Sourcing & Procurement - Team Leader / SME

TCS Hiring for Sourcing & Procurement - Team Leader / SME Role: Team Leader / SME Location: Bangalore Experience: 6 - 10 years Education: • Minimum 15 years of regular, full-time education (10 + 2 + 3) Skills: • Excellent Understanding of Sourcing / Procurement • Experience of working as a Team Leader of Sourcing / Procurement process • Experience of managing domestic and international suppliers/customers. • Knowledge of MS Office • Exposure to ERP (Oracle, Coupa & SAP) • Excellent Communication Skills (Spoken & Written) • Collaboration and Influencing • Team Leadership • Analytical skills • Result orientation Responsibilities: • Manages teams of 10-15 members, including recruitment, training, and attrition of the team members. • Initiate process controls, quality plans and risk mitigation initiatives • Manage processes and the metrics on a day-to-day basis. • Ensure delivery and meet SLAs. • Liaises with client organization for any delivery requirement. • Resolve queries coming from both requesters and suppliers. • Contract & Catalog creation, administration, and compliance monitoring. • Support category teams with administrative tasks such as spend consolidations (rework some data), review purchase orders, etc. • Identify and resolve exceptions. • Liaises with client organization for any delivery requirement. • Process improvement. • Ensures robust governance, controls & compliance. • Initiates process controls, quality plans and risk mitigation programs • Identify potential risk and work out mitigation plan.