Senior Procurement Consultant - Spend and Cost Optimization, AI Focus
EY · Posted Nov 6, 2026
- Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Senior
- 5–8 years
Lead spend diagnostics, strategic sourcing, cost optimization, and value realization initiatives using procurement expertise, AI, advanced analytics, and market intelligence.
Responsibilities
- Lead spend diagnostics, baseline development, opportunity assessments, and savings potential analysis across direct and indirect categories.
- Identify and deliver value through strategic sourcing, demand management, specification optimization, supplier consolidation, compliance improvement, value engineering, and working‑capital levers.
- Develop category‑level strategies using spend data, market intelligence, supplier analysis, cost drivers, should‑cost models, and Total Cost of Ownership.
- Establish robust savings validation, governance, implementation tracking, and benefits realization.
- Apply AI and advanced analytics to spend classification, data enrichment, price variance analysis, demand leakage detection, supplier consolidation, and savings forecasting.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Procurement, Supply Chain, Engineering, Finance, Economics, Business, Data Analytics, or a related discipline