Senior Sourcing Specialist

Wenger & Watson; Chennai District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Wenger & Watson in Chennai, India seeks a procurement professional to own end-to-end category management, drive savings, lead sourcing (RFI/RFQ), and collaborate with technical experts.

You will negotiate with suppliers, manage stakeholder expectations up to senior leadership, and integrate factors like supplier diversity and digitization into the process. Strong Excel and self-motivation are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in end-to-end procurement or category management.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end ownership of categories in scope, including project identification and prioritization.

Skills

Sourcing leadership

Spend analysis

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Project ownership

Tools

Excel

Job description

• Full end-to-end ownership of categories in scope, including project identification, sourcing leadership, and prioritization in alignment with the Category Manager. Responsible for managing the savings plan to deliver significant value.
• Lead and integrate assigned portfolio of spend related to M&A activities.
• Building a project pipeline, leading the sourcing process (RFI and RFQ) with the support of technical experts, including negotiations with suppliers.
• Obtain significant cost savings in your Categories of scope/Projects for XX companies with increasing level of quality and lower delivery time.
• Managing relationship with stakeholders up to ELE Presidents and effectively collaborate with key stakeholders to understand the laboratory business requirements, align on goals and drive sourcing initiatives.
• Influence and lead the change management (including set-up of test plans) to ensure sourcing practices, processes and tools are adopted across the organization.
• Research (social media, websites, etc) to gain market information, cost and risk management assessments.
• Sound analytical skills and use of Excel to conduct both executive and detailed level spend analysis, analyzing trends, ability to link and leverage spend and find savings opportunities.
• Preparing reports and presentations for management and communicating key insights to stakeholders.
• Integrating organizational measures like supplier diversity, sustainability, cash flow improvement, automation, digitization etc into the process of the scope managed.
• Leading negotiations with suppliers across a spectrum of complexity, from straightforward agreements to intricate, multi-faceted contract, often collaborating with supplier leadership.
• Knowledge of legal and contractual issues and negotiating contracts.
• Organize priorities and projects with the ability to adapt to Purchasing department/customer/business needs.
• Self-motivation, performance driven mind-set to identify priorities and deliver within agreed deadlines.
• Although on the job training would be provided, success in this role hinges on candidate’s ability to work autonomously, manage tasks without requiring constant oversight, and demonstrate a strong capacity for self-directed learning on the job.
• Being agile and adaptable to XX and team needs, which may include potential assignment of new goals and adjustments in roles and responsibilities within the Purchasing