Ecolab

Provides water, hygiene, infection prevention solutions

Procurement Representative - Procurement Hub

Procurement & SourcingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timePune, Maharashtra, IndiaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

A bachelor's degree in Management, Business, Finance, Engineering, or Supply Chain is required.
Five to seven years of experience in master data, procurement, shared services, finance, supply chain operations, or a related field is required.
Experience managing and delivering multiple projects, tasks, and initiatives simultaneously is required.

Responsibilities

Monitor sourcing project requests, validate inputs with stakeholders, and assign the appropriate team to proceed in the sourcing process.
Manage procurement activities across multiple indirect categories, including IT software, facilities, marketing, and professional services, while ensuring cost efficiency.
Monitor the sourcing email box for incoming support queries and acknowledge them according to service-level agreements.
Handle inquiries from internal customers and external vendors, providing professional, useful, and high-quality service before, during, and after customer requirements are met.
Collaborate with business stakeholders and suppliers to administer an electronic sourcing tool for request-for-quotation, request-for-proposal, and related sourcing events.
Participate in and manage client, business, and supplier calls.
Negotiate supplier rates and make recommendations to the business.
Assist in resolving purchase requisition, purchase order, and invoicing issues.
Identify ways to influence client spend and opportunities to reduce costs.
Create reports and presentation decks for internal procurement and business stakeholders.
Identify process gaps and recommend business process improvements.

Desired Qualifications

An advanced degree in Business, Engineering, Chemistry, or Finance, or an advanced degree in progress, is preferred.
Experience with SAP, GEP, or other Source-to-Pay systems in a procurement or shared-services environment is preferred.
Experience in indirect procurement sourcing or supply chain management is preferred.
Finance, audit, or compliance experience is preferred.

The Procurement Representative – Procurement Hub supports a range of Source to Pay activities, including but not limited to: intake and triage of sourcing project requests, stakeholder and supplier communication and support, setup and administration of RFx events, supplier selection/onboarding, reporting, compliance checks, policy enforcement, rate negotiation, catalog management and procure to pay services.

Responsibilities:

Monitor sourcing project requests, validating inputs with stakeholders, and assignment of appropriate team to proceed in the sourcing process.
Managed procurement activities across multiple indirect categories such as IT software, facilities, marketing, and professional services, ensuring cost efficiency.
Monitor sourcing email box for incoming support queries and acknowledge them as per SLA.
Handling email inquiries from internal customers, as well as external vendors. Delivering professional, useful, high-quality service and assistance before, during, and after the customer's requirements are met.
Collaborate with Business and Suppliers to administer eSourcing tool for RFx events.
Participate and manage client, business, and supplier calls.
Supplier rate negotiation and recommendation to Business.
Aid in resolving Purchase Requisition/Purchase Order/Invoicing issues.
Identify unique ways to influence client spend and opportunities to reduce cost.
Create report generation and presentation decks for internal procurement and business stakeholders.
Identify process gaps in the business process with recommendation for improvement

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in management, Business, Finance, Engineering, or Supply Chain
5-7 years of experience in master data, procurement, shared services, finance, supply chain operations or related field.
Experience with managing and delivering multiple projects, tasks, and initiatives simultaneously

Preferred Qualifications:

Advanced degree in Business, Engineering, Chemistry, or Finance. Or in process of completing an advanced degree
Experience in SAP, GEP or other Source to Pay systems in a procurement or shared services environment
Experience in sourcing Indirect Procurement or supply chain management experience
Finance, audit, compliance experience

Job Location: - Pune

Shift: - 4 PM – 1 AM

About the Company

Ecolab

Provides water, hygiene, infection prevention solutions

Ecolab provides water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services to about three million commercial locations in more than 170 countries. It combines cleaning, sanitizing, disinfection, and water-treatment products with on-site service and data-driven insights to help customers improve safety, cleanliness, and efficiency. Its global scale and breadth across food, healthcare, hospitality and industrial markets, plus a large field service network, differentiate it as an integrated partner rather than a one-off supplier. Its goal is to help customers run safer, cleaner operations while using water and energy more efficiently and reducing environmental impact.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: St Paul, MN
Founded: 1923

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