Mgr - Commercial Procurement & Media - FMCG

Manager - Commercial Procurement & Media with a FMCG Giant

JOB TITLE: Manager – Commercial Procurement & Media

REPORTS TO: General Manager – Commercial Procurement and Media

COUNTRY: India

BUSINESS UNIT :Consumer Healthcare

DEPARTMENT: Commercial Procurement & Media

LOCATION: Gurgaon (HO)

JOB PURPOSE:

- To source goods and services required by stakeholders and ensure company obtains the most favorable terms with regards to assurance of supply, quality, service, cost and innovation. The role will support global projects for specific categories within commercial procurement and manage stakeholder needs specific to India.

- The role will manage spend categories, of a more strategic nature where required, creating, executing and managing sourcing strategies to meet business requirements.

- The role will support more complex strategy creation, execution and management at regional level, where required, under the supervision and direction of global and regional category leaders and managers.

- The role will perform any transactional and Procurement Operations related activities as required by the role.

DIMENSIONS OF THIS ROLE

- Develop long term sourcing strategies for strategic A&P categories like agencies, market research, ad production

- Interacting with global/regional teams on specific categories/projects handled.

- Providing support to other ISC countries

- Dealing with internal and external stakeholders across India and global teams which requires dealing with multitude of cultures and geographies

- Management of spend seeing high volatility with high double digit inflation in India

- Challenge of sourcing dynamics, highly competitive A&P categories, a critical challenge for successful delivery of sales targets

- Forecasting Accuracy and timely updation to business on impact of categories on brand profitability

- Delivery of cost savings to mitigate price inflation and generate savings

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

- Sourcing and managing vendor relationships with creative agencies, POSM, Ad production, market research, syndicated data, POSM and school contact program vendors

- Driving cost savings initiatives of commercial procurement in coordination with cross functional team to minimize impact of market inflation on Business and also support delivery of savings initiatives

- Manage, apply procurement sourcing strategies and create processes to ensure deliverables on time for all categories basis procurement involvement

- Meet the financial objectives of the business by ensuring procurement of all categories handled within budgeted/approved rates and contracting commercial services within budgeted rates.

- Develop linkages with external knowledge base to strengthen category intelligence, supplier development and create pipeline and improve delivery of procurement initiatives

- Driving Working Capital initiatives (Inventory and Payment terms) across entire assigned categories.

- Provide support to other ISC countries

Key Behavioral Competencies Required

- Drive relationship management within the team and suppliers to proactively prepare for future

- Strong communication and influencing skills are required to keep key stakeholders updated on savings initiatives

- Negotiation Skills

- Customer Driven

- Strives for continuous improvement

Experience/Knowledge/Technical Skills Required:

- MBA in Finance, Operations or experience in sourcing Indirect spends

- Demonstrated experience of Procurement and research/analytical based work experience.

- Experience of using IT systems.

- Experience of communicating with stakeholders and suppliers in a business environment

- Customer Relationship Management

- Identifying & influencing business requirements

- Category management

Interested candidates can send their resume @ sunit.alchemist@gmail.com / sunit.desai@alchemistindia.net

Please mention your years of exp and ctc in the mail.