Tactical Buyer - Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - IBM

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

2 weeks ago

Deepika Kaur

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Deepika Kaur

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Introduction


IBM is seeking highly motivated individuals with comprehensive commercial procurement and client facing or consulting experience to join our team of procurement professionals.

Specifically, we are looking for procurement professionals to join IBM's Global Procurement team in support of IBM Procurement Services business area, servicing IBM's external clients.

Strong Verbal and written skills required.

Your Role and Responsibilities


Roles Responsibility Areas

  • Execute competitive bid events, benchmarking projects
  • Analyze changing client/market conditions
  • Support sourcing projects based on client requirements
  • Communicate and negotiate with clients and suppliers through all levels of organization
  • Perform periodic analysis within managed commodity scope to identify savings, define efficiency opportunities and initiatives that should be undertaken
  • Optimize supply base opportunities across managed commodities
  • Take category guidance from the Category Manager
  • Support client specific category strategy redirect spend through strategic contracts/channels as appropriate
  • Educate and advise clients and suppliers on strategies
  • Interface with strategic sourcing team to implement strategic contracts
  • Promote process efficiencies through focus on automated channels where applicable
  • Identify appropriate potential suppliers to fit client's business objectives
  • Negotiate and contract with exception suppliers driving additional savings and value
  • Track savings in the appropriate tool and store evidence for audit purposes
  • Communicate sourcing instructions to the operations buyers
  • Communicate supplier recommendations to clients based on objective criteria and fit for client business
  • Track and report supplier performance and resolve any supplier performance issues in conjunction with the Category Manager
  • Identify any exception opportunities to the Category Managers and make recommendations on strategic approaches that might be taken
  • Interact with parallel organizations in other geos to assure consistent global approach
  • Act in compliance with all relevant IBM business conduct guidelines and client driven procurement processes

Scope
Can develop and implement recommendations, demonstrates initiative, and contributes to problem solving. Direct responsibilities for operational measurements. Carries out variety of complex activities according to plan within broader area of responsibility, analyses problems. Decision making affecting own work.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

  • 56 years in Procurement and Sourcing.
  • Perform in matrix organization
  • Perform time management, priorities tasks and achieve set targets
  • Ability to complete staffwork to a high standard
  • Keen attention to detail and accuracy
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

  • ERP : Ariba, SAP, Oracle, Coupa
  • MS Office
About Business UnitThe IBM Finance organization is responsible for driving enterprise performance and transformation. We are the financial stewards of IBM, delivering IBM's financial strategy, developing new business models, and mitigating enterprise risk.

Do you have a passion for creating business value? Join our team in accounting, financial planning, pricing, business controls, tax, treasury, business development (acquisitions & divestitures), and global financing.


Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.


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They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers.

The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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