AGM/GM - Planning & Costing Head - Appliances

Job purpose & Scope

Job Purpose: To decide procurement strategy, ensure availability of material & product cost optimization for CP business

Scope: Consumer Product Segment

1. Internal Customers: Sales/ Marketing

2. External Customers: Vendors/ Sub-vendors

Major Areas of Responsibilities & Authorities

1. Management of vendor, Sub-vendors & forming the vendor management policy

2. Overseeing the planning & demand management team to ensure availability, deciding Share of Business, inventory norm management, inventory optimization

3. Overseeing the costing team for carrying our product costing, cost optimization, benchmarking, BOM validations, commodity management

4. Chairing the monthly S&OP meeting with Business

5. Monitoring vendor performance

6. Ensuring adherence to the departmental SOPs

7. Interdepartmental coordination for resolution of issues and partnering in key initiatives

8. Leading the departmental initiatives & liasoning with vendor management team on various issues

9. Introducing & implementing best practices and ideas to make the team agile

10. Team Development for enhancing the skills set & productivity

11. Managing vendor relationship - Forming business plans with vendors & issue resolution

12. Leading the change management & key organizational initiatives

Person Specifications

Candidate Profile:

- Essential Qualification: BE/ B.Tech (Mechanical/ Electrical)

- Desired Qualification: MBA (operations)/ Statistics

- Experience: 12-15 years of experience

Industry Preference: Appliances, White goods, FMCG