Procure-to-pay Associate Advisor

**ABOUT EVERNORTH**:
Evernorth exists to elevate health for all, because we believe health is the starting point for human potential and progress. As champions for affordable, predictable and simple health care,
we solve the problems others don’t, won’t or can’t.

Our innovation hub in India will allow us to work with the right talent, expand our global footprint, improve our competitive stance, and better deliver on our promises to stakeholders. We are passionate about making healthcare better by delivering world-class solutions that make a real difference.

We are always looking upward. And that starts with finding the right talent to help us get there.

**Procure-to-Pay Associate Advisor - HIH - Evernorth**

**Position Overview**

Global Procurement, Third-Party Management & Shared Services (GPTPMS) is Evernorth’s official strategic sourcing and supplier relationship management organization. Whether an employee or function is looking to purchase new goods or services, renew an existing supplier relationship, or identify suppliers for consideration of a good or service, the GPTPMS organization has the tools and processes in place to achieve those goals.

The Procure to Pay Associate Advisor will work within Evernorth’s Digital Procurement & Operations team to create purchasing events that ensure quality goods and services are delivered at optimal cost, on time, and aligned with Evernorth's corporate purchasing policies. This role creates purchasing solicitations, supports proposals, and conduct real-time cost analysis. Procure to Pay Associate Advisor will also support the procurement central intake function to ensure procurement request are acknowledge, reviewed, and distributed. The Associate Advisor will support Global Procurement’s catalog and alternate buying channel strategies and collaborate to transform procurement operations. They will question and improve existing best practices, knowledge management, P2P and related processes to drive quality and operational excellence.

**Responsibilities**
- Analyze, evaluate, and issue purchase request for proposals/quotes as a result of customer requests/requisitions.
- Identify and select vendor to procure requisitioned commodities; meeting criteria, such as price, quantity, quality and delivery dates and specs.
- Challenges vendors for best cost and delivery of items purchased.
- Responsible for issuing purchase orders and ensuring orders and purchase requests are accurate.
- Maintains vendor relationships ensuring best pricing and order preference is received.
- Analyze data, draw conclusions, and communicate solutions to the team. Send follow ups to the stakeholders for clarification, if necessary.
- Targets year-over-year cost reductions through planned and/or spot negotiations.
- Communicate timing and process cadence to internal and external customers.
- Resolve purchasing and invoicing problems with vendors.
- Support central intake function to ensure procurement request/sourcing projects are created for or routed to appropriate buying channels and monitor workflows to appropriate procurement teams.
- Ensure prioritization and deliverables are timely throughout the engagement process.
- Provide internal customers with high level overview of buying channels options.
- Responsible for ensuring that Procurement and Purchasing requests are acknowledged, reviewed, logged in, verified, and distributed in a timely manner by conducting review of documentation associated with each request and engage with internal and external stake holders, (quotes, order forms, etc.).
- Create and maintain SOPs and process documentation.
- Perform other duties as requested.

**Qualifications**

**Required Skills**:

- Team player with a positive attitude and ability to manage in ambiguity.
- Ability to assess and initiate things independently.
- Adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate.
- Ability to coordinate, troubleshoot and resolve catalog issues with technical teams.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to work with data in Excel using pivot tables and other key Excel functions to analyze, organize and present data.
- Excellent communication including written, verbal and listening skills.
- Good time management.

**Required Experience & Education**:

- Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, or Finance or equivalent experience preferred.
- Experience with the Ariba platform, creating purchase requests, and/or requests for bidding (or proposal).
- Minimum of 8-11 years of experience with Procure to Order processes.
- Background in managing relationships with suppliers and RFx’s.
- Knowledge or experience of AP, Finance, Indirect Procurement.

**Location & Hours of Work**
- Full-time position, working 40 hours per week. Expected overlap with US hours as appropriate. Afternoon shift: 1:00 - 10:00 pm IST.
- Primarily based in the Innovation Hub in Hyderabad, India in a hybrid working model (3 days WFO and 2 days WAH)

**Equal Opportunity Statement**
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