Procurement Practice Associate

Description

Skill required: Procurement management - Sourcing and Procurement Strategy

Designation: Management Level - Associate

Job Location: Bengaluru

Qualifications: Any Graduation

Years of Experience: 1 to 3 years

About Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Technology and Operations services, and Accenture Song— all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 699,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us at www.accenture.com

What would you do?

You will be aligned with our Procurement vertical and help us in the process of finding and agreeing to terms, and acquiring goods, services, or works from an external source, often via a tendering or competitive bidding process. Procurement is used to ensure the buyer receives goods, services, or works at the best possible price when aspects such as quality, quantity, time, and location are compared.

What are we looking for? High Level Competency Requirements & Role Profile

• Experience with supplier contracting and cross functional collaboration.
• Knowledge of project management tools, project valuation / business case calculation.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Preferable master’s degree in laws. Fluent in English. High intermediate in Portuguese. Assist Sourcing team by translating a negotiation into a contract assuring meeting high standard ACN protections and accomplishing policies validations.

Roles and Responsibilities Key Responsibilities

• Execute supplier contracting process in accordance with the procedures described in procurement policies.
• Perform follow-up calls with business contract owner, sourcing agent and supplier in case of need.
• Convert complex sourcing negotiations into a contract using approved legal templates.
• Continuous interaction with legal to propose and give visibility over new negotiations and sourcing categories to update templates.
• Monitor Contract validity. Work with sourcing updating what is needed within the contract upon negotiation..
• Identify possible deviations within negotiated clauses, minimizing related risks and issues, escalate in case of need.
• Drive signature process trough preapproved digital legal tools.
• Provide high quality service to internal customers in response to system, email or telephone enquiries.
• Maintain professional relationships with suppliers.
• Understand the procurement SLA and demonstrate commitment to fulfill KPI targets.
• Administer master data (material, services, suppliers) – change, create, delete in accordance to master data management process.
• Identify updates to procedures and guidelines and recommend them to team lead.

Any Graduation