Deputy General Manager/General Manager - Purchase - Auto Manufacturing

Deputy General Manager/General Manager - Purchase - Auto Manufacturing

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Building a Central lean procurement strategy

- Building a Central lean procurement strategy.

- Develop and implement a 3-year procurement t Strategy - for all RM, Plastic, Rubber, Paint, Steel, Copper, BOP's, VAVE, Packing material & Consumables and cost reductions

- Responsible for Price Increases/ decrease with the supplier

- First time price & payment term finalization

- Procurement of CAPEX & Machinery

- Based on Annual Budgets for all plants, prepare the annual purchasing budget for all RM / Consumables, etc. (and where possible Capital Expenditure) proposals as well as ensure compliance with customer schedules. Manage the budget from identification to completion of projects

- Drive cost-saving initiatives by developing alternate suppliers for RM in line with the required quality standards and renegotiations

- Ensure domestic RM Alternate sourcing / VA-VE / with direct manufacturer

- Ensure control of inventory / maintaining MSL of RM / BOP etc. in all plants to avoid line/production stoppage

- Cost savings irrespective of market rate fluctuations for all applicable items

- Timely cost settlement for RM / BOP / other applicable items so that there are no line-stoppers

- Ensure that all purchase processes are driven through ERP.

- Negotiate contract terms with key suppliers to ensure value for money, quality standards, and delivery terms with technical and operational input from stakeholders

- Forecast price and market trends to identify changes of balance in buyer-supplier power

- Set plant-wise objectives and monitor ongoing progress and performance

- Suggest aggressive strategies to Management to reduce purchasing costs

- Reducing the cost of purchase of RM / BOP / Consumables etc.

- Procurement of Tooling

- Reducing packing and logistics cost

- Develop robust purchase systems in all plants

- Develop a good integration between Corporate Purchase and Plant SCM team

- Develop a team of new capable alternate vendors to deliver quality and cost advantage/competitiveness