Job Title:  T&T-SCNO | Deputy Manager | Procurement Spend & Taxonomy Mapping | Bangalore

T&T-SCNO | Deputy Manager | Procurement Spend & Taxonomy Mapping | Bangalore

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Your work profile

• Classify procurement transactions, purchase orders, invoices, contracts, and supplier spend using established procurement taxonomies such as UNSPSC and internal category frameworks.
• Map uncategorized and incorrectly classified spend to the appropriate category, sub-category, and commodity level.
• Maintain taxonomy hierarchies to ensure consistent reporting across business units, geographies, and functions.
• Develop and refine classification logic, business rules, and mapping methodologies.
• Ensure taxonomy structures align with category management and strategic sourcing objectives.
• Support continuous improvement of spend classification accuracy and category coverage.

• Extract, consolidate, and analyze spend data from ERP, Source-to-Pay (S2P), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), contract management, and supplier management systems.
• Perform detailed spend analytics to identify trends, spend concentrations, sourcing opportunities, and compliance gaps.
• Conduct ad-hoc analysis to support category strategies and procurement decision-making.
• Prepare spend reports and executive summaries for procurement leadership and business stakeholders.
• Generate actionable insights to support cost optimization and value creation initiatives.
• Review and standardize supplier names, commodity descriptions, and transaction records.
• Identify and eliminate duplicate supplier records and inconsistent master data.
• Establish parent-child supplier hierarchies for accurate supplier reporting.
• Validate procurement data completeness and accuracy.
• Enrich spend datasets with supplier, category, and market intelligence.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise data governance standards.
• Analyze spend patterns to identify opportunities for cost reduction and supplier consolidation.
• Support strategic sourcing initiatives through data-driven recommendations.
• Conduct Pareto analysis, spend segmentation, and category opportunity assessments.
• Identify maverick spending and contract leakage opportunities.
• Assist category managers in prioritizing sourcing projects based on spend impact and savings potential.
• Develop recommendations that contribute to procurement transformation objectives.
• Establish and maintain procurement taxonomy governance processes and documentation.
• Develop standardized mapping rules and classification guidelines.
• Manage updates to category structures and taxonomy hierarchies.
• Ensure consistent application of classification standards across all datasets.
• Support audit requirements and compliance reviews related to procurement data management.
• Track classification accuracy and governance performance metrics.

• Develop and maintain procurement dashboards, scorecards, and analytical reports.

• Create reporting solutions using tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Excel, or equivalent analytics platforms.
• Monitor key procurement metrics including spend under management, savings, supplier concentration, and compliance.
• Deliver periodic and ad-hoc reports to procurement leadership.
• Ensure reporting accuracy, consistency, and timeliness.
• Drive improvements in procurement analytics and visualization capabilities.
• Partner with sourcing teams, category managers, suppliers, finance teams, and business stakeholders to understand reporting requirements.
• Provide analytical support during sourcing events, supplier negotiations, and category planning activities.
• Facilitate discussions to validate spend classifications and category structures.
• Work closely with procurement technology and master data teams to improve data quality.
• Communicate insights and recommendations to senior management and business leaders.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for procurement spend analytics and taxonomy management.
• Conduct periodic audits of spend classifications, supplier records, and procurement data.
• Monitor and report key data quality metrics and performance indicators.
• Investigate and resolve root causes of data discrepancies and mapping issues.
• Implement best practices that improve spend visibility and reporting accuracy.
• Identify automation opportunities to reduce manual classification efforts.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across procurement analytics processes.

• Monitor classification accuracy and manage exception handling processes.

• Evaluate emerging technologies that improve procurement analytics capabilities.
• Collaborate with digital transformation teams to enhance automation within spend management processes.
• Establish governance controls for data classification and reporting processes.Provide a comprehensive and reliable view of organizational spend by ensuring all procurement transactions are accurately classified and mapped to the appropriate category taxonomy.

• Drive data quality initiatives through cleansing, standardization, validation, and enrichment of supplier, commodity, and transaction data to enable informed procurement decisions.
• Support category managers and sourcing teams with accurate spend segmentation, category insights, and analytical reporting to strengthen category strategies.
• Identify consolidation, cost optimization, supplier rationalization, and savings opportunities through robust spend analysis and taxonomy-based reporting.
• Establish and sustain category taxonomy standards, classification rules, and governance frameworks to ensure consistency across business units and regions.
• Achieve and maintain industry-leading spend classification accuracy through continuous refinement of mapping methodologies, automated rules, and quality assurance processes.
• Deliver meaningful analytics, dashboards, scorecards, and executive reports that provide actionable insights into procurement performance and spend trends.
• Improve policy compliance by identifying maverick spend, contract leakage, supplier risks, and categorization gaps through data-driven analysis.
• Leverage advanced analytics, automation, AI, and machine learning capabilities to improve spend classification efficiency, reporting accuracy, and overall procurement effectiveness.
• Provide procurement, finance, and business leaders with accurate, timely, and actionable spend intelligence to support strategic business decisions.
• Continuously evaluate procurement data processes, taxonomy structures, and reporting methodologies to improve efficiency, scalability, and business value.

• High spend classification accuracy.
• Achieving comprehensive taxonomy coverage across addressable spend.
• Delivering timely and actionable procurement insights.
• Improving data quality, governance, and reporting consistency.
• Identifying cost-saving and sourcing opportunities.
• Reducing maverick spend and data inconsistencies.
• Driving automation and AI-enabled classification efficiencies.
• Earning strong stakeholder confidence as a trusted procurement analytics partner.
• Experience in procurement analytics, spend classification, category management, procurement transformation, and AI-enabled spend management solutions.

• • CLM / ERP systems: SAP, Ariba, Coupa, Icertis etc.
  • Analytics tools: Excel, Power BI, Tableau
  • Data handling: Large dataset processing, data transformation tools
  • Exposure to workflow automation tools and digital reporting

• Hands-on experience with ERP systems (SAP/Ariba/Coupa preferred)
• Ability to translate data into actionable insights
• Experience working across global stakeholders and multiple BUs
• Strong communication and influencing skills
• GCC/Procurement CoE empowering Business Units experience

Key skills required

• • Education : Any Graduation
    • Experience- 6 -10 years of relevant experience in procurement or sourcing analytics    or spend analysis.
  • Strong exposure to global procurement environments (MedTech, Pharma, FMCG/CPG, Medical Devices / Vision Care industries preferred).
  • Knowledge of SAP, Ariba, Coupa or Oracle. 
  • Strong Excel, Power BI and SQL skills. 
  • Experience in multi-BU/global operating models and CoE structures
  • Advanced knowledge /subject matter expertise of Procurement processes and applications
  • Proven stakeholder management and coordination skills
  • Experience working across global stakeholders, multiple BUs, and cross-functional teams (Legal, Finance, Procurement)
  • Automation: Basic familiarity with automation / AI-enabled contract analysis tools
  • Exposure to workflow automation tools and digital reporting
  • Bachelor’s degree (B. Com / BBA / BMS or equivalent)
  • MBA / master’s degree (preferred)
  • Certification in Procurement/Sourcing (CIPS, CPSM – good to have)