Associate Procurement Professional

Overview

Processes requisitions and provides support for purchasing, supply chain, sourcing, cost and price analyses, and contract and purchase order generation.

What you'll do

• Develop improvement plans to support buyers and professionals related to Response Time, Lean Targets, Quality, Cost, Logistics, Development, and Management (QCLDM) to enable optimal and efficient operations.
• Perform analysis and maintenance of assigned processes that produce output excellence, build expertise for the assigned process area, and contribute to continuous improvement efforts.
• Support customers and customer proposal efforts with pricing information and supplier selection.
• Perform analytical and administrative tasks in support of purchasing strategic initiatives.

What you'll need

• Working knowledge of data-driven decision making: applies an assigned technique for data-driven thinking, discerns signal from noise when interpreting data, identifies, obtains and organizes relevant data and ideas, participates in choosing KPIs and metrics, and utilizes basic data collection and evaluation tools.
• Basic understanding of analytical thinking: names tools or techniques that support analytical thinking, describes business analytics software, and gives examples of using analytical thinking to resolve problems.
• Working knowledge of effective communications: delivers feedback focused on behaviors, listens to feedback without defensiveness, makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work, avoids technical jargon when inappropriate, and considers non-verbal cues.
• Working knowledge of project management: provides input for Gantt or PERT charts or equivalent, under guidance plans and estimates simple projects, assists in detailed project plans including cost, schedule and resources, obtains stakeholder information during planning, and produces standard project status reports.
• Basic understanding of procurement: identifies major steps and critical paths in a purchasing cycle, explains basic concepts and responsibilities of institutional purchasing, describes major types of materials, products or services purchased, and identifies basic tools for maintaining procurement records.
• Working knowledge of a specific procurement system: uses the system to process routine purchase orders and payments, communicates with professionals on system procedures, troubleshoots common application or data problems, uses software to monitor order status and shipment, and maintains inspection records and procurement documentation.
• Basic understanding of purchasing tasks and activities: identifies basic tools for maintaining procurement information, identifies major types of products or services purchased, explains basic concepts and responsibilities of purchasing tasks, and describes established procurement processes and standards.
• Working knowledge of logistics management: uses tools, with guidance, to forecast delivery times, determine costs and assess performance, works with logistics in a domestic environment, maintains records of shipments and invoices, assists in developing process flows to track lead time, and participates in integrating logistics processes and networks.

Nice to have

• Bachelor's degree from a Tier 1 university or college.

Details

• Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
• Work mode: 5 working days from office.