Amagi - Senior Procurement Manager

Founded in 2008, Amagi Media Labs is rapidly disrupting the TV broadcasting Industry as we know it. Amagi provides a geo-targeted ad platform which helps local advertisers to display ads on national channels at fraction of the cost. Today Amagi is the biggest TV AD Network with over 30 million advertising seconds served working with 2500+ advertisers. Amagi also provide cloud based infrastructure to broadcasters across the world and help them to save cost of satellite as well as hardware. Today amagi works with broadcasters such as Zee TV, Zee News, IBN7, CNBC, H&C,UK etc. To know more about what Amagi does, look at:

Amagi's Ad Network-https://www.youtube.com/watch- v=dHc-79gEVcA

Amagi's Cloud Playout - https://www.youtube.com/watch- v=QLCBIHfwKFU

Objective: As Senior procurement manager you will be responsible for negotiating, purchasing and managing 3rd party supplier relationships and will be responsible for inventory management of all parts procured. You will work with internal teams to identify the right vendor and ensure best price and quality of goods and services procured.The Sourcing leader will drive the sourcing process, supervise day-to-day vendor relationships and ensure quality/SLAs of delivery from vendors.

Reporting to: CFO

Location : Bangalore

Duties and responsibilities:

Work with internal engineering, manufacturing, operations and sales teams to identify right vendors/suppliers for parts, products and services needed

Evaluate multiple vendors on costs/quality/delivery capability working with internal teams and negotiate best possible prices

Negotiate delivery terms & conditions and ensure smooth execution of procurement - work with legal as needed for contract negotiation

Monitor and manage delivery of products and services from vendors to meet required quality, SLA and time requirements

Work with finance team to ensure timely payments and management of vendor requirements

Build deep relationships with suppliers / vendors including conducting quarterly business reviews

Participate in contract dispute/resolution processes as needed including termination / re-contracting as needed

Manage and evaluate overall supplier performance

Update, monitor and report regularly on projects and supplier scorecard metrics such as delivery timelines, cost savings etc.

Identify, recommend and communicate opportunities for policy and process improvements and track customer satisfaction

Play an integral role in establishing supplier performance standards

Manage inventory of all procured parts and create systems/processes for smooth inventory management

Desired Skills and Experience:

- Strong integrity and ethics

- Minimum 10 years of supply chain management experience

- Minimum 7 years of demonstrated experience in evaluating supplier programs and identifying cost savings, monitoring supplier performance and compliance and conducting contract negotiations, agreement reviews

- Demonstrated experience working with international suppliers / service providers and negotiating contracts & pricing

- Comfortable with data and analytics to analyze and report performance

- Capable of negotiating for procurement of technical products

- Proven negotiation and contracting skills in a commercial business environment specific to achieving favorable prices and services

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills, and the ability to communicate to technical and nontechnical audiences

- Inventory management process experience