Strategic Sourcing Analyst

SP Software; Dadri, New Delhi, Gurugram District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm seeks a procurement professional to align with internal stakeholders, identify needs, and manage supplier sourcing for products and services. You will analyze supplier responses, negotiate to minimize total cost of ownership, and manage contracts with suppliers.

The role requires collaboration across teams, driving strategic sourcing initiatives, and maintaining strong supplier relationships to ensure project success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business or related field.
• 4+ years of industry-specific experience in Procurement, Sourcing, or related work experience.

Responsibilities

• Aligns with internal stakeholders to identify needs and requirements.
• Identifies potential service and product suppliers to deliver value and meet project goals.
• Manages the supplier sourcing process for products and services.
• Analyzes supplier responses (e.g., RFP) for accuracy and competitiveness.
• Conducts negotiations to achieve lowest total cost of ownership while meeting objectives.
• Manages supplier contracts and ongoing relationship management.

Skills

Strategic Sourcing

Global Sourcing

International Stakeholder Management

Contract Negotiation

Category Management

Indirect Procurement

Hands-on

Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business or related field

Tools

Excel

Job description

Role & responsibilities

Aligns with internal stakeholders to identify their needs and requirements. Identifies potential service and product suppliers who can deliver best value to Qualcomm and satisfy project goals and objectives. Manages the supplier sourcing process for both products and services. Engages, analyzes, and evaluates supplier responses (e.g., RFP) according to category data, market data, should-cost models, and other analytics for accuracy, competitiveness, and completeness. Conducts negotiations with suppliers to ensure lowest total cost of ownership while achieving mutual goals, benefits, and objectives. Manages supplier contracts including reviewing and executing contracts, and ongoing relationship management activities.

• Bachelor's degree in Business or related field.
• 4+ years of industry-specific experience in Procurement, Sourcing, or related work experience.

dentifies internal stakeholder needs and requirements for large or ambiguous projects.

• Identifies and recommends potential service and product suppliers who can deliver value to Qualcomm based on an expert understanding of stakeholder needs, category expertise, and organizational needs.
• Stays abreast of current and future trends to make suggestions in strategic discussions within a category about market and supplier trends (e.g., cost drivers, technology) to conduct cost modeling and negotiations, shares findings with others.
• Proactively executes go-to-market procurement strategies based upon best practices and needs of the business unit and stakeholder consultation.
• Creates and shares detailed procurement supplier selection criteria specifications to obtain products or services that are aligned with stakeholder needs and project goals.
• Analyzes and evaluates sourcing mechanisms, supplier feedback and responses; identifies and mitigates potential risks, selects appropriate suppliers, ensures accuracy, competitiveness, and completeness.
• Acts as the primary contact with suppliers including initiating the relationship, negotiating highly complex commercial and other legal terms, executes the contract to maximize organizational benefits and objectives and overall management of supplier fulfillment.
• Makes decisions on complex issues that impact business results and arise within one's own area of work.
• Collaborates with individuals inside and outside of own function to integrate projects and/or ensure changes work with other components of a specific project.
• Manages team project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables for small to mid-sized projects.

Level of Responsibility:

• Works independently with little supervision.
• Provides some supervision/guidance to other members; does not have direct reports.
• Decisions are moderate in nature. Errors are detected and corrected with relatively minor financial impact or effect on projects, operations, or customer relationships. May require involvement beyond immediate work group to correct.
• Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey complex and/or detailed information to multiple individuals/audiences with differing knowledge levels. Role may require strong negotiation and influence, communication to large groups or high-level constituents.
• Works within the prescribed budgetary objectives of the department. Erroneous decisions, failure to achieve results may cause delays in schedules and result in the re-allocation of some resources.
• Most tasks require multiple steps which can be performed in various orders; some planning and prioritization must occur to complete the tasks effectively; mistakes may result in some rework.
• Creativity is needed to draft original documents, imagery, or work products within established guidelines.
• Deductive problem solving is required to solve moderately complex problems; most problems have defined processes of diagnosis/detection; some limited data analysis may be required.
• Incumbent's input may be solicited during strategic planning period.

Preferred candidate profile

Experience in Strategic Sourcing, Core Souring, Global sourcing, International Stakeholder management, Contract negotiation, Category management, Marketing Category, Indirect Procurement, HANDSON, Excel