Managing Consultant
Current• Client Management and Communication: Supporting the CPO, Head of Procurement Excellence and Category Managers (managing direct and indirect categories of over GBP 3 billion spend) through continuous category management support – reporting analytics, spend visibility, market intelligence, price forecasting and process implementation• Project Management: Engaging with client requestors to understand the business need and propose solutions to them through focused primary and secondary… Show more • Client Management and Communication: Supporting the CPO, Head of Procurement Excellence and Category Managers (managing direct and indirect categories of over GBP 3 billion spend) through continuous category management support – reporting analytics, spend visibility, market intelligence, price forecasting and process implementation• Project Management: Engaging with client requestors to understand the business need and propose solutions to them through focused primary and secondary research; managing proposals and end-to-end execution of projects, handling client interactions, and devising approach and analysis plans• Digital Transformation: Delivering custom digital solutions by conceptualising digital products using machine learning, text analytics and other digital tools; facilitating the business on its digital transformation journey by moving to digital platforms• Project Scoping and Conceptualisation: Assessing client’s business needs and scoping problem statements into customised actionable research with category teams – by participating and contributing in project-specific discussions• Pipeline Management and Delivery: Delivering category intelligence projects across procurement categories• Team Management: Managing ~10 FTEs across multiple category teams in India, Romania and the UK; supervising project teams (Project Managers, Senior Analysts and Analysts) and overseeing project delivery Show less