Head - Bottle Procurement - Alco Beverage Firm

Head Bottle Procurement

Career opportunity with leading Alcobeverage organisation

Experience - 8 to 12 years

Location - Bangalore

Preferably -Woman candidates

Roles & Responsibilities :

Category Management

- Contribute to development of overall budgets and plans for the P&L department by providing information and insight related to Bottle Procurement operations

- Determine the optimal strategy for sourcing for each category of packaging material (old and new bottles; cans, crowns and foils; corrugate, labels, glue, misc. packaging material) at an organizational level

- Determine if current supplier ecosystem/capacities can fulfill demand; If not, determine way forward for the balance requirement through imports, new supplier onboarding in the domestic market

- Lead team in preparing risk matrices for each category; Draw inferences and determine any course-corrections, as required

Contract Management

- Lead team in identifying suppliers for each category, oversee RFQ process and conduct bid evaluation (from a technical and commercial standpoint)

- Participate in negotiations with suppliers and determine L1/L2/L3

- Participate in finalization of technical requirements and commercials for each category

- Provide recommendation on final supplier to award contract to and submit to relevant stakeholders for final approval

- Partner with legal team and suppliers to execute contract formalities

- Drive inclusion of terms and conditions in contracts to promote and protect interests

- Conduct periodic review of the execution of contracts based on actual achievement; Identify gaps and lead issue resolution, as required

- Lead team in driving timely updation of contract terms in SAP

Compliances & Internal Reporting

- Drive adherence to laid down SOPs for bottle procurement related activities

- Develop terms and conditions for contracts with external ecosystem (suppliers, vendors, agents etc.), promoting and protect interests

- Lead team in building supplier awareness on SOPs, compliances, buyer's code and guidelines

- Guide team to provide required financial reporting for each category

Stakeholder Management

- Partner with P&L team, brewery heads and cluster heads to drive robust planning and effective conflict resolution, as required

- Build, sustain and leverage relationships with vendors/suppliers to protect and promote company's interests