Sr. Manager - Procurement

Your role

• Service Delivery Oversight of the Core Procurement Process
• Coordinate and supervise delivery of Bid → RFP → Evaluation → Recommendation → Negotiation → PO/LOA steps across the AtkinsRéalis India team.
• Ensure documentation, templates, approval workflows, and checklist standards are followed consistently and completely.
• Provide hands‑on support, coaching, and issue resolution to enable consistent team performance and service continuity.
• Monitor progress of procurement packages, manage operational bottlenecks, and escalate material risks, exceptions, or delays to the Associate Director in a timely manner.
• Provide day‑to‑day guidance, task allocation, and workload balancing for a team of procurement professionals.
• Monitor and review team outputs for completeness, accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with required process standards.
• Identify skill gaps, provide on-the-job coaching, support training needs, and contribute to capability development initiatives across the AtkinsRéalis India team.
• Ensure consistent application of BMS (Bid Management System) processes, DOA/LOA rules, and procurement compliance requirements across team activities.
• Coordinate preparation and organisation of audit evidence, track findings, and support timely closure of corrective actions within the AtkinsRéalis India team's scope.
• Support continuous improvement activities, including lessons learned, root-cause review, and identification of opportunities to simplify or streamline processes.
• Ensure team members use ERP/SRM systems correctly and maintain required
• standards of data accuracy, completeness, and system hygiene.
• Support framework agreement documentation, tracking, updates, and compliance monitoring within the AtkinsRéalis India team's delivery scope.
• Maintain logs, trackers, dashboards, and reporting inputs required for operational visibility, governance reporting, and KPI monitoring.
• Serve as the primary coordination point for routine operational queries from internal teams, including Bid, Commercial, Finance, and Operations.
• Ensure stakeholders receive clear, timely instructions, documentation, status updates, and process timelines related to procurement activities managed by the AtkinsRéalis India team.
• Escalate strategic, commercial, policy, or sensitive stakeholder matters to the Associate Director and/or relevant regional leadership for direction and resolution.
• Manage intake, prioritisation, triage, and coordination of non‑standard or urgent procurement requests
• Ensure each request meets minimum compliance, documentation, and governance requirements before progression for approval.
• Work with the Associate Director to maintain alignment with category strategies, regional priorities, and broader CPO objectives.