Lead - Strategic Sourcing

Company Description

About Freshworks

Freshworks makes it fast and easy for businesses to delight their customers and employees. We do this by taking a fresh approach to building and delivering software that is affordable, quick to implement, and designed for the end user. More than 50,000 companies -- from startups to public companies -- around the world use Freshworks software-as-a-service to enable a better customer experience (CRM) and employee experience (ITSM, HRSM).

Headquartered in San Mateo, California, Freshworks has a dedicated team operating from 13 global locations to serve 50,000+ customers including Bridgestone, Chargebee, DeliveryHero, ITV, Klarna, Multichoice, OfficeMax, TaylorMade and Vice Media.

Freshworks transforms the way world-class organizations collaborate with customers and co-workers. The suite includes Freshdesk (omni-channel customer support), Freshsales (sales automation), Freshmarketer (marketing automation), Freshservice (IT service desk), Freshteam (HR management system).

Freshworks has received numerous accolades including 2019 Startup of the Year form Economic Times, #16 ranking on the Forbes’ Cloud 100 list and #22 on the Battery Ventures/Glassdoor Best Places to Work in 2020. Our suite of products has also been recognized by analysts including the Gartner Magic Quadrants for CRM Customer Engagement, IT Service Management and Sales Force Automation.

While Freshworks has had incredible organic growth over the last few years, the company also has made targeted acquisitions that add critical capabilities to the portfolio including Natural Language Processing, Chatbots, Machine Learning, Social and Messaging Transformation. Freshworks has raised over $400 million in capital and is funded by Accel, CapitalG, Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global Management. More information is available at www.Freshworks.com.

At Freshworks, we are creating a global workplace that enables everyone to find their true potential, purpose and passion, irrespective of their background, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion or ethnicity. We are committed to providing equal opportunity for all and believe that diversity in the workplace creates a more vibrant, richer work environment that advances the goals of our employees, our communities and our business

Job Description

• Maintain contracts in contracts repository: updated with parent -child linkage, meta data, validate executed contracts. Identify and tracks issues, coordinate and track remediation action with global SS team, vendor, risk teams and business stake holders till closure.
• Support and execute efficient processes:

To support locating and understanding how to upload manage and retrieve documentation across tools

• Support ad-hoc projects on contract management and administration – transition to new tool etc.
• Exposure to ERP tools, preferably Coupa: including all modules of procure to pay cycle from vendor set-up to payment process.
• Exposure to procure to pay cycle, purchase order/contract processing, data analysis and reporting catalogue management and vendor management.
• Deep understanding of contract review process, contract templates and contract clauses especially master agreement, NDA’s, amendments etc.
• Review basic contractual documents (PO, work orders, service orders) from a contractual and commercial perceptive to ensure compliance with company policies and practices.
• Experience working with globally distributed internal and external teams.
• Collaborates XFN teams to meet the objective, business controls and compliance requirements.
• Review of contracts from a commercial perspective, to ensure value for money and reduced risk for the organisation.
• Negotiate cost structure across multiple spend categories to drive savings and avoidance for the organisation.
• Contributing to the creation and maintenance of spend category strategies.
• Manage and support the vendor relationship, contract and high-level sourcing of top spend categories where the products, services or vendors are used across multiple sites or business units.
• Be process driven and project focused with ability to prioritise and get projects completed in set timeframe.
• Prioritize workload under direction of your line manager to meet the changing demands of the business and the market.

Additional Information

At Freshworks, we are creating a global workplace that enables everyone to find their true potential, purpose, and passion irrespective of their background, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion and ethnicity. We are committed to providing equal opportunity for all and believe that diversity in the workplace creates a more vibrant, richer work environment that advances the goals of our employees, communities and the business.