PARTNER - Supply Chain - Consumer

Job Description

Lead Wipro Consulting's Enterprise Spend Management growth agenda across procurement, source-to-pay, supplier management, and adjacent order-to-cash intersections. The role owns executive relationships, consulting sales, complex transformation delivery, thought leadership, alliances, and practice capability.

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Content Capability:

Enterprise Spend Strategy
• Develop spend-management strategies, maturity assessments, target operating models, category strategies, organization designs, roadmaps, and business cases.
• Link third-party spend, demand management, supplier value, compliance, risk, cash, and sustainability outcomes.
Source-to-Pay Transformation
• Lead strategic sourcing, category management, e-sourcing, contracting, supplier onboarding, procurement, catalogs, guided buying, invoicing, payments, and spend analytics transformation.
• Address procurement policy, controls, tail spend, supplier risk, performance, diversity, and contract value leakage.
Connected Commercial Processes
• Connect source-to-pay with order-to-cash, finance, treasury, tax, inventory, and supply chain operations.
• Shape AI-enabled sourcing, category intelligence, contract analytics, supplier insights, intake orchestration, and autonomous procurement.

Key Responsibilities

Practice and Market Leadership
• Lead the relevant practice portfolio, business strategy, offerings, alliances, capability roadmap, talent plan, and market positioning.
• Build reusable IP, methods, benchmarks, case studies, and market-facing thought leadership; represent Wipro in executive and industry forums.
Client Engagement and Consulting Execution
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior executives; frame strategic issues, direct complex engagements, and ensure quality, client satisfaction, and measurable outcomes.
• Govern scope, economics, delivery assurance, risk, value capture, and senior stakeholder alignment across multidisciplinary programs.
Business Development
• Own and grow a consulting pipeline; originate, shape, qualify, price, negotiate, and close premium consulting opportunities and extensions.
• Use strategic assessments, fit-gap analyses, business cases, and journey maps to create practical entry points that can expand into larger Wipro transformation programs.
• Create pull-through for Wipro technology, engineering, data, cloud, applications, and business operations services.
People and Community Leadership
• Hire, retain, coach, and develop consulting talent and next-level leaders; build an inclusive, collaborative, high-performance community.
• Drive knowledge reuse, cross-practice collaboration, skill development, and contribution to Wipro methods and assets.

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Required Experience
• 15+ years of global experience, calibrated to the selected band and demonstrated scope of leadership.
• 15+ years of global consulting and transformation experience with recognized enterprise spend-management expertise.
• Proven ability to sell, shape, and lead large procurement and source-to-pay transformations with CPO, CFO, COO, CIO, and business-unit stakeholders.
• Deep expertise in strategic sourcing, category management, procurement operating models, supplier management, e-procurement, contracting, spend analytics, and value realization.
• Experience connecting procurement transformation with order-to-cash, working capital, ERP, data, integration, controls, and change.
• Track record building offerings, alliances, reusable IP, thought leadership, and high-performing consulting teams.
Technology / Platform Experience
Experience advising on or delivering transformation involving one or more of the following is preferred:
• SAP Ariba, Coupa, Ivalua, Jaggaer, Oracle Procurement, SAP S/4HANA, or comparable source-to-pay platforms
• Contract lifecycle management platforms such as Icertis or comparable solutions
• Spend analytics, supplier risk/data platforms, e-sourcing, procurement orchestration, process mining, and AI-enabled procurement
• ERP, master data, tax, treasury, AP automation, integration/API, analytics, and workflow ecosystems
What Good Looks Like
• Connects strategy, process, operating model, data, technology, change, controls, and quantified value.
• Creates clear, executive-ready recommendations and practical transformation roadmaps.
• Builds trusted client relationships and protects outcomes through explicit scope, assumptions, dependencies, governance, and benefits tracking.
• Collaborates across Wipro and partner ecosystems to move from advisory through implementation and sustained value.
Band-Specific Performance Expectations
• Lead practice or account growth, consulting revenue, margin, market positioning, and integrated deal development.
• Carry agreed personal and practice sales, order-book, utilization, and client-impact objectives.
• Develop senior relationships beyond the CIO organization and create pull-through across Wipro service lines.
• Build consulting talent, next-level leaders, alliances, thought leadership, and a sustainable capability pipeline.

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