Supplier Management Specialist

RX Brasil; Chennai; Hybrid; INR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Flexible working arrangement

Employee assistance program

Medical screening

New baby gift

Free transport (Chennai)

Job summary

Elsevier is hiring a Supplier Management Specialist in Chennai, India to drive strategic supplier performance across quality, cost, and service. You will build partnerships that foster accountability and continuous improvement while collaborating with cross-functional teams to strengthen end-to-end supply chain resilience.

The role involves managing supplier scorecards, contracts, tenders, and spend analytics, with emphasis on risk mitigation and value realization.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to monitor progress, take ownership, and drive accountability.
• Strong communication and coaching skills; able to explain complex topics clearly.

Responsibilities

• Supplier Performance Management: Maintain scorecards, KPIs, reports, reviews, and meetings. Monitor contracts and SLAs. Address gaps with corrective actions to improve service, quality, cost, and operations.
• Contract Management: Manage supplier contracts through lifecycle; support renewals, amendments, and extensions; ensure records accessible; coordinate with Procurement and Legal.
• Tender and Supplier Selection Support: Assist in RFPs/RFIs; contribute to evaluations, due diligence; onboarding and transitions; define performance expectations.
• Financial and Commercial Management: Track spend, volumes, and cost trends; verify pricing; report spend and performance; support invoice checks and payment resolution.
• Risk and Business Continuity: Assess risks across operational, financial, geopolitical, cybersecurity, sustainability; maintain risk registers; support continuity plans.
• Supplier Governance: Ensure policy and regulatory compliance; onboarding and governance; review certifications; escalate issues.
• Data, Reporting, and Insights: Maintain dashboards; analyze data; identify trends; support forecasting and capacity planning.
• Collaboration: Partner with Procurement, Operations, Finance, Customer Service, Planning, Risk, Legal; promote end-to-end supply chain.

Job description

Supplier Management Specialist

Are you passionate about managing strategic supplier performance, contracts, and partnerships to improve quality, service, cost, and operational outcomes? Would you enjoy using data, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement to manage risk and strengthen an end-to-end supply chain?

About the Team

Print Supply Chain Management is responsible for printing/manufacturing books, demand forecasting, deciding where products should be produced, and distribution, warehousing, transportation, stocking, and print-on-demand fulfillment.

About the Role

The role requires driving the performance of strategic suppliers to deliver quality, service, cost, and value; build strong supplier partnerships that promote accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement; and collaborate across the Supply Chain to strengthen resilience, manage risk, and deliver end-to-end business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Supplier Performance Management: Manage strategic supplier performance. Maintain scorecards, KPIs, reports, reviews, and meetings. Monitor contracts and SLAs. Address gaps through corrective actions. Improve service, quality, cost, and operations. Build strong relationships and maintain commercial governance.
• Contract Management: Manage supplier contracts throughout their lifecycle. Monitor obligations, pricing, and service commitments. Support renewals, amendments, and extensions. Maintain accessible records. Work with Procurement and Legal to clarify contract terms.
• Tender and Supplier Selection Support: Support sourcing and tender activities. Contribute to RFPs, RFIs, evaluations, and due diligence. Assist with supplier assessments, onboarding, and transitions. Define performance and service expectations.
• Financial and Commercial Management: Track supplier spend, volumes, and cost trends. Measure results against budgets and targets. Support invoice checks and payment resolution. Verify pricing and identify savings. Report spend, volume, and performance.
• Risk and Business Continuity: Work with Risk Management and Operations. Assess operational, financial, geopolitical, cybersecurity, sustainability, and compliance risks. Maintain risk registers and track mitigation actions. Support continuity plans, incident management, and reviews.
• Supplier Governance: Ensure compliance with company policies, regulations, sustainability commitments, and ethical standards. Support onboarding and ongoing governance. Review compliance records and certifications. Escalate issues appropriately.
• Data, Reporting, and Insights: Maintain supplier dashboards and reports. Analyse operational and commercial data. Identify trends and improvement opportunities. Report to key stakeholders. Support forecasting and capacity planning.
• Collaboration: Partner with Procurement, Operations, Finance, Customer Service, Planning, Risk Management, Legal, and other teams. Prevent silos and share expertise. Support cross-training, supplier transitions, business changes, and major projects. Promote an integrated, end-to-end supply chain.

Requirements

Demonstrate a strong commitment to achieving goals. Monitor progress regularly, take responsibility for group outcomes, and encourage accountability and ownership. Recognise and share credit for contributions. Serve as a subject matter expert and provide coaching and mentoring to others. Explain complex technical matters clearly and adapt communication to suit the audience. Remain current within the discipline, build external connections, and apply best practices. Provide clear instructions and direction. Listen actively, ask effective questions, and consider different viewpoints. Explain the wider business context clearly. Manage unexpected situations independently and act with confidence. Remove obstacles and follow through on agreed actions. Encourage initiative by providing appropriate information, resources, and support while maintaining individual ownership of goals and achievements. Ask relevant questions and gather facts from multiple sources. Identify and analyse problems, recommend suitable solutions, and manage routine issues independently. Promote cooperation across the team. Remove barriers that affect team performance and support the effective resolution of conflicts. Identify opportunities for teams to collaborate. Seek input and expertise from team members, and encourage open, constructive discussion on matters affecting the team. Provide support without reducing individual ownership. Help individuals and teams achieve their objectives, and recognise shared contributions to successful outcomes.

Shift Timings

2pm-11pm

Working remotely

from home up to 3 days a week and in our office in a hybrid style

Working flexible hours

flexing the times you work in the day

Benefits

• Comprehensive Health Insurance: Covers you, your immediate family, and parents.
• Enhanced Health Insurance Options: Competitive rates negotiated by the company.
• Group Life Insurance: Ensuring financial security for your loved ones.
• Group Accident Insurance: Extra protection for accidental death and permanent disablement.
• Flexible Working Arrangement: Achieve a harmonious work-life balance.
• Employee Assistance Program: Access support for personal and work-related challenges.
• Medical Screening: Your well‑being is a top priority.
• Modern Family Benefits: Maternity, paternity, and adoption support.
• Long‑Service Awards: Recognizing dedication and commitment.
• New Baby Gift: Celebrating the joy of parenthood.
• Subsidised Meals in Chennai: Enjoy delicious meals at discounted rates.
• Various Paid Time Off: Take time off with Casual Leave, Sick Leave, Privilege Leave, Compassionate Leave, Special Sick Leave, and Gazetted Public Holidays.
• Free Transport pick up and drop from the home -office - home (applies in Chennai)

About the Business

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals' advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world. We know your well‑being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click here to access benefits specific to your location. We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form or please contact 1-855-833-5120. We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. USA Job Seekers: EEO Know Your Rights. Elsevier is a global leader in advanced information and decision support for science and healthcare. We believe that by working together with the communities we serve, we can shape human progress to go further, happen faster, and benefit all. We support continuous discovery and uphold the highest standards of content integrity, reliability, and reproducibility so the communities we serve can advance their field of science, healthcare or innovation with confidence. By combining high-quality content with powerful analytics, we transform complexity into clarity and deliver mission‑critical insights that help professionals make better decisions when it matters most. We deliver insights that help research institutions, governments, and funders achieve their goals. We help researchers discover and share knowledge, collaborate, and accelerate innovation. We help librarians provide verified, quality information to universities. We help innovators turn knowledge into new products. We help health professionals improve patient care and educators train the next generation of doctors and nurses. Connecting quality content and innovative technologies, we make progress go further and happen faster. And by championing inclusion and sustainability, we ensure progress benefits all. With 9,500 employees, over 2,300 technologists in 5 major tech hubs, and more than 60 locations across the globe, we are committed to supporting the scientific and healthcare communities around the world. We offer a diverse range of opportunities across technology, commercial, business, and early career jobs. If you are looking for a career that inspires progress in science, innovation and health, and allows you to grow every day, find your team at Elsevier. Elsevier is part of RELX Group. Let’s shape progress together. Join us. elsevier.com/about/careers