Emeritus is committed to teaching the skills of the future by making high-quality education accessible and affordable to individuals, companies, and governments around the world. It does this by collaborating with more than 50 top-tier universities across the United States, Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia, India and China. Emeritus’ short courses, degree programs, professional certificates, and senior executive programs help individuals learn new skills and transform their lives, companies and organizations. Its unique model of state-of-the-art technology, curriculum innovation, and hands-on instruction from senior faculty, mentors and coaches has educated more than 250,000 individuals across 80+ countries. Founded in 2015, Emeritus, part of Eruditus Group, has more than 2,000 employees globally and offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Shanghai, Singapore, Palo Alto, Mexico City, New York, Boston, London, and Dubai. Following its $650 million Series E funding round in August 2021, the Company is valued at $3.2 billion, and is backed by Accel, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Leeds Illuminate, Prosus Ventures, Sequoia Capital India, and Bertelsmann.
Role Overview:The purpose of this position is to lead the Learning Procurement Team. The successful candidate will have excellent time management skills, excellent written and verbal communication skills, process and documentation orientation, and the desire to work in a fast-paced educational tech environment. The role will primarily include the procurement of digital assets for the upcoming and running courses worldwide. This will involve designing cost saving strategies for procurement, maintaining supplier relationship, updating purchase records. The role will be responsible for ensuring that procurement is done within the scheduled milestones. This role will also be managing the work within defined processes and SLAs. This role will ensure that escalations are monitored and resolved in timely manner, while responding to all the stakeholders with accurate update.Role responsibilities:- Devising and using procurement and sourcing strategies.
- Managing Learning procurement (digital learning assets) activities.
- Point of contact for any procurement or purchase of Learning assets in the organization.
- Managing supplier relations and negotiating contracts, prices, timelines, etc.
- Finalize purchase details of orders and deliveries.
- Maintaining the supplier database, purchase records, and related documentation.
- Ensuring that all procured items meet the required quality standards and specifications.
- Preparing cost estimates and managing budgets.
- Working to improve purchasing systems and processes.
- Track and report key functional metrics to reduce expenses and improve effectiveness.
- Control spend and build a culture of long-term saving on procurement costs.
- Supplier Invoice reconciliation
- Liaison with the legal team and stakeholders to negotiate and finalize the contract amp; SoW with suppliers
- You will work with the relevant stakeholders for commercial problem discovery and resolution.
Key skills qualifications:- Any Graduate/MBA
- High level of integrity
- Proven working experience of 5-8 yrs. as a Procurement Officer
- Good knowledge of supplier or third-party management software
- Aptitude in decision-making and working with numbers
- Eye for detail
- Good understanding of the procurement process, risks, dos and don'ts
- Excellent at collating and analysing data
- Strong leadership skills
- Excellent Communication and negotiation skills
- Preferred to be experienced in Ed tech/eLearning procurement background
- Must have team management skills (handling 1- 2) team members
- Must have experience in cross functional team coordination
Emeritus provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.