Procurement Associate Director

Overview

Own end-to-end procurement governance for RSM US Integrated's indirect and corporate spend in India, ensuring purchases follow the enterprise procurement framework while reflecting India business, regulatory and market requirements.

What you'll do

• Lead sourcing decisions, vendor selection and negotiated pricing for India procurement within defined thresholds across facilities, IT, travel, professional services, marketing, admin and talent.
• Validate that vendor selection is competitively and commercially justified, price is benchmarked against market or prior contract terms, and quality/service meets the requesting department's stated need.
• Promote an enterprise-wide approach to procurement, reducing fragmented or function-specific buying where aggregation creates better commercial or service outcomes.
• Develop forward procurement pipelines with major functions to reduce reactive or urgent sourcing.
• Run competitive sourcing (RFI/RFP/RFQ) for new vendor requirements above a defined value threshold and negotiate commercial terms directly for locally owned categories.
• Determine the appropriate sourcing route, including competitive tender, global agreement, preferred supplier, single-source or justified exception.
• Maintain a rolling savings and cost avoidance tracker, reported monthly to India leadership.
• Periodically benchmark material categories and contracts against market practices and available alternatives.
• Operate within the enterprise procurement policy, DOA framework and approved vendor standards; do not create exceptions without sign-off from relevant stakeholders.
• Consolidate India demand for globally negotiated categories and feed India-specific demand, supplier, pricing and market inputs into global category planning and negotiations.
• Monitor India utilization and compliance against global contracts, and confirm the India entity has appropriate contractual coverage and that local requirements are addressed.
• Represent India in global procurement forums, surfacing India-specific constraints (regulatory, vendor landscape, currency) and escalating where global arrangements do not meet India commercial, regulatory or operational requirements.
• Act as the single point of contact for functional heads raising procurement needs, translating requirements into a compliant sourcing process without unnecessary friction.
• Provide stakeholders with market intelligence, supplier insights, commercial benchmarks and sourcing recommendations, and challenge requirements where appropriate to improve outcomes or avoid unnecessary spend.
• Set and manage service level expectations for sourcing turnaround time, distinguishing standard requisitions from urgent or exception requests.
• Establish a risk- and value-based supplier segmentation framework for India and maintain the India approved vendor list, including onboarding due diligence (financial health, compliance, data security posture where relevant).
• Establish supplier KPIs, SLAs and performance-review mechanisms in partnership with business owners.
• Coordinate the commercial contracting process with Legal, Finance, Information Security, Risk, Privacy and business owners, ensuring material supplier arrangements are documented through contracts, SOWs, purchase orders or other approved instruments.
• Establish a structured contract-renewal process to prevent automatic or poorly negotiated renewals, and facilitate commercial review of amendments, extensions and scope changes.
• As custodian of the India procurement policy and framework, ensure all India procurement complies with enterprise policy, statutory requirements (GST, TDS, contract law as applicable) and relevant independence rules.
• Produce a monthly procurement governance report to the India Country Leader and India Finance Leader.
• Maintain visibility of procurement exceptions, non-compliant spend and retrospective procurement, and drive corrective actions.
• Maintain an auditable trail for every sourcing decision (vendor comparison, price rationale, approval record) sufficient for internal audit and control testing.
• Support internal audits, statutory reviews and other assurance activities relating to procurement and vendors.

What you'll need

• 14+ years of experience in procurement, sourcing or category management, with at least 3 to 5 years in an India GCC, shared services or professional services environment.
• Demonstrated ownership of an approval or sign-off process, not just sourcing execution; experience operating within a formal framework.
• Working knowledge of indirect procurement categories such as facilities, IT, travel and marketing.
• Experience coordinating with a global or centralized procurement function while managing local execution; comfort operating in a dual accountability structure.
• Familiarity with P2P systems (Ariba, Coupa, or equivalent) and audit/control expectations.
• Strong stakeholder management skills; ability to hold a firm line on policy and price with senior internal stakeholders without becoming an obstacle to the business.

Nice to have

• SOX/ICFR exposure.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.
• Flexibility in schedule offered.