Manager, Strategic Sourcing & Procurement
Manager, Strategic Sourcing & Procurement
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About us
WeWork India is one of Indias leading flexible workspace operators Great Place To Work certified (Nov 2024 Nov 2025) aimed at creating flexible workspace solutions for companies of all sizes.
Since its inception in India in 2016 WeWork India has expanded across 68 operational centres in Chennai New Delhi Gurugram Noida Mumbai Bengaluru Pune and Hyderabad. WeWork India meets distinct workspace needs for various businesses. WeWork India strives to provide customised and curated solutions for various office space needs through its products and solutions.
At WeWork India were driven by collaboration creativity and a shared vision to redefine the future of work. If youre looking to be part of a dynamic fast-growing organisation that values talent and fosters growth join us and build your future with WeWork India.
For more information please visit our website
About the role
The candidates role is to provide strategic sourcing and procurement support. Ensure consistent management of all procurement proposals and contracts. The overall responsibilities may include but not limited to oversight of the operations management process as well as the development of specific standards for RFX contract negotiations warehouse management document management process efficiency stakeholder management reporting analytics and team management
The candidates role requires close collaboration with various departments including Operations/Facilities Community Brand and Marketing IT HR Admin Finance and legal.
Roles and responsibilities
Strategic Sourcing & Procurement
- Develop regular communication with each stakeholder team.
- Ensure that contracts and proposals are correctly entered into organizational databases and securely maintained based on defined SOPs and policies of the company ensuring compliance adherence
- Maintain deadlines on deliverables and communicate on an ongoing basis with business partners and internal stakeholders.
- Develop and execute negotiation strategies that minimize potential losses and benefit the organizations financial performance.
- Assure accuracy and appropriateness of contract text and attachments. - Serve as primary organizational contact during RFX.
- Experience in Warehouse Management & Inventory Management.
- Experience in PO Generation Vendor Relationship Contracts.
- Good negotiation skills in facility infra consumables AMCs R&M B&M and professional services.
- Experience in RFX quote comparison and vendor selection.
- Periodic review of vendor performance to ensure compliance with terms and to identify conflicts or changes requiring resolution at contract renewal.
- Establish analyze and optimize the businesss procurement strategy ensuring alignment with business goals by working with stakeholders to work on a savings pipeline based on the assigned OKRs.
- Managing all audit documentation and auditors.
- Drive and implement e-procurement processes and lead digital transformation initiatives.
- Partner with stakeholders executive leaders and department heads to understand business needs.
- Establish requirements scope and selection criteria for procurement projects.
- Leverage RFx tools to facilitate strategic sourcing.
- Lead initial market research and vendor profiles to aid supplier selection.
- Create issue and manage RFPs in a digital RFP management system. Manage proposal evaluation and final vendor selection.
- Use supplier relationship management best practices throughout negotiation contracting onboarding and renewal.
- Conduct regular vendor performance evaluations and supplier risk assessments.
- Collect and interpret procurement data & manage reporting.
- Use procurement leavers like benchmarking standardization substitution consolidation Porter 5 forces etc.
- Perform regular reviews of established procurement processes to ensure continual improvement.
- Refine policies due diligence questionnaires and RFP templates.
- At some point the candidate will be expected to lead a larger team to drive the function independently.
Experience and qualifications
- Bachelors Degree/Engineering in a related field will be an added advantage.
- Min 10-12 years of work experience in Facilities/Operations/ Indirect procurement
- Good to have knowledge in Spend Management Analysis and Reporting with hands-on Excel Experience
- Communication Skills - Spoken & Written English. Hindi & Kannada will be an added advantage.
- Knowledge of e Sourcing Tools like Ariba / SAP or Equivalent
- Experience in applying organizational standards when developing requests for proposals negotiating terms.
- Ability to systematically analyze complex problems draw relevant conclusions and implement appropriate solutions.
- Excellent negotiating and persuasive skills both in one-on-one and group situations.
- Relationship and conflict management skills
Equal Opportunity Employer
WeWork India is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for our employees and members. Employment decisions are made without regard to race religion national or ethnic origin sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age disability veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
We expect all employees to embody our values and all aspects of employment including the decisions to hire and promote are based on merit competence performance and business needs.
Our total rewards philosophy is aimed at providing compensation that is competitive performance linked and helps us attract and retain the talent we need to drive our business forward and serve our members. As part of WeWork India our commitment to you is that youll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters collaboration flexibility and inclusion.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
