GP Asst Analyst- Indirect

As a Procurement Lead at our India site, your main purpose will be to partner with all functions to meet AOP targets and effectively manage the procurement of Other Goods and Services (OGS) items. You will ensure that the procurement is conducted on time, with the right quality and quantity. Additionally, you will be responsible for vendor relationship management for all key indirect vendors at India sites, lead compliance towards GCS standards, and support AOP and forecasting processes for all indirect spend. Your role will also involve providing key support to all functions in planning/productivity workshops and projects, serving as the subject matter expert for procurement policy at the site, and leading the procurement digitization agenda for India sites. Your responsibilities will include leading indirect & capital procurement at the new India site in alignment with PGCS and Global Procurement Policies, evaluating vendor quotations to ensure technical specifications compliance, establishing annual rate contracts and discount agreements with suppliers, converting purchase requisitions to purchase orders within agreed timeframes, and managing daily operational purchasing needs such as planning, issuing, and following up on purchase orders delivery and shipment schedules. You will also be responsible for vendor relationship management, leading periodic reviews with suppliers, establishing key metrics, driving BCP projects to reduce supply chain dependencies, and developing and presenting plant metrics to management. Furthermore, you will be involved in new/alternate vendor development, supporting other functions during productivity and operating excellence workshops and projects, serving as the SME for SAP Ariba and my buy project roll-out, representing procurement on digitization roadmap, ensuring compliance with GCS standards, evaluating supplier performance based on quality standards, delivery time, and best prices, driving compliance to procurement program management and excellence programs, negotiating annual contracts, and conducting regular trainings on procurement policy, TPDD process, contract management, and vendor creation. To excel in this role, you should have at least 5 years of experience in OGS and Capex procurement, familiarity with SAP and procurement processes, a university degree with post-graduation in management being an added advantage, SAP and analytical skills, excellent written and oral communication, excellent presentation skills, ability to influence key stakeholders, comfort working in an ambiguous and fast-paced environment, negotiating and influencing skills, analytics capability, quick learning capability, high interpersonal effectiveness, multitasking ability, and project management skills.,