Manager - Procurement - Electricals/Infra/Industrial Products

Location - Mumbai, Corporate Office

Reported by - Team Member - Procurement

Key Responsibilities :

Shall be responsible for:

- Responsible for implementing internal procurement strategies to cater to high delivery and short lead time requirements.

- Handle procurement cycles, lead times and purchasing requirements within overall business process of acquisition of goods or services, and minimization of response time while ensuring needs are met in a timely, satisfactory and cost effective manner.

- Communicating with diverse groups; meeting deadlines and schedules; working as part of a team; flexible to changing conditions; dealing with frequent interruptions and changing priorities; and maintaining confidentiality.

- Ensure that comparison Statements are prepared and vendors finalized as per standard operating procedures.

- Ensures compliance to quality, safety & environmental standards as per ISO.

- Forecasting likely levels of demand for services and products to meet the business needs and keeping a constant check on stock levels to maximize business efficiency.

- Planning / Budgeting / Policy guidelines for purchase of materials to meet production plans.

- Oversees required purchasing processes for the purpose of acquiring necessary resources to support district operation.

- Contribution to the process of purchase planning and develop materials department plans.

- Determine the appropriate source selection for materials, services, considering cost, quality and reliability.

- Work closely with production team at factory level all locations on all relevant issues such as quality, delivery, payments for smooth functioning.

- Implement latest strategy and process for achieving uninterrupted supply chain at best price and for best quality.

- Responds to inquiries from a variety of internal and external sources for the purpose of providing information, direction and/or appropriate referrals.

- Travel as required across territory (Plants, market, customers)

- Develop new vendors.

- Negotiate and finalize half yearly/yearly rate contracts with suppliers, service providers.

- Cost reduction through development of alternate suppliers and alternate materials. Ensure there would be minimum 3 suppliers for regular procurement.

- Ensure there should be no stock out situation at any plant location and also ensure there should not be over stock position.

- SOPs and systems to be followed to ensure optimum stock level are always maintained.

- Monitor timely receipt of material as per purchase order terms and ensure LD (liquidity damages) is deducted wherever applicable.

Other Responsibilities :

- Develop alternate product/ technology to cost saving and improve work efficiency.

Other requisites :

- Following shall be an added advantage:

- Techno commercial Knowledge

- Decent Market knowledge

- Good networking