Tender Executive

Role Title: Purchase Associate – Purchase Executive

Reports to: Head Purchase, Automotive

Location: Pune (preferable) OR Bangalore

Purpose of the role:

1. Escalation handling and Operational maintenance:
 Work closely with external vendors and IT stakeholders to maintain and enhance system functionalities including but not limited to vendor master data management, user access management and system maintenance.
 Help strengthen purchasing environment/ processes, systems, and procedures.
 Custodian of roles, authorization & access management across all purchasing systems as per Company policies
 Coordinate internal/ external audits

2. Vendor Master Data process & governance
 Custodian of Vendor Master Data process & governance incl. coordinating with BPO vendors and Global MDM Team + Accounts Payable Team

3. Purchasing Analysis & Reporting
 Support in tracking and reporting Operational KPIs for Purchase function
 Provide internal stakeholders such as category teams, systems, user access or data support as required.
 Design + Maintain new BI reports leveraging data from several different sources such as Excel, text files, SQL databases and spend cubes.
 Support the implementation of digital transformation initiatives
 Support cross functional data requests and analysis in different areas


4. Traits:
 Proactive with hands on approach
 Cross-functional collaboration
 Systems-oriented thinking
 Calm and composed

Qualifications/Skills
 Minimum of 5+ years of relevant work experience in Procurement / Supply Chain to solve problems using technology & data
 Advanced MS-Excel skills
 System familiarity – Infor XA (good to have) + SAP-ARIBA + SAP-MDG (Vendor) + SAP-Hana (basics) + PowerBI + DBMS concepts
 Working knowledge of Purchasing business processes
 Understanding of SDLC in purchasing context (good to have)