Regional Lead - Global Buying Centre

About the Role

Global Buying Centre was formed two years back to handle the spend under a threshold of $250K USD globally because the Strat Sourcing team handles the high dollar spend only. The low to mid complexity level spend and the unmanaged spend comes under the purview of GBC which is now part of the P2P team. This role requires the person to be good at negotiations, spend analysis and must possess strong persuasion skills. This role is important from compliance, risk mitigation wrt third party spend and cost optimization perspective for Uber.

Your Impact in Role

• Overseeing the progress of projects handled by the team and guiding them on the negotiations and overall process for APAC and EMEA.
• Training team members on the process and generating SOPs for the new improved processes'.
• Handling and managing a team of 3- 4 resources from a third party.
• Reporting to the Manager and Global Lead for the Global Buying center about the savings targets and other goals, building relationships with senior stakeholders within and outside Sourcing, converting unmanaged spend to managed spend and coaching team on Docusign CLM and Coupa usage.

What You Will Need

• Sourcing and procurement experience (end to end procurement) along with people management skills.
• Must have worked in varied category sourcing in order to be able to guide the team members when they are working on projects of different categories like - technology, workplace, professional services, marketing and corporate services etc.
• Having a knowledge and hands on experience of spend analysis and analytics is also must for creating reports and dashboards.
• AI fluency - Gemini/ Chat GPT is needed for bringing efficiencies in the current system.
• Experience in Google Studio/ Tableau for the Analytics part is preferred.
• Process improvement/ Lean champion and Automation expertise preferred.
• Analytical bend of mind is needed for this role to handle large sets of spend files.

Uber's mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuelds progress. What moves us, moves the world - let's move it forward, together.

Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.

*Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@uber.com.

Client-provided location(s): Gurgaon, India

Job ID: Uber-149288

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-10-11T00:30:48