Team Lead - Procurement - Consulting Firm (3-8 yrs)

About you:

- Candidate should be a graduate/post-graduate with strong academic records and relevant experience in procurement, spend analysis, category management, cost transformation or performance improvement roles

- Procurement function, process, sourcing and Category specific experience is a Plus

- Work experience range in case highest qualification is undergraduate studies - 5-8 years of relevant experience in industry or consulting firms

- Work experience range in case highest qualification is postgraduate studies - 3-6 years of relevant experience in industry or consulting firms

- Excellent analytical skills, communication skills (ability to deliver clear and professional presentations to senior stakeholders), team management and project management skills

- Demonstrated ability to work with MS Excel and PowerPoint

- Knowledge of visualization and tools such as Alteryx, Tableau, PowerBI (Python is a plus)

- Ability to deal with ambiguity, handle multiple tasks and dynamic case expectations

- Effective communication skills and ability and deliver clear and professional presentations to senior stakeholders (managers, partners, and clients)

What you'll do:

- Project Leader leads a team of 3-4 team members of Analysts and Associates on problem solving, work-planning, analytics, research, and overall content to produce client ready materials and generate business insights and implications. You will also help Co. partners in developing intellectual property (IP), go-to-market materials, pitch documents and publications. The position reports into a Manager/Sr. Manager

- Own end to end case delivery of Performance Improvement projects related to Procurement. This includes the following:

- Assist case teams across company's ecosystem to analyze the problem and deploy the most appropriate tool/solution

- Understand client's data using P&L, ERP Systems, budgeting systems, supplier databases and purchase order systems to design the solution

- Deliver procurement solutions across multiple fronts including spend analytics, savings lever design, supplier analysis, strategic sourcing, savings initiative design, among others

- Guide the team to create dashboards-based deliverables using Alteryx, Tableau, PowerBI or similar analytical tools

- Review and provide guidance to the team on the ongoing cases; monitor and balance workloads

- Utilize appropriate research sources to identify and employ relevant data-driven insights for effective decision-making

- Ensure timely and high-quality output/analysis produced by the junior team members; conduct reality checks on the answers before communicating to the client