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Consultant - Global Procurement Category Manager (Marketing)

  • Full Time
  • Hybrid - Delhi
  • 7 months
  • Project posted on: 1/07/2026
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Consultant - Global Procurement Category Manager (Marketing)

  • Supply Chain Management
  • Procurement and vendor management
  • Procurement Spend Analysis
  • Direct Procurement

Hybrid - Delhi

Full Time

7 months

 1/07/2026

Assignment Details

Our client, a Leading Global Specialist in Energy Management and Automation, is looking for a Procurement Category Manager –Marketing in India.


The scope is to manage the sub-category of data purchase/market intelligence &
translations Worldwide. You must deliver on strategic projects to effectively deliver high performance, efficiencies, and customer satisfaction for stakeholders in support of their business needs.
 

What will you do?
You will report to the Global Category Leader in the Global Procurement Marketing
team. You will be part of a global procurement community (team members in North
America, Europe, and Asia) and interact with stakeholders/suppliers worldwide.


Strategic Sourcing:

 

  • Anticipate, collect, understand, and help to formalize the business
    requirements with various stakeholders in all BU organizations for your
    identified families.
  • Assess the vendors market to determine the best options and sources of
    supply for Schneider
  • Lead RFPs, negotiation, supplier selection in close collaboration with
    stakeholders to meet their business needs
  • Lead contract negotiation, approval, and signature for large-scale, enterprise-
    wide global agreements in alignment with Group legal and compliance
    requirements and policies
  • Demonstrates project management expertise to carry strategic sourcing
    projects from strategic planning through implementation.
  • Connect with local buyers in region and animate the network related to the
    data purchase and translations sub-categories

 

Sub- Category management and Supplier relationship management:

 

  • Analyze and optimize a portfolio of vendors
  • Be accountable for delivering productivity/savings in his / her scope, based on
    strong collaboration with stakeholders (functional management)
  • Proactively manage his/her supplier panel, evaluate performance, risk, and
    innovation in alignment with the category strategy
  • Prepare and lead Business Reviews with strategic suppliers
    Drive adoption to a global pool of recommended vendors established
    internationally for marketing.
  • Support and drive change within all parties involved to ensure most business
    needs are met within the Program

 

Stakeholders’ management:

  • Ensure stakeholder's management & satisfaction
  • Increase the value of the function on the identified scope

PLEASE NOTE: Flexibility to work across global time zones required, including overlap with European (12:30 PM–4:30 PM IST) and US (6:30 PM–9:30 PM IST) morning business hours.

Skills Required

  • >5 years of relevant experience in sourcing services in a global environment
  • Marketing knowledge
  • Excellent sourcing & negotiation skills (contractual and commercial
    negotiation, supplier management, should-cost analysis, sourcing methods &
    tools)
  • Good understanding and experience in legal aspects associated with
    Professional services (Intellectual property, Personal data, cybersecurity, DPA
    etc.)
  • Ability to influence & convince, Networking skills
  • Subject matter expertise on Professional services market trends
  • Communication& collaboration
  • Result-oriented, dynamic, self-driven, team player
  • Ability to use e-sourcing and data analytics tools 
  • Data-driven, leveraging data analytics, data visualization, and data
    presentation for strategic category/spend portfolio and supplier panel analysis.
  • Strategic sourcing experience

PLEASE NOTE: Flexibility to work across global time zones required, including overlap with European (12:30 PM–4:30 PM IST) and US (6:30 PM–9:30 PM IST) morning business hours.

About the Client

A leading global specialist in energy management and automation

Industry

Electronic Equipment & Accessories, Industrial Machinery & Equipment

Experience Required:

7+ years

Additional Skills:

  • Direct Procurement
  • Global Sourcing
  • Strategic Sourcing
  • Vendor management
  • Procurement Analysis
  • Indirect Procurement
  • Sourcing
  • Marketing Procurement
  • Global Procurement

No of open positions:

1

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