Costa Rica Job Openings

WNS Denali

Senior Group Manager - Procurement Services (AM)

San Jose

FULL TIME

August 23, 2024

Company Description
WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS) is a global Business Process Management (BPM) leader. WNS offers business value to 400+global clients by combining operational excellence with deep domain expertise in key industry verticals, including Banking and Financial Services, Consulting and Professional Services, Healthcare, Insurance, Manufacturing, Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods, Shipping and Logistics, Telecommunications, Travel and Utilities. WNS Costa Rica - Launched in 2009, the WNS Costa Rica delivery center is fully functional and scalable, We are spread across more than nine countries across North America, South America, and Europe serving various industries like Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods, and Insurance with Strong socio-political factors such as political and economic stability, highest literacy rate in the region and a sizeable young and educated population having a strong multi-lingual population with English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, etc.Why Join Us?At WNS, our mission is to enable clients to outperform with our passion for service and innovation. At the heart of each client engagement is our pursuit to understand our client’s business, and create impactful solutions that can drive agility and excellence into their business processes. Our promise of outperformance stems from our deep domain expertise, partnership approach and a global delivery network.Our mission as an organization is guided by our CIRCLE of values: Client First, Integrity, Respect, Collaboration, Learning, Excellence.We promise our employees to experience role clarity, coaching and mentoring, professional development and structured career path through our 5 people promises and keeping employee experience at the core.

Job Description
Job Description:
The Engagement Manager will act as the overall owner of the procurement program for a specific client. He/she will lead the operations, make operational decisions and facilitate changes to services and ensure alignment on client expectations with the delivery team. The Engagement Manager will attend day to day operational issues, manage client relationship, act as the liaison and single point of contact with the client. The Engagement Manager is expected to use discretion in applying best practices and procedures to resolve issues, demonstrate a broad and thorough understanding and application of technical and/or specialized concepts and knowledge in business and procurement in solving client problems. The Engagement Manager is also responsible for implementing new processes, facilitating documentation and training necessary to roll out new procurement programs, and overall change management activities required for client’s new procurement initiatives. Deliver: Sold
Scope and Performance:

Provide leadership to the entire delivery team from a process, quality, and performance perspective
Manage and Develop Team
Farm new Business Opportunities
Deliver Sold Scope and Performance
Assist delivery leaders to setup and manage the central project queue, assign projects to team members
Assist clients with rolling out procurement programs, including change management, communication strategy, and business process improvement initiatives
Act as the first point of escalation with the team and client, communicating and resolving operational issues
Ensure the client engagement is executed successfully per contract requirements.
Balance client requests against Denali’s interests
Provide leadership and consultation on strategic projects with high importance and visibility within the client
Meet with the client program management team on a weekly basis and lead operations discussions
Prepare and track metrics reporting for the entire program
Lead process improvement discussions to enhance operations. and communicate changes to client and delivery teams
Ensure client specific processes and exceptions are documented in a category strategy and other available Intellectual Capital (IC)Take initiative to develop templates and job aids to improve efficiency and effectiveness of Denali processes
Determine resource capacity of the delivery team needed to support client requirements and work with operations to implement
Arrange and coordinate training & development needs of the team on client specific processes and requirements.
Listen for the needs of the client business groups and kick off conversations and introductions with our growth team to expand account scope and revenue

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Strong consultative skills, including but not limited to change management, program management, business process improvement, sourcing methodology, e Sourcing technology, RFX development and management, communications management, and marketing internal programs
Mastery of client specific processes, terminology, political environment, systems and unique requirements by various business groups
Strong customer service orientation
Excellent written and verbal communication skills (both internally, with client stakeholders, and the supplier community)
Negotiation skills
Excellent project management skills including project planning, time management, multitasking, critical path definition
A strong leader and a team player
Solid decision-making ability using available facts in sensitive client situations
Excellent problem-solving ability
Ability to manage multiple projects and initiatives simultaneously
A strong business acumen and P&L experience on a program level
Ability to develop and implement processes across multiple programs to create consistency and efficiencies

Qualifications
Required Education and Experience

Master’s Degree
8 to 15 years work experience in operational, program management, consulting capacity
Prior management experience of up to 10+ people on a project level
5+ year’s experience in procurement process
Service delivery and Consulting experience is a MUST

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