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Specialist, Procurement Controlling

Konecranes
Chennai, IND
Full-time
Senior · 8+ years experience
Hybrid
Discovered 1 months ago
Power BISievoSAP

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Your key responsibilities

  • Own the global inflation pressure simulation: Lead the outlook prepared for Annual Planning purposes as well as quarterly three-month updates throughout the year, including impact analysis against the original annual forecast, across direct and indirect procurement spend.
  • Deliver procurement market intelligence: Monitor relevant direct and indirect material commodities such as labour, energy, logistics, steel, copper and other cost drivers; use AI-enabled research to scale insight collection across market research, internal experts, external service providers and supplier-facing stakeholders; and translate external market movements into quantified procurement-spend impacts.
  • Maintain the simulation methodology and data model: Extract historical category spend, maintain the category-to-commodity correlation matrix, develop scenarios and ensure assumptions, calculation logic and outcomes are transparent and documented.
  • Analyse, communicate and document results: Use complementary sources such as Purchase Price Variance and PIR analyses to challenge outcomes, explain key drivers and delay effects, and provide concise updates, presentations and decision support to relevant stakeholders.
  • Maintain reporting and enable users: Own the functional maintenance and content of the inflation Power BI report and related Procurement House documentation and provide practical user guidance and training.
  • Govern supplier payment-term decrease requests: Validate requests through spend and business rationale reviews, apply defined thresholds and approval routes, coordinate execution support where applicable and safeguard alignment with policy, working-capital objectives and cost control.
  • Contribute to Procurement Controlling priorities: Support agreed strategic deliverables, the global savings validation process, harmonised reporting and the standardisation and productisation of recurring analyses and reports.
  • Develop procurement analytics capabilities: Support continuous improvement of Sievo and selected modules as a super user, strengthen data quality and adoption, provide stakeholder training, and further develop standards, guidelines and policies within the responsibility area.
  • Awareness of ISO 14001 & 45001 standard

Educational Qualification - Graduation/Post graduation in

  • business, procurement, supply chain management, finance, economics, data analytics or a comparable field.

Experience- 8-10 Years

Relevant experience in procurement analytics, market intelligence, procurement controlling, business controlling or a similar analytical role in an international environment.

A strong analytical mindset and the ability to build and explain forecasts, scenarios, spend-based models and impact analyses.

Understanding procurement economics and the way commodities, supplier, contract and timing effects can influence cost development and business performance.

A proactive, structured and accountable way of working, with the curiosity to investigate signals, challenge assumptions and improve established approaches

Skills & Knowledge

Strong research and analytical capability for monitoring and interpretation of global commodities, macroeconomic indicators, markets and cost trends.

Ability to summarize complex topics into clear conclusions, recommendations and executive-ready communication

Confident stakeholder management and collaboration skills across functions, business areas, regions, Category Managers, Supplier Managers and Category Specialists

Advanced data-handling skills; practical Power BI experience is expected, while experience with Sievo, SAP or comparable procurement and ERP platforms is an advantage.

Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills in English.

A service-oriented, collaborative mindset and willingness to travel internationally when required.

Why join us?

We are a global company with history dating back to 1910 - with future looking attitude that has brought us here today. Now together, we are shaping the next generation of material handling for smarter and safer world.

We believe in creating a workplace that is built on trust, flexibility, friendliness and inclusivity towards each other and culture with open communication and low hierarchy. We are a strong expert organisation where you are able to use modern tools and technologies - while embracing agile methodologies and continuous learning and development.

What we offer?

  • Competitive Salary.
  • Work-Life balance.
  • Innovative and dynamic working environment.
  • Support of an excellent Team.
  • Possibility to work in leading crane building company with leading technology.
  • Interested? If this role sparked your interest, please submit your application as soonest, on our career site. Please note that position will be filled when we find a suitable person. For any additional query feel free to write at - [email protected]
  • Konecranes moves what matters . We are a global leader in material handling solutions, serving a broad range of customers across multiple industries. We consistently set the industry benchmark, from everyday improvements to the breakthroughs at moments that matter most, because we know we can always find a safer, more productive and sustainable way. That's why, with 16 000+ professionals in over 50 countries, we are trusted every day to lift, handle and move what the world needs. Konecranes is committed to ensuring that all employees and job applicants are treated fairly in an environment which is free from any form of discrimination.

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