Leads strategic sourcing and procurement activities, including spend analysis, category strategy, competitive bidding, supplier negotiations, contracting support, compliance, and stakeholder management. Manages sourcing projects, RFP documentation, audit trails, buying channels, supplier engagements, and process improvement initiatives. The role requires client-facing communication, analytical problem-solving, cross-functional coordination, team support, and work from the Mumbai office in US shift hours.
At Jabil (NYSE: JBL), we are proud to be a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions. With 60 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.
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ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Should be proficient in Strategic Sourcing: Analyzing spend data, creating internal & external category profiles, Market intelligence reports, Opportunity assessments, devising category strategies, identifying sourcing levers for respective categories, analyzing costing for a product or service, conduct structured supplier negotiations, understand the nuances of contracting and executing the same with suppliers in co-ordination with legal teams, managing statutory compliances and sustainability requirements etc.
- Taking ownership of the activities end to end. Prior experience in a client facing role is necessary, should have an eye to detail to be able to work towards increasing efficiency
- Understand the requirements of internal stakeholders & external (Agencies) stakeholders and suggest an appropriate approach and time-based work-plan to achieve the objectives/deliverables.
- Strong analytical skills and problem-solving skills, attention to detail and Analytical mindset with the ability to gather and analyze data, identify trends, and generate actionable insights for process improvement
- Day to day management of procurement activities, managing workloads and priorities, team management and escalating/reporting to leadership as necessary.
- Managing the collection of requests from stakeholders, communicating and documenting the overall progress
- Assist the building of processes to support strategic sourcing initiatives, spot buy purchases and tactical sourcing.
- Manage assigned engagements with suppliers to support wider Category teams
- Analyze buying patterns, volumes to determine appropriate buying channel e.g., catalogue, Pcard, PO purchase, etc.
- Providing specialist administrative support from beginning to end of a tendering project/RFP ensuring the integrity of he process. Experience working on reputed S2C platforms like Coupa, Scan Market, Ariba, Jaggaer, etc
- Keeping an audit trail for each project and ensuring required documentation is in place.
- Providing a professional, efficient and effective response to stakeholder's queries
- It will be work from Andheri, Mumbai Office
- Candidate should be willing to work in any shift
- Job activities will include supporting internal Stakeholders as well as external clients
SKILLS, MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS, KNOWLEDGE
- Master’s degree in business administration
- Minimum [3+ years] of relevant experience in sourcing analytics with a strong foundation in strategic sourcing
- Demonstrated ability to run competitive bidding processes (RFIs/RFPs/RFQs), manage negotiations, and secure favorable terms
- Experience in categories like MRO, IT, Marketing, Logistics is favorable
- Ability to read and interpret technical specifications and project plans, work closely with stakeholder team
- Other programming experience: Power BI an advantage
- Demonstrate expertise in enhancing and automating sourcing processes
- Ability to motivate, organize and develop team members
- Is highly credible, an effective communicator (written and verbal) and is able to influence senior external vendors and senior internal clients
- Self-starter who can work with minimal supervision and manage a large volume of projects
- Can contribute effectively to and/or co-ordinate cross-functional teams
- Proficiency in using Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) and other relevant software applications like SAP
Willingness to work in US shift time.
Mandatory work from Mumbai office while not onsite at client location.
BE AWARE OF FRAUD: When applying for a job at Jabil you will be contacted via correspondence through our official job portal with a jabil.com e-mail address; direct phone call from a member of the Jabil team; or direct e-mail with a jabil.com e-mail address. Jabil does not request payments for interviews or at any other point during the hiring process. Jabil will not ask for your personal identifying information such as a social security number, birth certificate, financial institution, driver’s license number or passport information over the phone or via e-mail. If you believe you are a victim of identity theft, contact your local police department. Any scam job listings should be reported to whatever website it was posted in.
Jabil, including its subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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