Senior Group Manager - Procurement Services at WNS Global Services

Pune, maharashtra, India -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

08 Jun, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

10 Mar, 26

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Category Management, Procurement Delivery, Category Planning, Tool Development, Template Creation, Coaching, Project Pipeline Development, Stakeholder Engagement, Spend Data Analysis, Requirements Gathering, Market Research, Intelligence Sharing, Governance, Change Management, Indirect Procurement, Sourcing

Industry

Business Consulting and Services

Description

Company Description WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), is a leading Business Process Management (BPM) company. We combine our deep industry knowledge with technology and analytics expertise to co-create innovative, digital-led transformational solutions with clients across 10 industries. We enable businesses in Travel, Insurance, Banking and Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods, Shipping and Logistics, Healthcare, and Utilities to re-imagine their digital future and transform their outcomes with operational excellence.We deliver an entire spectrum of BPM services in finance and accounting, procurement, customer interaction services and human resources leveraging collaborative models that are tailored to address the unique business challenges of each client. We co-create and execute the future vision of 400+ clients with the help of our 44,000+ employees. Job Description The Category Group Manager role is a member of an established WNS-Procurement Delivery team, supporting WNS-Procurement’s client with category management activities. This role will work with the Client Category Managers side by side, and perform category management activities as assigned including, but not limited to:o Supporting the development of category planso Creating Category Management tools and templateso Category Management coachingo Development of an actionable project pipelineo Assisting Client Category Managers to engage business stakeholders, understand their categories and to deliver resultsThe WNS-Procurement Category Manager will act as a liaison between the Client Category Managers and other WNS-Procurement delivery team members, reviewing projects and making decisions based on defined category plans as needed.Key Responsibilities / Job Duties:o Act as an active team member of the WNS-Procurement Category Management community, and support category management projects, plan development, governance, communication and change management on behalf of, and/or in cooperation with Client Category Managers.o Document and maintain WNS-Procurement category playbookso Provide improvements and refinements to Category Management tools and templateso Work with Client Category Managers to develop and document standard templates and category job aids to be used for ongoing execution activitieso Provide coordination and support as requested for category workshops, supplier presentations, governance meetings across clientso Assist Client Category Managers with category plan development and improvement including but not limited to overall spend data analysis and summary, category plan discussions with business stakeholders, provide assistance with requirements gathering, overall category plan documentationo Research market knowledge and intelligence and share findings with execution and client resources Qualifications Bachelors Degree or equivalent work experience is required, MBA preferredo Minimum 10+ years of related work experience within procurement, category management, sourcing, procurement consulting, or financial/business analyst capacityo Expertise in an Indirect procurement category is preferred, such as HR, IT, Marketing, Travel, Facilities and Real Estate, or other related category

Responsibilities

This role involves actively supporting the WNS-Procurement Category Management community by assisting Client Category Managers with project execution, plan development, governance, and communication. Key duties include documenting playbooks, refining management tools, and coordinating workshops and meetings across client stakeholders.