Senior Manager - Procurement (FMCG Background Only)

Role & responsibilities

• Management of ongoing purchasing strategy and activity and for ensuring optimal supplier performance and price.
• An expert at RM and PM procurement and will be able to help us with all KVI sourcing like Potato, Plam Oil, Laminate etc.
• Ensuring the function is operating in line with the objectives of the business to add value, mitigate supply chain risk, and cost savings.
• Evaluate the challenges faced in procurement and take action to mitigate risk and develop.
• Contribution to overall business strategy and annual budget process.
• Taking ownership of purchasing policy guidelines and any associated documents
• Managing relationship and negotiating with key suppliers
• Negotiating contract terms with key suppliers to ensure value for money, quality standards, delivery terms etc.
• Crafting negotiation strategies and close deal with optimal terms.
• Forecast price and market trends to identify changes of balance in buyer-supplier power.
• Identifying and partnering with reliable vendors & suppliers in order to develop an overall vender base which creates and sustains a competitive advantage utilizing global market exploitation, leveraging spends and technologies.
• Ensuring professional and consistent supplier management is applied across the supply base in line with the purchasing policy
• Providing Leadership, Coaching, mentoring, and developing direct reports and managing a high performing team of procurement managers and executives, that delivers continue improvement, add value and cost reduction.
• Ensuring strong communication with team to facilitate exchange of information in order to implement change and improvements
• Providing leadership, coordination and coaching to the team end enabling them to achieve their goal.
• Providing inputs and holding for purchasing and cost estimating budgets

Preferred candidate profile

• Profitability and growth
• FMCG background candidates
• Provide good range of products
• Provide competitive advantage
• Presenting MIS and other reports
• Budget 10L -12L
• Any Graduate
• Age below 45 Yrs.