Manager, Performance & Analytics -Procurement Sustainability

Overview

Lead sustainability across indirect procurement categories (Logistics, Marketing, Facilities Management, IT and other indirect spend), acting as a trusted consultant to Category teams, owning the Procurement Sustainability performance-management rhythm, and coordinating the Sustainability Champions network.

What you'll do

• Lead the sustainability agenda across indirect Procurement categories, including Logistics, Marketing, Facilities Management, IT, Professional Services and other indirect spend areas.
• Act as a trusted consultant to Category teams, helping them identify priorities, embed sustainability into category strategies and sourcing activity, and develop credible delivery roadmaps.
• Partner with Category Managers to identify and shape high-impact initiatives, such as lower-carbon logistics, sustainable marketing materials and services, energy and waste improvements in facilities, circular solutions and supplier renewable electricity.
• Translate ambitions into practical supplier requirements, engagement plans and implementation support.
• Own the Procurement Sustainability performance-management framework, including scorecards, targets, milestones, initiative tracking and governance.
• Chair or coordinate regular performance calls, challenge delivery constructively, document actions and escalate material risks or dependencies.
• Coordinate sustainability inputs to Annual Business Planning (ABP), budgets and forecasts.
• Maintain visibility of planned investment, cost headwinds, benefits and resource requirements, and support initiative owners in preparing robust assumptions and business cases.
• Maintain reliable sustainability scorecards and management information by coordinating data from category teams, suppliers and programme owners.
• Analyse performance, identify trends and gaps, and provide concise updates for Procurement and Sustainability leadership while supporting internal and external reporting requirements.
• Coordinate and energise the Procurement Sustainability Champions network, maintaining a regular communication and engagement cadence.
• Connect champions with initiative progress, subject-matter experts and external partners, curate relevant training and tools, and enable the sharing and replication of good practice.
• Build trusted relationships across Procurement, Finance, Sustainability and business functions, influencing without direct authority.
• Clarify accountabilities, facilitate decisions and strengthen category teams' capability to integrate sustainability into everyday commercial activity.

What you'll need

• University degree or equivalent experience in Sustainability, Supply Chain, Procurement, Business, Environmental Science or a related discipline.
• Minimum of three years' experience in procurement, sustainability, consulting, programme management or performance management.
• Proven experience in procurement sustainability, category management, programme management or a related field, ideally covering indirect spend categories.
• A practical understanding of sustainability opportunities and risks across categories such as Logistics, Marketing, Facilities Management, IT and Professional Services.
• Strong consulting, communication and influencing skills, with the ability to provide pragmatic advice, challenge constructively and align stakeholders across functions and regions.
• Strong analytical and performance-management capability, including experience with scorecards, budgets, forecasts, business planning, management reporting and governance routines.
• The ability to convert complex sustainability priorities and data into clear actions, decisions and messages for Category teams and senior leaders.
• Experience coordinating a community or network, developing capability and sustaining engagement through communications, training and knowledge sharing.
• Demonstrated ability to manage scorecards, KPIs, budgets, forecasts, ABP inputs, governance meetings and action tracking, with strong attention to data quality and deadlines.
• Working knowledge of Scope 3 emissions, sustainable procurement and relevant indirect-category levers.
• Experience diagnosing needs, structuring work, facilitating stakeholders and supporting global or cross-functional projects from concept through delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate organisational complexity, collaborate across teams, influence without authority and manage escalations and business impacts.
• Ability to coordinate and motivate a distributed community, maintain an effective engagement cadence and connect colleagues with experts, partners, training and practical tools.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills in fluent English, with the ability to communicate clearly with both specialists and senior stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Exposure to indirect categories.
• Familiarity with supplier engagement, carbon accounting, renewable energy, circularity or sustainable sourcing.
• Experience in the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) sector or another complex global organisation.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru Campus 31.
• Job posting end date: 2026-11-11.