Specialist, Commodity Management & Sourcing

Overview

Support the Indirect Sourcing and Global Procurement CoE teams with spend analytics, RFx preparation, contract lifecycle management, digital procurement tools, and stakeholder project support.

What you'll do

• Establish and maintain a database for global and regional indirect spend categories.
• Collect, cleanse, validate, and analyze spend data across ERP, procurement, supplier, and contract sources.
• Perform spend analysis for RFQ, RFP, lifecycle analysis, savings opportunity assessment, and ROI evaluation.
• Develop category reports, dashboards, spend baselines, supplier views, and executive-ready analytical insights.
• Identify spend trends, supplier consolidation opportunities, compliance gaps, sourcing levers, and value creation opportunities.
• Prepare RFQ, RFP, and RFI packages using spend analytics, market research, supplier information, and benchmarking inputs.
• Support sourcing event planning, bid documentation, supplier response tracking, and comparative analysis.
• Engage internal stakeholders to understand RFx scope of work, business requirements, dependencies, and timelines.
• Support lifecycle cost analysis, bid evaluation, supplier scoring, recommendation summaries, and sourcing decision support.
• Maintain sourcing trackers, action logs, documentation repositories, and approval evidence for audit-ready execution.
• Update and maintain procurement contract databases and contract-related trackers.
• Provide early indicators to Category Leaders for expiring contracts, renewal windows, missing documentation, and non-compliance risks.
• Support contract lifecycle analysis, contract repository hygiene, amendment tracking, and obligation visibility.
• Coordinate with Legal, Finance, Category Leaders, and stakeholders to support contract execution, renewal, and compliance follow-up.
• Maintain visibility to contract status, ownership, actions, dependencies, and escalation needs.
• Manage, integrate, upgrade, and improve digital procurement tools used for spend intelligence, sourcing support, and reporting, such as SAP Ariba, Coupa, Fairmarkit, spend analytics platforms, and reporting tools.
• Work with Digital and Process Improvement teams to identify, prioritize, and deploy opportunities to streamline and standardize procurement processes.
• Support requirements gathering, UAT, data validation, reporting enhancements, training material creation, and user adoption activities.
• Recommend automation and analytics opportunities to improve sourcing support, contract visibility, and category performance reporting.
• Support Category Leaders with communication, training, internal meeting preparation, leadership updates, and project execution.
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders on deliverables, timelines, ownership, dependencies, risks, and open actions.
• Prepare meeting materials, presentation packs, communication notes, training content, and status updates.
• Drive follow-through on project milestones, risk mitigation actions, issue resolution, and stakeholder commitments.
• Operate independently and as part of a team to complete assigned tasks with high quality and within agreed timelines.
• Identify opportunities to standardize sourcing support, spend reporting, contract tracking, and stakeholder engagement processes.
• Support development of SOPs, playbooks, templates, governance routines, and reporting standards.
• Track operational metrics such as RFx cycle time, spend analytics turnaround time, contract expiration visibility, stakeholder requests, and reporting accuracy.
• Promote disciplined documentation, compliance, and process adherence across procurement activities.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across Indirect Sourcing and the Global Procurement CoE.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration, Finance, Engineering, Economics, or related discipline; equivalent practical experience may be considered.
• 6-10 years of experience in an international procurement organization, preferably supporting indirect procurement or global sourcing teams.
• 5-8 years of relevant experience in sourcing support, contract lifecycle management, spend analysis, procurement operations, or category management support.
• Experience supporting RFQ, RFP, and RFI processes, including market research, benchmarking, supplier analysis, bid evaluation, and documentation.
• Strong analytical skills with proven comfort in spend analysis, lifecycle analysis, ROI evaluation, and policy compliance assessment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint with ability to prepare executive-ready analysis, reports, and presentations.
• Ability to independently and collaboratively complete assigned tasks with excellent results while meeting agreed deadlines.
• Ability to make decisions and drive task completion in situations where absolute clarity does not exist.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

Nice to have

• Experience with digital procurement tools such as SAP Ariba, Coupa, Fairmarkit, or similar sourcing, spend intelligence, and contract management platforms.
• Exposure to Power BI, Tableau, advanced Excel reporting, analytics dashboards, or spend intelligence platforms.
• Experience supporting global indirect sourcing, procurement transformation, or procurement CoE operating models.
• Knowledge of contract lifecycle management, procurement governance, sourcing methodology, supplier management, and compliance tracking.
• Project management, Lean Six Sigma, procurement certification, or equivalent continuous improvement exposure.

Details

• Location: Building No: 12C, Floor 9,10,11, Building No: 12B - Stilt floor, Raheja Mindspace, Cyberabad, Madhapur, Hyderabad - 500081, Telangana, India.