Lead - Purchase - Agri Chemicals

Our client is a Premium Business House .We are looking for Lead Purchase with at least 6-7 Years experience in AGRI CHEMICALS and overall 10-18years experience

The primary responsibilities of this role, Lead - Purchasing, are to:

- Manage the buying activities with close collaboration with Production, Quality and finance

- Lead and develop together with R&D and Quality, product based strategic suppliers

- Look for ways on improving the working capital and strengthening relationships with suppliers

- Develop, lead and participate in Special Projects with high impact on procurement cost and inventory

- Regular follow up and sharing the changes and challenges in the chemical ecosystem to help the business develop a strategy for safety stocking or backward integration etc.

- Ensure compliance to all internal process and Government regulations.

- Lead a high-performance team that embraces continuous improvement objective

- Use constructive techniques that support company growth and digitization aspiration

WHO YOU ARE

Your success will be driven by your demonstration of our LIFE values. More specifically related to this position, Astec seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry/Chemical Engineering with at least 12 - 15 years' of experience in Supply Chain, Procurement, Product Supply; or a Master's Degree and at least 10 years of Purchase experience;

- At least ten years of direct supervisory experience, including demonstrated ability to attract and develop talent and build teams

- An excellent understanding of Chemicals and intermediate value chain, Supply Chain Management, interrelation with R&D, Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, Finance, and other functional areas

- Be proficient with SAP and the PP/DS and SNP modules within SAP or APO

- Excellent organizational, interpersonal, management, communication, and decision-making skills

- Customer focus, including demonstrated continuous improvement projects

- Proven organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills to appropriately balance short-term business demands.