Buyer - Software Sourcing, S

Date: 24 Nov 2025

Location:

Mumbai A.O, MUM-KND-AFS(AD), IN

Company: Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd

Responsibilities & Key Deliverables

Ensure Commitment & Delivery Adherence of Approved Purchase Requisitions in the areas of IT Software & Projects.

Devise plan and execute for cost saving against budget through negotiations, alternate sourcing & leveraging on AFS volumes.

Establish new Rate Contracts (RC's) in the area allocated

Controlling Turn around time (TAT) of Requisitions

Ongoing Price reduction / Value engineering

Supplier Selection & price settlement

Supplier Risk Management & Mitigation

Benchmarking of Technology & Prices in Industry

Maintaing database for ease of budgeting for users & price discovery

Preferred Industries

Automobile

Farm Sector

Education Qualification

BE. / B.Tech (CS / IT preferrably)

General Experience

4-5 years of experience

Critical Experience

This role comprises requirement of unique skillset for analysing, evaluating IT Softwares & Digital Projects from the point of procurement. Following core competencies are curcial -
1. Domain knowledge on Product Development & Business Application Softwares & Tech. Digital Projects.
2. Market intelligence & netwoking in collating relevant information for assessment of requirement, benchmarking to help in price exploration.
3. Domain knowledge on critical requirements such as Supply Chain Transformation, Digital Manufacturing etc from the point of analysing Data & prepare Strategy for commercail Negotiation.
4. Domain knowledge & understanding related to IT resource rates required for development of various Applications, Tools, Schemes etc. to enhance efficiency of Business & User / Customer experience.
Other skillset required are as below -
Sourcing Intelligence
Category Expertise
Problem Solving
Relationship Management
Business Analytics
Risk Management
Decision Making & Critical Thinking
Audits & Improvements
Monitoring & Tracking
Profesional integrity

Business Process Knowledge
Commercial Acumen
Communication Skills

System Generated Core Skills

Analytical Thinking

Communication Skills

Influencing Skills

Project Planning & Execution

Risk Analysis

Supplier Selection

Pricing

Price Optimization

Supplier Risk Management

Sourcing

Strategic Sourcing

Benchmarking

System Generated Secondary Skills

Negotiation

Project Management

Supplier Management