IT Strategic Buyer

**Job Tittle** - IT Strategic Junior Buyer - Indirect Material (Buying Professional)

**Position Overview**

Siemens is looking for a professional Strategic Buyer to support global strategic IT Procurement activities, striving for optimum conditions on an excellent supplier base through pooling volumes and common strategies. Maximizing the value contribution through an ideal supplier base. Support multiple stakeholder management including alignment with Global Sourcing Center - India, Global Commodity Management and Siemens IT (Global/Regional).

**Change the future with us**:
**Analysis**
- **Demand analysis**: manage and maintain global deal-book
- **Market analysis**: monitor market, identify market trends and prepare summary documents, incorporate region specifics e.g. US market, European market, Asian market
- **Supplier analysis**: "Scout" to identify, develop and provide transparency of existing industrialized services; provide and maintain standardized Supplier Dossiers

**Strategy**
- **Procurement Strategy**: implement global sourcing strategy in close alignment with Global Commodity Management. Also support pooling of requirements across commodities.
- **Supplier Strategy**: ensure usage of globally defined preferred suppliers / Value IT Suppliers
- **Ensure adherence to internal Processes**. This includes appropriate documentation, updating and maintaining the respective procurement tools in a timely manner.

**Realization**
- **RFX/Tenders**: support global tenders managed by Global Sourcing Center - India including negotiations and contracting. Must be familiar with conducting e-bidding/e-auctions.
- **Update and maintain Contract data base** upload contracts to SharePoint or to respective procurement tools. Monitor contracts, extend or cancel contracts, depending on strategic decision from Siemens IT and/or Commodity Management.
- Catalogue Management

**Goal Setting and Controlling**
- Perform spend analysis, create, maintain & report KPIs and dashboards, e.g. spend by commodity, by IT business area, by supplier, etc

**Supplier Management**
- **Supplier Development**: support implementation of defined development measures and requirements
- **Support External Sustainability Audits** by analyzing audit reports and undertake required actions on the respective supplier premises in order to successfully close the audit

**Additional Enablers**
- Perform and maintain **supplier qualifications **in procurement tool
- Support Siemens IT in topics such as **Claim Management, Risk Management and Contract Management**

We don’t need superheroes, just super minds.
- 6+ years of professional experience in IT procurement/ procurement related function
- In depth knowledge of IT Provider market in the IT Commodities: IT Consulting, Application Management, Hardware, Infrastructure, Software or Telecommunication.
- Deep experience in Procurement processes. Fast adaption of Siemens internal Procurement processes and tools
- This role will be interacting with peers at Global Sourcing Center - India and globally and thus involves experience of working with different cultures and working in multi-cultural teams.
- Should have preferably an engineering degree. MBA will be an additional advantage

**Make your mark in our exciting world at Siemens.**

This role is based in Pune. You’ll also get to visit other locations in India and beyond, so you’ll need to go where this journey takes you. In return, you’ll get the chance to work with teams impacting entire cities, countries - and the shape of things to come.

**Organization**: Global Business Services

**Company**: Siemens Technology and Services Private Limited

**Experience Level**: Experienced Professional

**Job Type**: Full-time