Senior Assistant Director

Andhra Pradesh About GeM

Government eMarketplace 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 Honourable 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- 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.
• Agile and collaborative work environment
• 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: GeM offers competitive salary and other additional benefits

The individual should be willing to relocate to the locations mentioned in the below clusters as well as should be open to extensive travel.

Cluster Place of Posting

Gujarat - Gandhinagar

A broad overview of the nature of the role can be gathered from the broad outline of the primary responsibilities shared below:

Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for key account management i.e., handling the most strategic buyer accounts for GeM and building and maintaining strong relationships.
• Responsible for driving adoption within buyer organizations.
• Coordinate escalations / support for the buyer organization with the Technical/Operations team.
• Responsible for growing the account by identifying and addressing untapped opportunities.
• Oversee the facilitation of the upload of the annual procurement plan by the buyer account.
• Follow up with the assigned buyers to ensure that all procurement SLAs are met.
• Analysis of the Bids created on GeM Portal, State Portal etc. with respect to availability of Product/Service category, technical specification and conformity to GeM standard Terms & conditions etc.
• Prepare regular reports of progress and forecast with reference to GeM procurement in States
• Analysis of the communication received regarding availability of products and services on GeM
• Any other responsibility as assigned from time to time.

Key Shared Accountabilities

• Coordinate with technical & customer experience teams to understand and communicate buyer needs effectively and strengthen value proposition for the buyer account.

Professional Experience

Essential

• Minimum 6 years of total work experience in business development/Key Account Management/Monetization/Procurement.

Other Desirable Skill Set

• Strong people and relationship management and leadership skills
• Capability to work in a fast-paced high growth environment
• Candidate knowing local language will be preferred
• Technical knowledge related to Products and Services
• Experience in Data Analysis

Educational Qualifications

Essential

• Graduate Degree in any discipline from a recognized University.

Preferred

• Post Graduate Diploma or Degree in Management with a specialization in any Domain from any of the top 50 institutes as per India Rankings 2024: Management published by NIRF.

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 interview round.

The crucial date for determining the 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.