Senior Procurement Analyst

Senior Analyst – Procurement & Sourcing

Reports To:

Hiring Manager

Department:
Professional Services and Asset & Wealth Management

Location:

Gurugram

Job Summary

We are seeking a detail-oriented Analyst to join our Procurement Intelligence team, focusing on supplier outreach, spend analysis, and strategic sourcing research. The role requires 3-5 years of experience in primary research, supplier intelligence, and procurement analytics. The ideal candidate should possess strong communication skills, data interpretation abilities, and a good understanding of compliance standards.

This position combines cold calling, supplier verification, spend data categorization, and support for procurement transformation initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

1. Supplier Intelligence:

- Support long listing and shortlisting of suppliers using desk research and outreach.
- Design supplier discovery strategy for assigned categories (search logic, filters, must-have criteria).
- Conduct supplier verification by assessing product fit, technical capabilities, volume capacity, and export readiness.
- Shortlist Supplier with evidence-backed rationale and structured capability mapping.

2. Category Intelligence & Market Insights:

- Create high-quality category intelligence deliverables: supplier landscape, cost drivers, pricing mechanisms, demand-supply shifts, and risks/opportunities.
- Produce insight-led narratives (what it means for sourcing strategy, levers, and trade-offs).

3. Primary Research Leadership:

- Plan and execute primary research approach: call guides, questionnaires, outreach sequencing, and response quality controls.
- Ensure structured documentation, triangulation, and defensibility of insights.
- Comply with internal policies, avoiding proprietary data collection and activities like mystery shopping.

4. Survey Requests & Coordination:

- Support client requests involving supplier surveys, especially for sourcing or market insights.
- Ensure sanitized questionnaires are used and respondent numbers stay within internal thresholds unless approvals are obtained.
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders for survey approvals, timelines, and compliance protocols.
- Analyze survey responses and summarize insights for category strategy development or supplier benchmarking.

5. RFX Support: RFIs / RFQs / RFPs / Re-bids:

- Own key components of RFX execution: requirement templates, supplier communication, response consolidation, clarification loops, and evaluation trackers.
- Support supplier selection through structured comparisons, scoring models, and decision logs (as per client criteria).

6. Supplier Benchmarking & Scorecards:

- Build and maintain supplier scorecards including capability, commercial constructions, quality, ESG/compliance indicators, delivery performance, and risk factors.
- Drive benchmarking across suppliers and create management-ready summary views (pros/cons, differentiators, recommendation logic).

7. Spend Intelligence & Data Management:

- Perform Supplier normalization/parenting and taxonomy creation aligned with standards like UNSPSC, SIC, or NAICS.
• Categorize direct, indirect, and MRO spend data.
- Translate analysis into actionable outputs for sourcing decisions (concentration risk, supplier fragmentation, savings opportunity, etc.).
- Use tools like Power BI, Tableau, and Alteryx for visualization and insights will be a plus.

Required Qualifications

- 2-3 years of experience in supplier outreach, procurement research, surveys and spend analytics.
- Familiarity with sourcing and procurement tools, supplier benchmarking, and taxonomy frameworks.
- Strong communication skills; able to draft clear, compliant emails and conduct professional calls.
- Proficiency in Excel and visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau);
Alteryx knowledge is a plus.
- Ability to manage multiple projects, prioritize tasks, and maintain high accuracy under tight deadlines.

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