Supplier Business Partner - Contingent Workforce

Daimler AG (Canada)

Bengaluru

On-site

INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India Private Limited in Bengaluru, India, seeks a SBP Specialist to evolve suppliers from transactional staffing vendors into trusted partners. The role sits at the intersection of Business and Suppliers, shaping demand, improving skill deployment, and ensuring quality talent delivery.

The candidate will contribute to predictable, compliant external workforce management within a complex R&D environment, driving continuous improvement and data-driven

Qualifications

Graduation is required.

Responsibilities

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.
Anticipate demand 60–90 days ahead with Business Leaders.
Bring workforce intelligence (availability, skill adjacency, cost, supply risk) into business conversations.
Own structured supplier scorecards across Profile quality, Supplier Business Partnering, and governance.
Monitor bench availability and drive redeployment prior to release.
Enforce PO, rate, and documentation discipline.

Education

Graduation

Job description

Description

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
- Emerging skills
- Rate movements
- Talent scarcity trends
- Supplier capability evolution Supplier Business Partnering Job Description SBP Specialist 022026
- 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