Skill required: Procurement Operations - Procurement Support
Designation: Procurement Practice Analyst
Qualifications:Any Graduation
Years of Experience:3 to 5 years
Language - Ability:English - Proficient
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What would you do? This role ensures that Global Sourcing and Procurement Services (GS&PS) continuously improves best practice management and reporting that will enable regional teams and businesses to ensure that Ariba’s non-catalog orders are up to date and accurate. Purchasing Agents play a critical role, as they may have the first interaction with the client and must represent GS&PS in a positive and friendly manner. Prior experience in supporting or servicing clients and providing assistance and/or guidance on policies/procedures is required. Purchasing Agents will be required to build an excellent rapport with Sourcing Managers in order to understand and document the various buying mechanisms within different commodity groups. You will be working as a part of Procurement management team which uses a systematic approach for buying all the goods and services needed for a company to stay sustainable. They are involved in the identification of need, finding and qualifying the suppliers, requesting proposals, negotiating with suppliers, contracting, delivery and analyzing results. Duties: Specific duties include: (1) three bids and buy / ad hoc competitive sourcing (2) non-catalog requisition processing including compliance and policy review (3) customer service (4) maintain procedural manuals and process flows. Purchasing Agent may also perform other duties as directed by supervisor. • Ability to master the functionalities of the Ariba Procurement modules (specifically Buyer and Sourcing) • Ability to compile, develop mechanisms and report metrics and SLAs • Ability to analyze data and translate thoughts into report results • Proficient in the use of Ariba, MS Excel (advanced formulas, Pivot tables, etc.), MS Office, Outlook, TBD. • Captures ad-hoc demand and reports out findings to Sourcing Managers
What are we looking for? • Ability to adapt to change • Ability to ensure non-catalog orders are compliant • Ability to find creative and innovative ways to solve issues • Analytical mindset who can predict what a user may need in a report and interpret that into the mining and cleansing of the data • Innate aptitude to improve data to add the most value to the organization • Conversant in procurement and industry specific commodities • Quick learner, must be able to understand and grasp processes, concepts and follow procedures • Extensive client focused position. Must be able to speak and write clearly and professionally when responding to clients • Ability to manage the quality, accuracy, and consistency of work products • Ability to resolve issues and conflicts and prioritize work requests • Solid problem solving skills and attention to detail to identify, investigate and resolve anomalies in the data • Works will in a high pressure, SLA driven environment whereby ensuring that requests are being completed in an accurate and timely fashion • Identifies on a monthly basis which BU’s and individuals need training on how to create a catalog and non-catalog request in Ariba • Assesses web form or Ariba purchase requisition to determine if submission has adequate information to source based on playbook directives • Ability to understand procurement request and determine if good or services is capable of being leveraged against an existing contracts • Ensure terms and pricing is correct for buys against contracts • Ability to determine if a good or services can be fulfilled by an items within AIG’s Ariba catalogs
Roles and Responsibilities: •In this role you are required to do analysis and solving of lower-complexity problems • Your day to day interaction is with peers within Accenture before updating supervisors • In this role you may have limited exposure with clients and/or Accenture management • You will be given moderate level instruction on daily work tasks and detailed instructions on new assignments • The decisions you make impact your own work and may impact the work of others • You will be an individual contributor as a part of a team, with a focused scope of work • Please note that this role may require you to work in rotational shifts