Manager - Purchase - Dairy

To take charge of Dairy procurement of Raw Material and Packaging Material requirements, across pan - India production operations.

1. Work out procurement plan based on the sales forecast & BOM.

2. Review of purchase status on a weekly basis from all the plants as well as company owned co-packers and alert on any surprises or variations.

3. Exploring various possibilities on saving potential, to move in market place to find the landed prices, especially for ingredients mentioned above.

4. Consolidating tender prices on regular basis and have tap on tender release dates.

5. Prepare the purchase order, inform accounts for execution of RTGS and other formalities.

6. Negotiation for discounts on material & monitoring the market to set the primary & secondary rates.

7. Ensuring the integrity of the Material Manual and updating changes if any.

8. Quarterly review of the rates across the country for any variations.

9. Working out the basis of cost and getting into value engineering for having a better hold on negotiations.

10. Meeting vendors and developing new and better vendors while retaining the vendors that have already been developed.

11. Final negotiations with all the vendors to work out the best possible rates.

12. Streamlining SAP and ensuring its smooth functioning.

13. Ensuring minimum variance of Material, Chemicals & Consumables at all the locations.

14. Centralized negotiation of rates for purchase of materials, scrap rates etc.

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE:

- Extensive relevant exposure in a Dairy organization is essential.

QUALIFICATION:

- B. Tech (Food technology) - preferred

- Post Graduate in Materials Management - preferred

SKILL SET (Knowledge\Functional\Behavioural):

- The ability to develop and network with optimum associations.

- Proven success driving results and delivering return on investment to the company.

- Comprehensive functional skills and a result - driven approach.

- Exposure to Dairy manufacturing facilities.

- Having Good knowledge of relevant purchase procedures

- MS Office

- SAP

- Market scenarios for the concerned products