About the role

We are hiring a Sourcing & Procurement Team Leader / Subject Matter Expert in Bangalore to lead a procurement operations team of 10 to 15 members for a client organization. You will manage day-to-day delivery and SLAs, create and administer contracts and catalogs, resolve queries from requesters and suppliers, and support category teams. You will also run process controls, quality plans and risk mitigation, and drive process improvement. The role suits a procurement professional with 6 to 10 years of experience, including time as a team leader, and exposure to Oracle, Coupa and SAP. The salary is up to ₹12 LPA.

Key responsibilities

Team and delivery

• Lead a team of 10 to 15 members, including recruitment, training and attrition management
  
• Manage processes and metrics day to day, and meet SLAs
  
• Work with the client organization on delivery requirements
  

Procurement operations

• Create and administer contracts and catalogs, and monitor compliance
  
• Resolve queries from requesters and suppliers
  
• Support category teams with administrative tasks such as spend consolidation, data rework and purchase order review
  
• Identify and resolve exceptions
  

Controls and improvement

• Set up process controls, quality plans and risk mitigation initiatives
  
• Identify potential risks and build mitigation plans
  
• Keep governance, controls and compliance strong
  
• Drive process improvement
  

Required qualifications and experience

• 6 to 10 years of experience in sourcing and procurement
  
• Experience as a Team Leader in a sourcing or procurement process
  
• Experience managing domestic and international suppliers or customers
  
• Excellent understanding of sourcing and procurement
  
• Exposure to ERP systems: Oracle, Coupa and SAP
  
• Knowledge of MS Office
  
• Excellent spoken and written English
  
• Strong collaboration, influencing, analytical and team leadership skills
  
• Result-oriented
  
• Minimum 15 years of full-time education (10 + 2 + 3)
  

Job details

Why join

• Lead a procurement team on a global client account
  
• Salary of up to ₹12 LPA
  
• Hands-on work with Oracle, Coupa and SAP
  
• Clear path to procurement operations manager roles