Associate Director, Vendor Integration & Strategic Liaison Lead

Overview

Associate Director leading vendor integration and strategic liaison work, focused on optimizing sourcing and category management processes, digital enablement and performance management.

What you'll do

• Lead the assessment, redesign, and optimization of sourcing and category management processes.
• Implement best practices, standardization, and automation to drive efficiency and compliance.
• Develop and maintain process documentation, SOPs, and training materials.
• Partner with IT and platform owners to deploy and enhance digital sourcing tools and analytics platforms.
• Leverage data and advanced analytics to identify improvement opportunities and inform strategic decisions.
• Champion automation and digital workflows to streamline sourcing and category management.
• Define and track KPIs for process performance, user experience, and adoption.
• Analyze performance data and provide actionable insights to the Sr Director and leadership team.
• Drive accountability for continuous improvement and measurable outcomes.
• Proactively seek out and introduce innovative solutions, technologies, and best practices.
• Maintain an active external presence, participating in industry forums, conferences, and professional networks.
• Benchmark processes against industry leaders to ensure the organization remains competitive.
• Engage with stakeholders across procurement, IT, finance, legal, and business units to ensure seamless process integration.
• Facilitate forums for alignment, decision-making, and best practice sharing.
• Develop and execute change management strategies to drive adoption of new processes and tools.
• Communicate process changes effectively and support global training initiatives.
• Gather and incorporate stakeholder feedback to enhance process outcomes.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 10+ years of experience in procurement, sourcing, or process transformation.
• Proven track record in process optimization, digital enablement, and performance management.
• Strong knowledge of sourcing and category management workflows, compliance, and automation.
• Experience implementing digital procurement platforms and analytics tools.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills in a global, matrixed environment.

Nice to have

• Master's degree or MBA.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, TS, India.
• Work model is assigned based on the role's core responsibilities (site-essential, site-by-design, field-based or remote-by-design); see careers.bms.com/ways-of-working.