Procurement / Vendor Management Manager

at  Commonwealth Bank

Organization: At CommBank, we never lose sight of the role we play in other people’s financial wellbeing. Our focus is to help people and businesses move forward to progress. To make the right financial decisions and achieve their dreams, targets, and aspirations. Regardless of where you work within our organisation, your initiative, talent, ideas, and energy all contribute to the impact that we can make with our work. Together we can achieve great things.
Job Title: Manager – India Procurement Center
Location: Bengaluru, Manyata Tech Park

ESSENTIAL SKILLS:

• Risk Mindset –All CommBank employees are expected to proactively identify and understand, openly discuss and act on current and future risks.
• At least 9-10 years’ direct and relevant experience in delivering end-to-end sourcing & category management preferably in a centre of excellence and offshoring set-up.
• Solid ability to manage and influence stakeholders and work collaboratively with customers and suppliers.
• Strong numerical, analytical, and PC skills and experience.
• Deep understanding of leading practice procurement technology
• Strong problem solving and decision-making ability.
• Solid interpersonal and communication skills and ability to work collaboratively, as one team.
• Ability to think laterally and develop new and innovative solutions to problems.
• Capability in procurement related risk management.Strong written and verbal communication skills.
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  Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree or higher
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End-to-end category lifecycle-

• Manage and direct the creation, implementation and delivery of an end-to-end category strategy.
• Proactively manage, understand and develop competency in the following areas:
• business category requirements.
• broad and specific business objectives.
• the supply market in detail including leading practice and technology trends.
• spend analysis, demand drivers and demand management strategies.
• risk and appropriate risk mitigation strategies.
• negotiation tactics and strategies.
• contracting approaches.
• Deliver on agreed targets and objectives through the implementation of strategic or tactical procurement strategies/plans, including running RFXs and commercial evaluation of RFXs.
• Utilise product, customer and channel portfolio knowledge and context, as well as data to develop insights and analytical solutions pertaining to business performance.
• Develop effective performance management strategies across all sub-categories and major suppliers in line with the Supplier Governance Framework and in collaboration with the key business owners.
• Take a ‘whole of Group’ view to everything we do and champion the value of a Group wide strategy where we believe it can add additional value to the organisation.
• Identify metrics, tools, strategies and processes to optimise procurement and continually drive productivity.
• Ensure savings and realised benefits are clearly defined, agreed and recorded by the business and procurement team.
• Ensure supplier transition/implementation is managed efficiently and effectively per bank policy and procedure.
• Manage and influence stakeholders and develop stakeholder management capability within the team.

Leadership-

• Interact directly with the GROUP PROCUREMENT, BU Leadership Team to develop, manage and execute procurement strategy.
• Advocate compliance to Bank-wide and Procurement processes and technology.
• Champion GROUP PROCUREMENT across the business, supplier network and industry network

Risk Management-

• Demonstrate a full and comprehensive understanding of risk and risk processes.

• Provide and deploy appropriate process and governance to address all aspects of risk.Ensure that you, comply with Group policies and procedures and any relevant external legislative requirements.