Job Description

It’s Time For A Change...

Your Future Evolves H ere

Evolent Health has a bold mission to change the health of the nation by changing the way health care is delivered. Our pursuit of this mission is the driving power that brings us to work each day. We believe in embracing new ideas, testing ourselves and failing forward. We respect and celebrate individual talents and team wins. We have fun while working hard and Evolenteers often make a difference in everything from scrubs to jeans.

Are we growing? Absolutely. We have seen about 30% average growth over the last three years. Are we recognized? Definitely. We were named one of “Becker’s 150 Great Places to Work in Healthcare” in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 and are proud to be recognized as a leader in driving important Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) efforts: Evolent achieved a 95% score on its first-ever submission to the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index ; was named on the Best Companies for Women to Advance List 2020 by Parity.org ; and we publish an annual Diversity and Inclusion Annual Report to share our progress on how we’re building an equitable workplace . We recognize employees that live our values, give back to our communities each year, and are champions for bringing our whole selves to work each day. If you’re looking for a place where your work can be personally and professionally rewarding, don’t just join a company with a mission. Join a mission with a company behind it.

Position summary & Essential functions

The Procurement Managers works closely with the Managing Director of Vendor Management and Managing Director of Finance. The Procurement Manager is responsible for running the day-to-day Procurement function out of Evolent’s India offices and leads a team of 9.

Procurement Strategy and Vision

• Work with the MD of Vendor Management and MD of Finance to build out and execute the overall strategy for Procurement at Evolent
• Lead Evolent’s efforts on cost optimization wherever possible
• Create a seamless procurement experience for employees on Workday
• Drive the automation and process improvement agenda for Procurement

Contracts

• Obtain contractual verbiage on major spends to drive a culture of zero-risk for Evolent on contractual obligations
• Enter legacy contracts in Workday to create a single source of truth for all contracts (one-time project)
• Enter and maintain new contracts in Workday and build a process to include sufficient terms and conditions to safeguard Evolent’s interests

Supplier administration and onboarding

• Review payment terms for every new supplier
• Build processes to mitigate risk of onboarding fraudulent suppliers
• Maintain documentation for new suppliers and ensure compliance under SOX regulations.
• Update the SOP and SOX narratives with the changes if any in the procedures & processes.

Purchase Orders

• Oversee the requisition to PO process
• Monitor efficiency and turn-around times for requisitions and PO’s
• Review, maintain and issue new PO’s in Workday to suppliers
• Coordinate change order requests from the business
• Review all open and aged PO’s to optimize spend commitments
• Expediting the orders as per the urgency of requirement to ensure timely delivery of goods/services by supplier
• Follow up with requestor to ensure timely approval of PO’s .

Reporting and analytics

• Provide information to Accounting for accurate accruals at close of period
• Prepare actionable insights on spend management for senior leadership
• Deliver customer service and stakeholder delight for overall process

Skill Set Requirements

The Experience You’ll Need (Required):

• A minimum 7+ years of experience in Procurement and supplier admin area in a large or mid-sized company
• Must understand Supplier compliance and due diligence requirement and should have worked for vendor master creation for international vendors (especially US)
• Strong excel and analytics skills with the ability to get into the detail
• Strong stakeholder management, customer delight with a continuous improvement mindset, problem anticipation and solution.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and communication skills, and the ability to influence others.
• Experience with any of the standard ERPs used for Procurement like – Workday, Oracle, Ariba

Finishing Touches (Preferred):

• Experience with a US based MNC will be a big+
• Strong written and oral communication skills and ability to convey business requirements and technical needs in a clear, concise, and effective manner

Academic Qualification

CA / MBA degree in Accounting or Finance

Physical demand:

Include the physical demands of the job, including bending, sitting, lifting and driving. For example, while performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.

Why Join Evolent?

Named among Forbes’ 2014 America’s Most Promising Companies and Glassdoor’s 2015 Best Places to Work, Evolent provides an opportunity to work with top talent in an organization committed to career development. While we come from a variety of backgrounds, we pursue a singular mission: to change the health of the nation by changing the way health care is delivered