Procurement Manager

Job Title: Procurement Manager

Location: Mumbai
Job Type: Onsite – Work from Office

Role Summary

Procurement Lead responsible for end-to-end sourcing, vendor management, negotiations, contracts coordination, governance, MIS, and reporting across IT / telecom / data center, software,  admin, marketing, and professional services categories. The ideal candidate should bring a mix of IT and Non-IT procurement experience, with stronger focus on Opex procurement, 10+ years of experience, strong RFQ/RFP, vendor evaluation, cost control, compliance, communication, and advanced Excel skills.

About Neysa

Neysa is an AI Acceleration Cloud System provider that helps businesses discover, deploy, and scale Generative AI and AI use cases securely and cost-effectively through purpose-built platforms and services.

Our platforms—Neysa Velocis, Neysa Overwatch, and Neysa Aegis—accelerate AI deployment, optimize performance, and secure AI/ML landscapes.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Sourcing & Category Procurement

• Manage end-to-end procurement from requirement clarification, sourcing, RFQ/RFP, evaluation, negotiation, PO processing, delivery tracking, and closure.

• Own IT, data center, infrastructure, and software procurement, including servers, storage, networking, racks, PDUs, cabling, licenses, SaaS, cloud, monitoring, and security tools.

• Support Non-IT procurement such as admin, facilities, travel, security, agencies, events, branding, merchandise, printing, and campaign services.

• Build supplier shortlists, benchmark pricing, drive savings, and ensure timely availability of goods and services.

2. Vendor Management

• Build and manage vendors across technology, infrastructure, admin, marketing, and professional services.

• Handle onboarding, due diligence, documentation, compliance checks, scorecards, and performance reviews.

• Negotiate pricing, payment terms, warranties, timelines, SLAs, renewals, and commercial clauses.

• Manage vendor risks, escalations, alternate suppliers, and supply continuity for critical requirements.

3. Governance, Contracts & Compliance

• Ensure compliance with procurement policies, approvals, controls, audits, and budgets.

• Maintain accurate records for approvals, POs, contracts, vendor documents, and audit trails.

• Work with Legal and business teams on NDAs, contracts, renewals, and procurement issues.

• Track contract validity, license expiries, warranties, support terms, and AMC obligations.

4. Spend Management, MIS & Analytics

• Prepare spend analysis, savings trackers, vendor comparisons, dashboards, ageing reports, budget reports, and MIS.

• Use advanced Excel for analysis, pivot tables, lookups, dashboards, trends, vendor evaluation, and insights.

• Monitor cycle time, savings, open POs, approvals, delivery status, vendor performance, and issue resolution.

5. Process Improvement & Stakeholder Leadership

• Improve procurement processes, templates, approvals, vendor tracking, and reporting discipline.

• Partner with internal teams to understand needs, provide commercial inputs, close negotiations, and meet timelines.

• Support ERP, procurement, contract management, or purchase-to-pay system adoption.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Commerce, Engineering, Business, Finance, or related field; MBA or procurement certification preferred.

• 10+ years in procurement, sourcing, vendor management, or supply chain, preferably in technology, cloud, data center, telecom, infrastructure, or startups.

• Experience across IT infrastructure, data center components, networking, racks, PDUs, cabling, licenses, SaaS, admin, marketing, and professional services procurement.

• Strong RFQ/RFP, evaluation, negotiation, onboarding, performance management, governance, and P2P knowledge.

• Excellent communication skills to coordinate with stakeholders, vendors, finance, legal, and leadership.

• Contract knowledge including commercial terms, NDAs, service agreements, renewals, and vendor obligations preferred

• Advanced Excel skills for analysis, vendor evaluation, spend tracking, MIS, dashboards, pivot tables, and lookups.

• Familiarity with ERP or procurement platforms.

Key Performance Indicators

• Cost savings and cost avoidance against category and project targets.

• Timely closure of RFQs, RFPs, negotiations, POs, renewals, and critical procurement requests.

• On-time delivery and vendor performance on pricing, quality, SLAs, warranty, and support.

• Accurate documentation, approvals, contracts, invoices, vendor records, and audit trails.

• Compliance with policies, approval matrix, budgets, and vendor onboarding requirements.

• Timely spend reports, savings trackers, vendor comparisons, dashboards, and MIS update

• Stakeholder satisfaction, responsiveness, transparency, and issue resolution turnaround.

Why Join Neysa?

At Neysa.ai, you will support timely, cost-effective, and compliant procurement for a growing AI infrastructure business.

Build the infrastructure that powers AI. Build it at Neysa.

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