Sustainable Procurement Strategy Program Manager

Posted: Thursday, 09 January 2025
Valid Thru: Saturday, 08 February 2025
Index Requested on: 01/09/2025 19:15:54
Indexed on: 01/09/2025 19:15:54

Location: Bangalore, KA, , IN

Industry: Advertising and Public Relations
Occupational Category: 13-0000.00 - Business and Financial Operations
Type of Employment: FULL_TIME

Schneider Electric is hiring!

Description:

Title: Work Sustainable Procurement Expert

Description - External

Description

We are currently seeking a self-driven professional for leading the execution of Decent Work Program with a passion for upholding human rights and facilitate inclusive workplaces to join our Sustainable Procurement team. This position is based out of Bangalore or Shanghai.

What will you do:
  • Understand the sustainable procurement framework of Schneider Electric and gain subject matter knowledge on ESG-environmental, social and governance topics including current and emerging decent work and human rights issues in supply chain.
  • Manage and lead global implementation of designated sustainability initiatives with suppliers, as mentioned below, but not limited to:
    • Decent Work Program (#6)
      • Coordinate and co-manage global execution of the decent work program with all internal and external stakeholders, including but not limited to Global Procurement Services, regional/category procurement teams, SE digital teams, suppliers, expert 3rd party agencies
      • Engage, onboard and manage working relationship with all relevant internal and external stakeholders to ensure smooth functioning of the program, including
        • relevant contractual obligations, as and when required
        • agreeing on working model, plan and timely execution
        • timely responding to any queries/clarifications associated with the program
      • Manage the annual onboarding of eligible strategic suppliers in the program
        • Co-lead annual update exercise with global procurement effectiveness team
        • Review and validate the strategic supplier list (data quality-duplication, inconsistency and others)
        • Validating the supplier nomination with regional/category procurement teams
        • Supplier engagement via procurement teams to ensure all strategic suppliers are onboarded
      • Manage (create, engage and monitor) implementation of working plan for timely review of the supplier responses and feedback by the 3rd party expert agency (current or future)
      • Manage (create, monitor) the tasks to be executed by the Global Procurement Services and ensure the quality review
      • Manage creation (co-ordinate, validate and execute user acceptance) and launch of survey in the SSPSRM
      • Develop innovative solutions and implementation model for challenges related to decent work topics, including but not limited to living wage, responsible recruitment
        • Co-lead the end to end initiative with all stakeholders
        • Engage and lead the pilot execution with suppliers
      • Co-lead initiative for quantification of tangible/intangible benefits of decent work program to a company
        • Develop pilot to document the success stories, quantify and validate the impact
      • Monitor and report #6/Decent Work KPI for internal and external reporting
      • Develop and coordinate implementation of a plan for internal and external training and awareness sessions (face-to-face and virtual, live and recorded)
      • Expand the program to include various legal entities as and when required
      • Benchmark decent work practices as implemented by Schneider Electric in its own operations and other leading companies
  • Business Process Optimization:
    • Leading and supporting continues improvements
    • Monitoring and optimizing the workflow and communication protocol involving various stakeholder and participating teams.
    • Provides consultative guidance to advise business users on best practice processes based on knowledge of various types of packaging
    • Participate in regular meetings with the different stakeholders to ensure continuous improvement is addressed
  • Work collaboratively with other departments (Procurement, Finance, HR, IT, etc. as required) to improve data integrity or clear system issues.
  • Training & Change Management:
    • Develop subject matter expertise (ESG-environmental, social and governance topics) and stay abreast of new or existing issues through application training to promote effective system performance and optimize business utilization of applications
    • Obtain relevant certifications in the field of human rights and working conditions
    • Support and coach additional team members


Qualifications - External
  • Technical expertise
    • Sustainable procurement
      • Hands on experience on leading engagement with procurement teams and suppliers on sustainability topics, especially decent work, human rights and inclusive work place
  • Advanced digital skills: Tableau, AI, ML, RPAs and understanding of programming algorithm to develop RPA capability within team.
    • Strong MS Office tool skills are mandatory
  • Strong verbal/written English communications skills
  • Excellent reporting skills
  • Ability to work in complex virtual organization with multiple stakeholders
  • Ability to manage high work load and pressure situations
  • Process and technology oriented
  • Demonstrated leadership skills: Influence, drive for results, effective planning /prioritization, project management & collaboration
  • Nice to have: proven track of record of leading Sustainability programs focus on Environment (supplier decarbonization, energy audit & efficiency, Green materials, ...)
  • Executive presence
  • Bachelor's degree in Sustainability, Environmental Management, Industrial Relations (focus on worker rights), Supply chain, Information Systems, Business, Accounting or Engineering


Preference will be given to candidate with
  • Knowledge and/or experience in
    • Hands on experience in handling commercial procurement, supplier engagement/management
    • Implementation of sustainability initiatives with suppliers
    • Packaging projects handling at global scale


Schedule: Full-time
Req: 0096RO

Responsibilities:

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Educational requirements:

  • high school

Desired Skills:

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Benefits:

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