
Assistant Category Manager - Software Procurement
- Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Managing a pipeline of scheduled software renewals
- Leading negotiations for new contracts and amendments
- Create payment plans for each platform
- Maintain regular meetings with key stakeholders to understand their requirements and align with their strategy
- Define and lead supplier qualification, sourcing evaluation, and decision criteria with business stakeholders
- Manage and execute RFI/RFP’s and act as single point of contact for supplier during negotiations
- Facilitate technical scope discussions.
- Prepare and negotiate contracts in close collaboration with legal counsel and project team.
- Enable high level of engagement and collaboration with suppliers
- Support the business functions and business units in resolving supplier delivery, quality measurement, commercial or contractual issues post sign-off, supplier relationship management
- Ability to gather and analyze business and market intelligence to assist strategic decision making for the software category, whilst having significant responsibility to manage end-to-end sourcing and contract lifecycle activities
- 3+ years in a similar role
- Good understanding of Software Procurement
- Excellent negotiation skills and contractual / legal knowledge to deliver on procurement projects and category lifecycle management
- Technical understanding of various IT / Tech. concepts and industry trends.
- Proactive collaboration with suppliers, business partners and key stakeholders with a high level of urgency and delivery in a time critical environment.
- Ability to manage internal & external stakeholders efficiently.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong analytical skills to effectively scrutinize data