- Assist with business development activities. - Work closely with senior management and clients to create customized procurement and supply chain solutions. - Participate on the planning, preparation and recommendation processes for action plans and help clients to implement them. - Analyze client spend data and create deliverables for projects. - Understand and translate client needs to provide flawless services. - Work with senior management to develop selling tools for key clients. - Utilize sourcing levers and hypothesis-driven approach to size and validate opportunities. - Drive implementations to realize savings across supply chain - Lead benchmarking exercise to ensure pricing competitiveness and conduct category research to drive innovation or service satisfactions - Perform ad-hoc analysis based on project needs, present findings and drive progress

As a Senior Associate, you will be involved in every phase of a consulting engagement, from pre-proposal research through final implementation. Almost immediately, you will join a project team, working at a client location, sharing your ideas, solving problems and providing solutions in the areas of purchasing, supply chain management, business process management, and technology. Candidates will build their project management and client management skills, and further develop their communication and presentation abilities. - Gathering and analysing data - Helping to generate proposals and lead certain client and analyst teams - Recommending actions and help clients implement them - Having opportunities to create intellectual capital and recruit new consultants - Working closely with senior management and clients to create customised purchasing proposals - Analysing client spend data and creating deliverables for the project - Understanding client needs to provide flawless service - Assisting with business development activities - Working with senior management to develop selling tools for key clients - Recommending actions and help clients implement them.

As a Sourcing Manager in the Knowledge Services team you will be responsible for executing complex and strategic sourcing projects of categories/sub-categories to include: translating business requirements into clear statements of Work, solicits bids, leads auctions. Also, you will be responsible for: - Provide end to end sourcing strategy and execution on medium to high complexity or strategic projects of categories/sub-categories to include: translating business requirements into clear statements of Work, solicits bids, leads auctions. - Partnering with difficult or high expectation stakeholders - Category/Project Strategy and Approach - Work and output management of the support team - Be a senior resource for junior level guidance - Manage and optimize functional sourcing support activities while ensuring adherence to clients corporate standards. Provide necessary information input to enablement group - Engage with internal & external business partners to ensure that decisions are based on the broad scope of the organization and achieve optimum daily execution - Manage project allocation, support team members during kick off meeting and share best practices - Monitor performance satisfaction, ensuring all SLAs accountable for are met and drive continuous improvement initiatives

- Manage an end to end procurement process by finding suitable suppliers, executing requests for proposals and preparing price analysis. - Monitor and research trends in the industry as well as “Best Practices” and pursue and adopt these as appropriate for assigned commodity areas. - Work effectively with peers and others to operate a proactive supplies and consumables environment for the business. - Conduct RFx sourcing and benchmarking for the commodities and services assigned and create analysis to support recommendations for periodic changes in supply. - Understand standard purchasing practices and techniques, independently work with suppliers and receiving locations to quickly reconcile discrepancies with purchase orders, requisitions, supplier’s deliveries and invoices. - Analyze quotations, manages day to day supplier interfaces including PO’s/discrepancies/deliveries, etc. - Participate as member of Sourcing Team to ensure compliance with all procurement processes. - Supplier and basic market research. - Conduct and managing supplier evaluations for our clients. - Support clients with day to day ad-hoc sourcing requests, various cost, change management & supplier performance management. - Analyze spend data. - Collect data, compiling & analyzing the results to present a consistent analysis to clients.

- Assist with business development activities. - Work closely with senior management and clients to create customized procurement and supply chain solutions. - Participate on the planning, preparation and recommendation processes for action plans and help clients to implement them. - Analyze client spend data and create deliverables for projects. - Understand and translate client needs to provide flawless services. - Work with senior management to develop selling tools for key clients. - Work with Corporate Communications to increase awareness of our services.  

As a Process Lead, you will be an integral part of the Global Delivery Team. This position is based in our San José location. In this role, your duties will include but will not be limited to: - Execute standarized processes and strategies. - Demostrate ability to apply and translate business expertise to breakthrough thinking that significaly impacts the clients long-term strategic positon; thought leaders. - Manage and optimize functional processes and activities while ensuring adhrerence to client's corporate standards. - Engage with internal & external business partners to ensure that decisions are based on the broad scope of the organizationand achieve optimum daily execution. - Monitor processes performance, metrics and indicators and ensure that expectations are met. - Perform other special projects as assigned.

- Purchasing: - Review purchase requisitions and create POs in line with the standard operating procedures. - Process purchase orders not transacted electronically. - Determine if requested items are available in catalogue. - Update the Vendor Master Records/Updates/New Vendor Setup in system. - Establish and follow up ship dates with suppliers. - Generate PO from approved requisition. - Route high-value items not on contract to Sr. Buyer for resolution. - Customer Support: - Review inbound requests (phone/email) and provide resolution in line with the standard operating procedures. - Determine if request can be resolved within the team or needs external teams support. - Triage ticket within the ticket system and update the system per SOP. - Follow with the required stakeholders / team members for open requests. - Route high-complexity tickets to Sr. customer support team members for resolution.

At GEP, we are looking to continue our growth trajectory by expanding our talented managed services team. As a Sourcing Lead, you will partner with our client and internal teams and manage the planning and execution of strategic sourcing initiatives using a multi-step sourcing process. Also, you will be responsible for: - Providing end to end sourcing execution support on low to medium complexity projects confidently - Support high complexity projects, but may need moderate direction from Manager level team members - Project management of S2C activities based on the agreed Sourcing Strategy - Engage with internal and external cross functional teams 

- Purchasing: - Review purchase requisitions and create POs in line with the standard operating procedures. - Process purchase orders not transacted electronically. - Determine if requested items are available in catalogue. - Update the Vendor Master Records/Updates/New Vendor Setup in system. - Establish and follow up ship dates with suppliers. - Generate PO from approved requisition. - Route high-value items not on contract to Sr. Buyer for resolution. - Customer Support: - Review inbound requests (phone/email) and provide resolution in line with the standard operating procedures. - Determine if request can be resolved within the team or needs external teams support. - Triage ticket within the ticket system and update the system per SOP. - Follow with the required stakeholders / team members for open requests. - Route high-complexity tickets to Sr. customer support team members for resolution.

- Review purchase requisitions and identify sources of supply. - Select contract / supplier to fill requisitions in accordance with approved Purchasing strategies. - Determine if requested items are available in catalogue and implement predefined action. - Process purchase orders not transacted electronically. - Identify and resolve PO/PR processing issues. - Work with buyers / client group and suppliers to resolve delivery issues and process claims. - Research and resolve invoice discrepancies & account disbursements. - Maintain the Vendor Master Records/Updates/New Vendor Setup. - Work with supplier and end user to resolve invoice, damaged / returned goods, and ship date issues. - Maintain professional interactions with outside suppliers as well as a strong partnership with client users. - Establish and follow up on shipping dates with suppliers, resolve issues with supplier/requestor for shipping dates. - Advise customer of modifications from original requests. - Obtain price information from approved supplier. - Generate PO from approved requisition. - Route high-value items not on contract to Sr. Buyer for resolution. - Execute online events on client' system (RFP, auctions, among others) and provide trainings when required. - Generate reports for online events' results. 

- Identify and resolve PO/PR processing issues - Select contract / supplier to fill requisitions in accordance with approved Purchasing strategies - Process purchase orders not transacted electronically - Provide reports, information, analysis etc. as required, in a timely and professional manner - Resolve queries and issues faced by the stakeholders and junior team members in P2P process - Identify and communicate supplier diversity opportunities - Determine if requested items are available in catalogue and implement predefined action - Work with buyers / client group and suppliers to resolve delivery issues and process claims - Research and resolve invoice discrepancies & account disbursements - Maintain the Vendor Master Records/Updates/New Vendor Setup - Work with supplier and end user to resolve invoice, damaged / returned goods, and ship date issues - Maintain professional interactions with outside suppliers as well as a strong partnership with client users - Establish and follow up on shipping dates with suppliers, resolve issues with supplier/requestor for shipping dates - Advise customer of modifications from original requests - Obtain price information from approved supplier - Generate PO from approved requisition - Route high-value items not on contract to Sr. Buyer for resolution

The Supplier Relationship Lead is responsible for managing key, high value supplier relationships worldwide, including goods and services that support the company and its customers. Primary objective is to ensure product availability, reduce the cost of supply, meet demand requirements, business and quality specifications, and revenue goals.    In this role, duties will include but are not limited to: - Lead the analysis of a specific commodity data and industry trends or leads an individual supply chain sub- category; reports results to managers.  - Meet with Stakeholder managers to understand business priorities, comprehends the industry, the Marketplace and translate them into Long Term procurement plans working closely with client and supplier business stakeholders - Resolve supplier allocations when in shortages or quota management as first point of escalation by interacting with suppliers, internal and client cross-functional teams - Assess the supply base of category and suggests expansion or contraction of the supplier portfolio to client teams - Execute category strategies and supply base development to meet the customer requirements based on pre-agreed actions with clients - Monitor supplier performance and facilitates the quarterly business reviews with supplier and client teams - Facilitate the execution of risk mitigation, business continuity, cost management and operation strategies by managing the expectations of cross functional stake-holders of client, suppliers and the company - Identify common contract risk areas, advises business representative and negotiates acceptable contracting outcomes using pre- agreed solutions with business representatives.

As a Senior Sourcing Lead in the Knowledge Services team you will be responsible for executing complex and strategic sourcing projects of categories/sub-categories to include: translating business requirements into clear statements of work, soliciting bids, leading auctions.    Also you will be responsible for: - Providing end to end sourcing execution on medium complexity projects - Support high complexity projects, but may need minor direction frommanager level team members - Support the creation of the Sourcing Strategy, but may need help from manager level team member to validate - Work allocation to junior team members and project management of S2C activities