SENIOR ANALYST, PROCUREMENT

Walmart; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic individual to join their Global Procurement team in Tech Procurement. This role involves leading supplier negotiations, developing sourcing strategies, and managing stakeholder relationships. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful sourcing outcomes while maintaining the highest levels of confidentiality. This innovative firm offers a flexible hybrid work environment, promoting collaboration and personal growth. If you have a passion for procurement and want to make a significant impact, this is the opportunity for you.

Benefits

Incentive awards for performance

Maternity and parental leave

Health benefits

Paid time off (PTO)

Qualifications

• 4-8 years of experience in end-to-end IT Sourcing & Procurement.
• Strong negotiation skills and experience in vendor management.

Responsibilities

• Lead supplier negotiations and develop sourcing strategies.
• Manage multiple project initiatives for supplier sourcing.

Skills

Negotiation Skills

Project Management

Communication Skills

Analytical Skills

Detail Oriented

Team Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, economics, or related field

Graduate or Postgraduate

Tools

ERP (Coupa/Ariba/SAP)

MS Office

Negotiation tools (eAuction, Clean Sheet Costing, TCO model)

Job description

Position Summary...

Location: Bengaluru, India

Shift Timings: Night shift

About Global Procurement

The Global Procurement team is creating sustainable competitive advantage through flawless execution strategy which involves coordination and integration of business needs, best suppliers, and best practices with the support of spend analysis. Our focus is to continuously grow talent with diversity, build world-class hiring programs, build world-class supply base management, deliver value, and protect the company.

Job Summary:

You will be a part of the Global Procurement supporting in the Tech Procurement area. As a part of this team, you will be responsible for supporting and aligning with business initiatives, organization goals, and actions focused on sourcing projects. An individual in this position will be expected to perform additional job-related responsibilities and duties as assigned and/or necessary.

What you will do:

• Leading negotiation – Supports supplier negotiations by creating cost models of different contract variables (for example, implementation costs and travel and expense costs); running scenarios to determine business benefits; assessing range of negotiation outcomes; and executing defined negotiation strategies to ensure business needs are met.
• Category Management: Supports in the development of sourcing and procurement strategy by working with the Category Team to identify internal business needs; aligning sourcing process to the category strategies; developing and compiling requests for Information (RFIs) and requests for proposal (RFPs); summarizing RFI and RFP responses to help the business assess supplier ability to meet business needs; collaborating with cross-functional teams (for example, suppliers, category managers, legal, finance, accounting) to ensure clarification of requirements; providing input based on the end-to-end sourcing process; and presenting information and findings to negotiating teams to drive negotiation strategy development.
• Developing supplier relationships – Participates in supplier selection and justification of supplier selection by partnering with stakeholders through conducting a comprehensive analysis of data from multiple sources; developing comparisons of supplier responses to normalize submissions; presenting the conclusions in an easy to understand and actionable manner; and creating quantification and documentation of savings to support business goals.
• Stakeholder Management: Manages multiple project initiatives for supplier sourcing to achieve desired results by ensuring understanding of scope of work; organizing timelines and deliverables; working with cross-functional teams to ensure timelines related to sourcing and contract goals are met; taking corrective action to address any issues, and reporting results and deliverables to supervisors and stakeholders.
• Should have managed high spend projects independently and have led pricing negotiations at the project level with vendors across categories.
• Prepare budgeting, spend analysis and should be able to review the first draft of contracts from commercial & legal prospects.
• Research and provide vendor information to support vendor management by collaborating with management to identify internal business needs.
• Understand standard sourcing practices and techniques and work independently with suppliers to meet the business requirement and applicable terms & conditions.
• Provide details on vendor options and compile requests for information (RFI) and requests for Proposal (RFP) to drive decision making.
• Support category leads in Category Strategy/ Goals/ Renewals/Sustainability/ Diverse Spend /Pay term Negotiations.
• Independently collaborate with suppliers to provide clarifications to vendors on business requirements.
• Provide input and vendor recommendations to senior team members to facilitate contract negotiations.
• Execute standardized sourcing processes and strategies for assigned categories/subcategories/domain.
• Maintain the highest levels of commercial confidentiality in all aspects of the entire sourcing process.

What you will bring:

Minimum qualifications:

• Graduate or Postgraduate
• Should have 4-8 years of experience in end-to-end IT Sourcing & Procurement and have led vendor negotiations independently (Preferred: Strategic Sourcing experience for Technology Procurement)
• Understanding of Negotiation tools like eAuction, Clean Sheet Costing, TCO model, Kraljic matrix etc.
• Detail oriented, organized team player; flexible, dynamic, and proactive individual; easily accepts constructive input.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills with the ability to communicate to stakeholders from different continents.
• Excellent presentation and MS Office skills.
• Experience in ERP (Coupa/Ariba/SAP) and Procurement tools is preferred.
• Associate is expected to work in US support hours.

About Walmart Global Tech

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts, and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Flexible, hybrid work:

We use a hybrid way of working with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits:

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers, and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas, and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

Minimum Qualifications:

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Minimum Qualifications: Option 1: Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, economics, technology, or related field. Option 2: 2 years' experience in procurement strategy, contract management, analytics, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Primary Location:

Pardhanani Wilshire II, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli, India