General Manager - Procurement - FMCG

- Procurement Strategy - Formulate and implement procurement mid-term strategy in line with Global & long term business plan.

- Vendor Development & Evaluation - Drive vendor development process from identification to qualification (from Global team). Periodic evaluation jointly with supply chain & Quality.

- Budgeting - Lead Preparation to Approval process of yearly budgeting & Monthly tracking of Price variance along with Global Packaging controller.

- Strategic Sourcing - Procurement & Negotiation of Printing (Laminate, Label, Cartons) & Non Printed (injection molding) for India and Europe.

- Aggressive Procurement - Smartly hedging the risk to beat commodity & exchange volatility and keep ahead of industry standard rates.

- Vendor Administration & Capacity Management - Strengthening of supplier relationship, resolving satisfactorily various vendor issues. Jointly make vendor Capacity management along with supply chain with respect to company growth & market dynamics.

- Trend Analysis - Track local & global commodity & input prices with center category team . Analysis of market & price movement affecting to confectionary industry

- Costing & Compliance - Prepared structured costing sheet for all items in accordance with companies internal control.

- Cross Functional- Effective representation of Procurement department with other local & global functions ( DPU, Supply chain, Operation, Quality Finance, Packaging Development, Marketing) .

- Innovation Continuously Identify, evaluate & facilate new packaging trends & technology development for cost & productivity improvement.

- Benchmarking - Constant evaluation of - Total Packaging cost concept- viz a via - Local & Global Market, Confectionary & Food industry

- Risk Management - Conduct Periodic risk assessment of items & suppliers & work out risk mitigating action plan.

- Promo\ NPD - Lead cross function team for timely execution of promo & new product development\launches.