Supplier Business Partner - Contingent Workforce

Mercedes-Benz Group; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,200,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercedes-Benz Group in Bengaluru invites applications for an SBP Specialist role within the Strategic Business Partner Team (SBP). The position focuses on evolving suppliers from transactional staffing vendors into trusted capability partners, shaping demand, and ensuring high-quality talent delivery in a complex R&D environment.

As part of the SBP, you will drive workforce intelligence, improve skill deployment, and maintain system discipline across external talent lifecycle while partnering

Qualifications

• Graduation in a relevant field.
• Experience in supplier management or SBP role preferred.

Responsibilities

• Proactively plan demand with business and anticipate needs.
• Improve skill redeployment before fresh hiring.
• Ensure data hygiene across systems and PO processes.
• Elevate supplier maturity from compliance to partnership.
• Lead structured reviews and drive improvement actions.

Skills

Analytical skills

Data-driven

Dashboards

Solutioning

Ownership & accountability

Supplier ecosystem understanding

IT/RD skills space

Fast learner

Education

Graduation

Tools

BI dashboards

Job description

Aufgaben

Supplier Business Partnering Job Description SBP Specialist 022026 Strategic Business Partner Team - SBP At MBRDI, where engineering excellence, scale, and innovation converge, the SBP team plays a critical role in enabling business continuity and growth through disciplined external workforce management. Operating within a complex R&D and GCC environment, SBP integrates Business, Procurement, and Suppliers into a cohesive ecosystem that delivers capability—not just capacity. We anticipate demand, optimize skill deployment, and ensure financial and system integrity across the external talent lifecycle. Our focus is on predictability, partnership, and process excellence, ensuring that MBRDI’s engineering ambitions are supported by a stable, high-quality, and compliant workforce model. SBP focuses on reducing operational friction, strengthen supplier maturity, and create scalable talent solutions aligned to MBRDI’s long-term strategy. Role Purpose Evolve suppliers from transactional staffing vendors into trusted capability partners aligned to business priorities. This role sits at the intersection of Business and Suppliers, proactively shaping demand, improving skill deployment, and ensuring predictable, high-quality talent delivery. The SB Partnership Specialist is a talent strategist, system disciplinarian, and performance integrator.

Core Mandate

• Proactively plan upcoming demands with Business
• Improve skill utilization and redeployment before fresh hiring
• Ensure system and data hygiene across FG / S4
• Elevate supplier maturity from compliance → capability → partnership
• Solve structural issues, not transactions

Key Responsibilities

Business & Talent Partnership

• Work closely with Business Leaders to anticipate demand 60–90 days ahead.
• Challenge JD clarity, skill requirements, and deployment assumptions before roles are released.
• Enable skill redeployment across projects before approving new demand.
• Bring workforce intelligence (availability, skill adjacency, cost, supply risk) into business conversations.

Supplier Performance & Governance

• Own structured supplier scorecards across:
  • Profile quality Supplier Business Partnering Job Description SBP Specialist 022026
  • Speed of response
  • Compliance & documentation
  • Data accuracy
  • Bench readiness
• Lead disciplined monthly and quarterly reviews with clear improvement actions.
• Reduce JD–profile mismatch through structured intake calibration.
• Manage supplier concentration and risk exposure.
• Enforce PO, rate, and documentation discipline.

Proactive Demand & Skill Deployment

• Monitor bench availability across suppliers and internal pools.
• Drive redeployment before release wherever feasible.
• Identify skill adjacencies and alternative fulfillment paths.
• Improve first-time-right submission quality.

System & Data Hygiene

• Ensure clean master data alignment (Vendor, Role, Cost Center, PO).
• Reduce rate mismatches and PO discrepancies.
• Eliminate manual workarounds through process discipline.
• Track recurring system errors and drive structural fixes.
• Improve demand-to-PO data consistency to reduce financial variance.

Continuous Improvement & Problem Solving

• Identify recurring friction in sourcing, onboarding, or billing cycles.
• Lead root-cause resolution across SBP, Suppliers, and Systems.
• Improve workflow discipline using structured review cadences.
• Escalate systemic risks early—not after escalation.

Market & Talent Intelligence

• Stay informed on:
  • Emerging skills
  • Rate movements
  • Talent scarcity trends
  • Supplier capability evolution
• Bring proactive recommendations to BRMs and HRBPs.
• Inform decisions on build vs buy vs redeploy.

Skills & Mindset

• Supplier ecosystem understanding
• Ability to learn the IT/RD skills space
• Comfort with data, dashboards, and solutioning
• Strong analytical skills
• Curious, fast-learning, digitally fluent
• Problem solver, not task executor
• High sense of accountability and ownership

Qualifikationen

Graduation