Senior Consultant

About Government e-Marketplace

Government e Marketplace is a unified digital platform that facilitates end-to-end procurement of goods and services by various government departments, organizations, and public sector undertakings (PSUs). Our Honble Prime Ministers concerted efforts to harness the power of digital platforms to achieve Minimum Government, Maximum Governance led to the genesis of GeM in 2016.

GeM provides a paperless, cashless and contactless ecosystem for government buyers to directly purchase products and services from pan-India sellers and service providers through an online platform. GeM covers the entire gamut of procurement process, right from vendor registration and item selection by buyers to receipt of goods and facilitation of timely payments. GeM has envisioned to utilise the agility and speed that come along with a digital platform created with a strategic intent to reinvigorate public procurement systems and bring about a lasting change for the underserved as well as the nation.

Built on the pillars of Efficiency, Transparency and Inclusivity, GeM has emerged as a digital tool in nations interest, aimed at catalyzing excellence in public procurement. To know more about us, please visit-

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What is it like to work at GeM?

• Opportunity to work with a team of highly passionate professionals from Private and Government sector
• Unbounded space for creativity and innovation
• Highly transparent and open work culture
• Work-Life balance
• Various kinds of health covers (Insurance) for individual and family
• A great opportunity to learn and hone your skills

Compensation: Government e-Marketplace offers competitive salary and other additional benefits

Location: This position is based in Delhi

Job Overview:

The GeM Product Category is designed based on standardized set of technical parameters (TP) which form the basis for upload of product catalogues.

Job Responsibilities

Core Activities:

• Responsible for managing the identification/creation/modification of the TPs (Technical Parameters) for assigned product categories.
• Responsible for time-to-time updating and maintenance of the TPs (Technical Parameters)
• Responsible for product market sanitization on a regular basis

Allied Activities:

• Responsible for ensuring that the technical details are collected from buyers and sellers and address their requirements
• Ensure that national and international standards/Regulations/certifications applicable to the product are captured in the Technical Parameters
• Ensure that the Technical Parameters are comprehensive enough to support the catalogue of all the different manufacturers
• Ensure that the Technical Parameters meet the expectations of key internal and external stakeholders
• Responsible for conducting the Consultative Committee Meetings for finalising the technical particulars whenever required
• Any other responsibility as assigned by the reporting manager

Eligibility criteria for Professional Experience:

Sufficient experience in one or more of the following areas of expertise only:

i. e-commerce or

Past Experience in preparation of technical parameters for products is preferred

Other Skill Sets

• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously in a highly demanding and fast paced high growth environment
• Knowledge about BIS Standards, TEC std. and international standards shall be an added advantage
• Strong technical and consumer understanding of a product categories
• Strong Collaboration and negotiation skills to handle multiple stakeholders
• Capability to work in a fast-paced high growth environment
• Very well conversant with using MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Educational Qualifications

• Essential: Bachelors degree in engineering or technology.

GeM selection committee reserves the right to relax or extend the eligibility criteria and educational qualification.

In case numbers of applications received are very high, GeM reserves the right to shortlist candidates and invite only shortlisted candidates for an interview round.

The crucial date for determining eligibility will be the last date of receipt of applications. No applications shall be entertained under any circumstances after the stipulated date. Incomplete applications shall be rejected.

GeM reserves the right to shortlist candidates for interview. Applicants should note that mere fulfillment of minimum eligibility criteria may not ensure consideration for short listing for interview. GeM will not entertain any correspondence on this subject and decisions of GeM will be final in all matters.