Service Delivery Ops Associate Manager

Skill required: Sourcing - Sourcing
Designation: Service Delivery Ops Associate Manager
Qualifications:Any Graduation
Years of Experience:10 to 14 years
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What would you do? Your role includes some or all the following key responsibilities. You should review these in conjunction with career-level guidelines to clearly understand your role s expectations. ? Triage Management • Be the first point of contact for external and internal stakeholders for incoming procurement volume • Collect details relevant to the requested procurement project to assess against guidelines or policies • Determine criticality and risk to business, prioritize, and route inbound procurement requests to appropriate teams/project managers • Assess capacity/bandwidth of resources/deployed teams to provide transparent do-ability to stakeholders and effectively assign incoming projects • Analyze project requests (as received in the inflow) for correct categorization, type, procurement vertical, region, etc. • Determine project complexity through the judgement of the project from minimal details provided by the stakeholder • Act as a defense for the project manager/ ground teams to push back on un-realistic project requests • Manage pipeline of projects to ensure no stockpile of volume with teams/project managers • Timely assess and update (as desired) the management protocol that structures the incoming workflow by priority so that the most critical work is attended to first • Identify and eliminate some of the time-consuming steps seen in best practices or processes • Define triage rules (to appropriately route procurement requests automatically) and manage modifications • Own and manage the project inflow system/application for updates, modifications • Interact with key customer and internal stakeholders and work closely with them to identify areas of improvement • Offer creative solutions to support the overall sourcing program and achieve the desired results • To ensure timely project deliverables with the defined quality standards and service levels • Will be responsible for designing daily, weekly, and monthly reports associated with the triage process • Responsible for monitoring & presenting the deliverables to Client/Internal global team members
What are we looking for? ? Complexity Handles complex problems within area of responsibility. Analyzes various factors to create effective solutions. Aligns work with strategic direction from senior leadership. Engages with senior management on sensitive or strategic issues. ? Authority Has some independence in decision-making. Chooses methods and approaches for new tasks with limited guidance. ? Impact Decisions directly affect daily operations in the area of responsibility. Carries moderate risk if decisions are incorrect. ? Scope Leads small to mid-sized teams or project efforts. Responsible for deliverables within Accenture or at client sites. ? Procurement Specific Skill Should have experience in the source-to-contract process with the foundational knowledge of: • Various sourcing project types (RFI, RFP, RFQ, Auction, Spot Buy, Incumbent Negotiation, Renewals, Term-Extensions, etc.), • Procurement categories (directs, indirect, and sub-categories), • Contract types (MSA, SOW, SSA, Standalone Agreement, Short-Form Agreement, Purchase Order, etc.), • Global and regional regulations ? Required • Graduation or post-graduation, CPSM / CPM (desired) • 6+ years of Sourcing and contracting experience, preferably spread across categories and regions
Roles and Responsibilities: •In this role you are required to do analysis and solving of moderately complex problems • Typically creates new solutions, leveraging and, where needed, adapting existing methods and procedures • The person requires understanding of the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to team goals • Primary upward interaction is with direct supervisor or team leads • Generally interacts with peers and/or management levels at a client and/or within Accenture • The person should require minimal guidance when determining methods and procedures on new assignments • Decisions often impact the team in which they reside and occasionally impact other teams • Individual would manage medium-small sized teams and/or work efforts (if in an individual contributor role) at a client or within Accenture • Please note that this role may require you to work in rotational shifts