Procurement Associate

**Procurement Associate (Category Associate)**

**Job #**:

- req33904

**Organization**:

- World Bank

**Sector**:

- Procurement

**Grade**:

- GD

**Term Duration**:

- 3 years 0 months

**Recruitment Type**:

- Local Recruitment

**Location**:

- Chennai,India

**Required Language(s)**:
**Preferred Language(s)**:
**Closing Date**:

- 8/7/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

**Description**

**Vice-Presidency Context**:
The Budget, Performance Review and Strategic Planning Vice Presidency (BPS VPU) was created in July 2013 and expanded to include Corporate Procurement in July 2024. The purpose of the VPU is to deliver high value for money with efficient, effective, and professional finance, procurement, and resource management services to help drive sustained business success through delivery of the WBG strategy. At the same time, it is focusing on improving governance to enable better oversight of what and how services are provided and continuing to strengthen its professional workforce with up-to-date skills, knowledge, and experience. The BPS VPU delivery model has three core roles designed to provide high quality, relevant and consistent services:

- Business Partners: embedded partners focused on decision support and performance oversight with strong understanding of the business.
- Centers of Expertise: providing thought-leadership and analytics, designing resource management policies, practices, and coordinating business finance knowledge management.
- Service Center: central unit to manage delivery of high volume and transactional and reporting services across Bank, including help desk to support to clients.

**Unit Context, Locations, Roles**:
The Corporate Procurement Department supports the mission of the WBG by performing the procurement function following the principles of transparency, fairness, competition, and best value in an efficient, effective, and customer-focused manner. These principles are employed globally and represent the strategic elements that guide the Bank Group’s activities in procurement and contracting practices. Corporate Procurement is responsible for coordinating and overseeing the sourcing strategy, selection, and contract execution for more than 130 Bank Group offices around the globe, serving our clients from offices located in Washington, D.C., Chennai, India and Sofia, Bulgaria. Within the BPSSM delivery model, the Corporate Procurement Department focuses on three core principles:

- Commerciality: Deliver best “value for money” supply solutions measured by cost, quality, and speed.
- Risk Management: Predict, mitigate, and manage vendor related risks to protect WBG’s interests
- Sustainability: Develop environmentally and socially sustainable supply chains.

Categories of spend include: i) Corporate Services and Real Estate; ii) Consulting; iii) Human Resources and Professional Services; and iv) Technology.

The Procurement Associate (Category Associate) position reports to the Senior Procurement Specialist, who in turn reports to Global Head Sourcing and Supplier Management.

The primary responsibilities include being a valued business partner to clients, understanding business needs, developing annual procurement plans, conducting internal (e.g., data-driven; category spend, client strategies, stakeholder analysis, and SWOT), and external analysis (e.g., market research & forecast, market share & trends, benchmarks, cost drivers), advising clients on market trends, and influencing change with the intent to maximize value for money while managing risks and maximizing impact on sustainability. The position for the category team requires knowledge of various categories, including but not limited to HRPS (Human Resources and Professional Services), TECH (Technology) and CSRE (Corporate Services and Real Estate).

**Key accountability for this position includes**:

- Conducts procurement, sourcing, and category management activities required by the World Bank Group globally.
- Understands client’s needs, collaborates with clients in developing procurement plans; carries out market research to identify sources of supply, trend analysis and benchmarks.
- Develops vendor pre-qualifying and evaluation criteria, generates solicitations, manages bidding process, reviews technical specifications for completeness and competitive qualities; prepares contracts; and engages vendors in process discussions.
- Negotiates contract terms and conditions for the assigned categories.
- Category management of designated categories.
- Monitors vendor commercial performance.
- Liaises with clients in preparation and delivery of presentations to Procurement Committees.
- Undertakes activities to ensure compliance with World Bank Groups’ policy.
- Provides guidance and direction to Project Managers on commercial contract management issues.
- Designs innovative solutions for medium to complex solicitations for large dollar and through a service risk-based approach.
- Possesses an expert leve