)
  • Opportunity and lever identification. Opportunity prioritization recommendations
  • Initial opportunity activation planning including next steps, timeline, and expected value drops
  • Market Analysis and Portfolio analysis – both buyer’s and supplier’s perspectives
  • Cost modeling | Margin analysis | Cost driver identification and Total Cost of Ownership analysis
  • Process exceptions requests in the system
  • Review and update data quality information
  • Monitor Due Diligence completion of Vendors
  • Daily review of various channels to provide standard response and/or tag responsible parties
  • Manage transactions exceptions provided by client
  • Provide notifications to relevant teams on tasks completions/ updates
  • Assignment of work items and process questions
  • Process exceptions requests in the system
  • Review and update data quality information
  • Monitor Due Diligence completion of Vendors
  • Daily review of various channels to provide standard response and/or tag responsible parties
  • Manage transactions exceptions provided by client
  • Provide notifications to relevant teams on tasks completions/ updates
  • Assignment of work items and process questions
  • Execution of due diligence assessments requests for Third Party vendors
  • Gather evidence and documents from Vendors through the Due Diligence questionnaire responses
  • Conduct virtual meetings with Third Party in cases evidence is not sent
  • Review evidence and evaluation criteria to determine appropriate final ratings of vendors
  • Set/Lead meetings with internal stakeholders
  • Clear Communications to all stakeholders for each stage of the process
  • Manage data in Sharepoint to update status and manage tracker
  • Complete process of intake of Catalog Form (SCIF) as per company procedures
  • Conduct review of form completeness. If not available, request teams for complete info
  • Attach completeness checklist to the record prior to placing the request in the Closed status
  • Execute daily sampling process to select agreement to be tested using excel function to ensure equal distribution across difference business and individual with in the business
  • Preload selected samples into the testing tool currently SharePoint (Future sales force) along with contract level data
  • Once testing concludes execute data validation exercise to ensure testing data integrity and load identified defects in the defects tracker
  • Execute testing in alignment with testing procedure
  • Execute peer review testing to ensure accuracy of identified defect Reporting
  • Build and execute testing results monthly report as well as key process indicator based on testing results
  • Build and execute quality monitoring reports and publish working process
  • This function requires in-depth data analytics skills using excel tableau and SharePoint
  • Execution of due diligence assessments requests for Third Party vendors
  • Gather evidence and documents from Vendors through the Due Diligence questionnaire responses
  • Conduct virtual meetings with Third Party in cases evidence is not sent
  • Review evidence and evaluation criteria to determine appropriate final ratings of vendors
  • Set/Lead meetings with internal stakeholders
  • Clear Communications to all stakeholders for each stage of the process



Interested candidates can share resume on dhivakar_s@hcltech.com

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