Procurement Category Manager

Flexing It®; Delhi; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Flexing It® in India is seeking a Procurement Category Manager Marketing to lead global data purchase, market intelligence and translations sourcing. You will report to the Global Category Leader and collaborate with stakeholders across regions to drive savings, governance and supplier performance.

The role requires strong marketing sourcing expertise, legal/commercial awareness, and ability to coordinate across time zones, with overlap into European and US working hours.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience in global services sourcing.
• Marketing knowledge and excellence in sourcing and negotiation.
• Understanding of legal aspects related to professional services (IP, data privacy, cybersecurity, DPA).

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic sourcing across data purchase, market intelligence and translations.
• Manage global RFPs, vendor selection, and contract negotiations.
• Drive productivity and savings through stakeholder collaboration.
• Manage supplier panel, risk, performance, and innovation.
• Prepare business reviews with strategic suppliers.
• Coordinate with regional buyers and global time zones.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Data analytics

Tools

e-sourcing tools

Data visualization tools

Job description

Our client, a Leading Global Specialist in Energy Management and Automation, is looking for a Procurement Category Manager Marketing in India. The scope is to manage the sub-category of data purchase/market intelligence & translations Worldwide. You must deliver on strategic projects to effectively deliver high performance, efficiencies, and customer satisfaction for stakeholders in support of their business needs.

What will you do

You will report to the Global Category Leader in the Global Procurement Marketing team. You will be part of a global procurement community (team members in North America, Europe, and Asia) and interact with stakeholders/suppliers worldwide.

• Strategic Sourcing: Anticipate, collect, understand, and help to formalize the business requirements with various stakeholders in all BU organizations for your identified families.
• Assess the vendors market to determine the best options and sources of supply for Schneider Lead RFPs, negotiation, supplier selection in close collaboration with stakeholders to meet their business needs
• Lead contract negotiation, approval, and signature for large-scale, enterprise-wide global agreements in alignment with Group legal and compliance requirements and policies
• Demonstrates project management expertise to carry strategic sourcing projects from strategic planning through implementation.
• Connect with local buyers in region and animate the network related to the data purchase and translations sub-categories
• Sub- Category management and Supplier relationship management: Analyze and optimize a portfolio of vendors
• Be accountable for delivering productivity/savings in his / her scope, based on strong collaboration with stakeholders (functional management)
• Proactively manage his/her supplier panel, evaluate performance, risk, and innovation in alignment with the category strategy
• Prepare and lead Business Reviews with strategic suppliers
• Drive adoption to a global pool of recommended vendors established internationally for marketing.
• Support and drive change within all parties involved to ensure most business needs are met within the Program Stakeholders management: Ensure stakeholder's management & satisfaction Increase the value of the function on the identified scope

PLEASE NOTE: Flexibility to work across global time zones required, including overlap with European (12:30 PM4:30 PM IST) and US (6:30 PM9:30 PM IST) morning business hours.

Skills Required

• >5 years of relevant experience in sourcing services in a global environment
• Marketing knowledge
• Excellent sourcing & negotiation skills (contractual and commercial negotiation, supplier management, should-cost analysis, sourcing methods & tools)
• Good understanding and experience in legal aspects associated with Professional services (Intellectual property, Personal data, cybersecurity, DPA etc.)
• Ability to influence & convince, Networking skills
• Subject matter expertise on Professional services market trends
• Communication & collaboration
• Result-oriented, dynamic, self-driven, team player
• Ability to use e-sourcing and data analytics tools
• Data-driven, leveraging data analytics, data visualization, and data presentation for strategic category/spend portfolio and supplier panel analysis.
• Strategic sourcing experience

PLEASE NOTE: Flexibility to work across global time zones required, including overlap with European (12:30 PM4:30 PM IST) and US (6:30 PM9:30 PM IST) morning business hours.