Contract Associate Manager - Procurement

Skill required:Procurement management - Contract management
Designation:Contract Associate Manager
Qualifications:Any Graduation/Bachelor of Laws
Years of Experience:10 to 14 years
What would you do?
You will be aligned with our Procurement vertical and help us in the process of finding and agreeing to terms, and acquiring goods, services, or works from an external source, often via a tendering or competitive bidding process. Procurement is used to ensure the buyer receives goods, services, or works at the best possible price when aspects such as quality, quantity, time, and location are compared. You will be working as a part of Procurement management team which uses a systematic approach for buying all the goods and services needed for a company to stay sustainable. They are involved in the identification of need, finding and qualifying the suppliers, requesting proposals, negotiating with suppliers, contracting, delivery and analyzing results. You will be responsible for Contract Compliance & Execution which includes negotiating the terms and conditions in contracts & ensuring compliance with the terms and conditions, documenting and agreeing on any changes or amendments that may arise during its implementation or execution. It can be summarized as the process of systematically and efficiently managing contract creation, execution, and analysis for the purpose of maximizing financial and operational performance and minimizing risk. This would cover various aspects of contracts like governance, reporting, incident management, change management. You will help in implementing knowledge management which focuses on strategizing and creating structured, accessible, reusable, and relevant content for Industry/Functional practitioners.
What are we looking for?

Negotiation skills

Strong analytical skills

Ability to handle disputes

Ability to work well in a team

Problem-solving skills Roles and Responsibilities:

In this role you are required to do analysis and solving of moderately complex problems

Typically creates new solutions, leveraging and, where needed, adapting existing methods and procedures

The person requires understanding of the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to team goals

Primary upward interaction is with direct supervisor or team leads

Generally interacts with peers and/or management levels at a client and/or within Accenture

The person should require minimal guidance when determining methods and procedures on new assignments

Decisions often impact the team in which they reside and occasionally impact other teams

Individual would manage medium-small sized teams and/or work efforts (if in an individual contributor role) at a client or within Accenture

Please note that this role may require you to work in rotational shifts