Procurement Professional

3 weeks ago

Bengaluru, India IBM Full time

**Introduction**
At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

**Your Role and Responsibilities**
As a Operations Buying Professional, prime responsibility is to procure basic goods and services, obtain quotation, develop proposal, negotiate payment terms and pricing, contracting knowledge a must have to evaluate risks and adhere to Client requirements.

Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Addressing all non-catalogue transactions if greater than pre-agreed thresholds
- Working with Strategic Sourcing Teams in the development of category specific sourcing strategies and give input to sourcing plans
- Strong IT Category knowledge supporting North America based suppliers and contracts.
- Managing sourcing suppliers and related stakeholders
- Driving change management through education and compliance improvement activities
- Manage exceptions to established category strategy
- Execute competitive bid events
- Communicate and negotiate with clients and suppliers through all levels of organisation
- Interface with strategic sourcing team to implement strategic contracts at the tactical level
- Support client specific category strategy - redirect tactical spend through strategic contracts/channels as appropriate
- Perform periodic analysis within managed commodity scope to identify savings, define efficiency opportunities and tactical initiatives that should be undertaken
- Promote process efficiencies through focus on automated channels where applicable
- Identify appropriate potential suppliers to fit clients business objectives
- Negotiate and contract with exception suppliers driving additional savings and value
- Communicate supplier recommendations to clients based on objective criteria and fit for client business
- Identify any exception opportunities to the Category Managers and make recommendations on strategic approaches that might be taken
- Optimise supply base opportunities across managed commodities
- Positive Attitude, Planning, Curiosity, Self-discipline, Ability to work in North America time zone (6.30 PM to 3.30 AM IST)

**Required Technical and Professional Expertise**
- Minimum 4-6 years of experience in Procurement domain
- Experience in performing duties as Buyer for Sourcing based Organizations procuring goods, service.
- Closely working with stake holders to gather their sourcing needs
- Interface with strategic sourcing team to implement strategic contracts at the tactical level
- Negotiation skills
- Contracting knowledge is a must have
- Comprehensive commercial procurement and client facing or consulting experience
- Sourcing Category Skills across multiple areas and excellent client facing skills
- Ability to manage buying projects
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite

**Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise**
- Must be a self-starter, good team player and an effective problem-solver, ambitious; able to work independently
- It is preferred if the resource has working experience in a North America based client facing environment. Also have strong tactical buying and negotiation skills
- Contracting knowledge is a must have
- Proven Analytical and communication capabilities with strong ownership and accountability

**About Business Unit**

The IBM Finance organization is responsible for driving enterprise performance and transformation. We are the financial stewards of IBM, delivering IBM’s financial strategy, developing new business models, and mitigating enterprise risk. Do you have a passion for creating business value? Join our team in accounting, financial planning, pricing, business controls, tax, treasury, business development (acquisitions & divestitures), and global financing.

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exception

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