Senior Manager Procurement and Contracting

Huron is redefining what a global consulting organization can be. Advancing new ideas every day to build even stronger clients, individuals and communities. We’re helping our clients find new ways to drive growth, enhance business performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. And, we’re developing strategies and implementing solutions that enable the transformative change they need to own their future.

As a member of the Huron corporate team, you’ll help to evolve our business model to stay ahead of market forces, industry trends and client needs. Our accounting, finance, human resources, IT, legal, marketing and facilities management professionals work collaboratively to support Huron’s collective strategies and enable real transformation to produce sustainable business results.

Join our team and create your future.

This position will be working within Huron’s Procure to Pay Team and part of our Global Finance team and will work projects and requests globally as well as for the local India team. This position will be responsible for tasks and projects related to purchase requests, renewals, and supplier spend analysis across all areas of the business. This position will also oversee Procurement functions under the Global Finance team. Candidate must have excellent English communication and writing skills, US based procurement experience, excellent customer service skills, strong analytical skills and experience, and a strong sense of inclusion and teamwork. The position will report to the Shared Services Director in India, with accountability as well to the Procure to Pay Senior Director, Manager of Procurement. This role will be a key part a dynamic Procure to Pay team.

The role requires close collaboration with colleagues in the US and demands flexibility to work during evening IST hours to align with US working hours. Although the company permits hybrid work, employees can set their own working hours, ensuring a minimum of four hours overlap with US hours.

Responsibilities:

• Coaches and oversees Procurement team resources supporting global and India procurement. Ensures team follows procurement playbook, Huron policies, standards, and processes with negotiations, driving both cost savings and risk mitigation.
• Manages and oversees all India procurement related functions and process, ensures alignment with global process, legal, risk, and compliance requirements.
• Works directly and manages team to ensure all assigned procurement requests are completed timely and follow expected process.
• Supports global procurement team, partnering with US team to manage requests assigned. Expectation is team will handle 50-75% of global requests.
• Works with vendors on quotes, proposals, and negotiating commercial and contract terms. Coordinates with business owners, contracting, and other teams as needed before execution of agreements and strategies.
• Negotiates with Vendors and ensures purchases comply with Huron’s requirements.
• Reviews purchase requisitions from business. Negotiates with vendor and works requests through to approval and contracting and issue of purchase order.
• Manages completion of requests and projects across multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Helps maintain contract repository and reporting, both manual and through Huron’s contract management tools. (Excel, DocuSign CLM, Workday, etc.)
• Helps ensure renewals and requests are completed on time, and with proper lead time.
• Works with vendor and business to achieve the best value to Huron. Helps business prepare for renewals or purchases and evaluate vendor options. Assists with formal RFP process as needed.
• Creates and maintains reporting and tracking for team performance, adherence to SLAs, and other operational metrics.
• Partners and collaborates with US managers as well as Supplier Contracting team to identify improvements and pain points, aligns and partners to identify solutions and corrections. Builds positive relationships and delivers results to ensure business needs are being met along with Huron expectations and standards.
• Assists with overall Vendor Management escalations, tracking, reporting, and review.
• Creates and maintains spend analysis reporting as assigned, including but not limited to overall spend, savings opportunities and risks, productivity team metrics and individual performance metrics,
• Works with P2P Director and business to identify cost savings opportunities. Leads projects and initiatives to implement identified strategies
• Works with Finance and Accounts Payable teams to resolve errors, improve process, and ensure accuracy and compliance across all functions.
• Partners with other team leaders to propose improvements to processes, driving efficiency and cost savings.
• Supports and performs testing for P2P system processes, bug fixes, new features, releases, etc.
• Reviews, investigates, and resolves invoice and PO inquiries, matching to contract terms and scope.
• Maintains proper vendor documentation and tracking through process for tracking and compliance, creates/runs reports as requested.
• Works on projects as assigned, such as vendor tracking, analysis, research, or other vendor management initiatives (diversity tracking, compliance reports, spend reports, etc.)
• Creates pivot tables, reports, and analysis from raw data dumps and varied data sources.
• Follows company request and approval processes, ensures purchases receive necessary approvals before completion.

Requirements / Skills

• Proven experience managing teams, coaching, and implementing team processes.
• Expert in Procurement with core experience is services based requests such as professional services, contingent labor, or technology.
• Proven experience supporting global procurement functions.
• Strong analytical skills, ability to build reports, analysis, and metrics
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to relate comfortably at all levels among our internal clients and our suppliers. Both in India and the US.
• Graduate degree required.
• Ability to work quickly and independently, with minimal supervision
• 13-18 years of overall experience in Procurement
• 5+ years of team handling experience
• Experience with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, O365, etc.) 
• Ability to create reports from detailed data. Proficient in Excel.
• Strong written and verbal skills, including negotiation and influencing
• Strong ability to develop effective relationships with both business teams, as well as vendors.
• Excellent attention to detail: reconciling contracts, invoices, and budgets
• Ability to work flexible hours as needed, supporting US and India based team members.

Position Level

Senior Manager

Country

India