Role: SAP Ariba Consultant
Years of Experience: 8+ Years
Location: Bangalore
- Review supplier contracts ensuring any commercial risks are highlighting and communicating to the business and where possible mitigating those risks
- Ensuring compliance with all applicable policies and procedures.
- Developing procurement plans for assigned commodities and items incorporating negotiation strategies and tactics consistent with the needs of the business
- Providing relevant information to management for tracking of cost reductions/savings
- Working with category manager for strategic planning for IT hardware and software requirements
- Responsible to track, follow up and resolve all appropriate PR and PO issues to ensure process compliance.
- Developing strong relationships with local internal customers and serving as the focal point for all procurement and sourcing activities for the local business
- Maintain purchase order tracking procedures for statistical submission and evaluation of spend.
- Spend Analysis for India & Corporate leaders proactively providing reports, identifying cost efficiency opportunities and ideas to save Cost / reduce inventory / improve supplier performance.
- Act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Purchase function in India
- Collaboration with Global Team, NTTs Global plants and Global suppliers to achieve cost competitive purchasing within stipulated time line, with good quality
- Arrange the sample material for fulfilling the stakeholder requirements..
- Providing local Procurement support for the rollout of SAP and Ariba system
- Fulfillment in short timeframes for stakeholder requirement
