Assistant Vice President

About Us:

LL R.E.M.S (Listenlights Real Estate Management Services) builds on the strong legacy of Listenlightsone of Indias trusted names in the MEP industry with 40+ years of credibility and nationwide delivery.

Headquartered in Mumbai, we operate across Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, NCR, and Pune, ensuring consistent and reliable service wherever our clients grow.

With LL Groups legacy of 500+ successfully delivered projects, including 350+ MW of Data Center projects, LL REMS brings Real Estate Management Services expertise and proven operational capability. Our strength lies in our skilled professionals who ensure precision, safety, and seamless execution across every site.

What We Deliver:

LL REMS provides integrated Real Estate & Facility Management solutions across:

• Data Centers
• Commercial & Corporate Spaces
• Industrial & Logistics
• Government & Institutional Facilities

At LL REMS, we dont just deliver serviceswe build longterm partnerships grounded in performance, accountability, and value creation.

Experience the LL REMS difference your trusted partner in Integrated Real Estate & Facility Management Services.

Role Description:

The AVP Procurement (SCM) will build and lead a modern procurement organization from the ground up for a multi-site Facility & Asset Management business. The role combines greenfield function design, sustainable procurement strategy, and people leadership to deliver cost leadership, risk control, compliance, and service excellence across categoriesHard Services

(MEP/HVAC/Electrical/Fire/etc.), Soft Services (HK/Security/Waste/Horticulture/Events/etc.),

Utilities/Consumables/Chemicals, Projects/Refurbishments/Spares/Capex/etc.This leader sets the operating model, policies, digital tools, supplier ecosystem, and governance that make procurement an engine for value creation, ESG impact, and client satisfaction.

Key Responsibility Areas:

Build the Procurement Function :

• Define the Procurement Operating Model (POM): org structure, roles, RACI, buying channels, and category ownership.
• Establish policies, SOPs, and governance for end-to-end procurement: sourcing, contracting, ordering, receiving, payments, and audits.
• Implement digital enablement (ERP/e-tendering, e-RFx, contracts repository, supplier master, dashboards, approval workflows).
• Stand up controls for segregation of duties, compliance, threshold approvals, and audit-ready documentation.
• Create a category taxonomy and a standardized item master & catalogs for pan-India/site-level operations.

Sustainable Procurement & ESG :

• Launch a Sustainable Procurement Framework: supplier code of conduct, ethical sourcing, human rights and safety compliance, and anti-bribery standards.
• Integrate ESG criteria and evaluations (energy-efficient equipment, recyclable/low-VOC materials, green chemicals, waste minimization).
• Develop supplier sustainability scorecards, track Scope-3-linked impacts where relevant, and embed life-cycle costing (LCC) in capex decisions.
• Drive circular procurement initiatives (repair/refurbish/reuse programs, take-back schemes with OEMs).
• Publish annual sustainability metrics for procurement (e.g., % sustainable spend, green vendor penetration, carbon-aware logistics options)

Category Strategy, Sourcing & Commercial Excellence :

• Build category strategies with cost models, market intelligence, and demand forecasts aligned to maintenance plans and project pipelines.
• Lead e-sourcing (e-RFx/e-Auctions) and negotiate high-value contracts (AMC/CMC, manpower/service, MRO, capex, logistics).
• Consolidate vendors where beneficial while maintaining business continuity and regional coverage.
• Institutionalize TCO/LCC decisioning, should-cost models, and benchmarking for key categories.
• Ensure contract quality: SLA/KPI rigor, penalty/bonus mechanisms, risk and indemnity clauses, and clear SOW.

Supplier Ecosystem & Risk Governance :

• Build a tiered supplier ecosystem (OEMs, national partners, critical regional specialists) with empanelment, audits, and compliance screening.
• Establish supplier performance management (scorecards, QBRs, corrective actions, development plans).
• Set up supply risk registers (single-source, lead-time, capacity, financial, EHS/labour compliance) and mitigation plans.
• Implement rapid-response frameworks for outages, urgent repairs, and disaster recovery sourcing.

Team Building & Leadership :

• Hire, mentor, and develop a high-performing procurement team (category managers, buyers, analyst, vendor governance).
• Define competency models, capability roadmaps, and incentive structures tied to savings, service levels, and ESG outcomes.
• Build a partnering culture with Operations, Projects, Finance, EHS, Legal, and Sales/Bid teams; run stakeholder councils and SLAs

Process Excellence, Controls & Analytics :

• Drive cycle-time reduction, right-first-time POs, and on-time, in-full (OTIF) fulfillment metrics across sites.
• Deploy analytics dashboards for spend, savings, compliance, supplier risk, and sustainability metrics.
• Ensure statutory & policy compliance (labour, EHS, GST, data privacy), and maintain audit-ready records.
• Lead continuous improvement (Lean/Six Sigma), and manage change across the business

Must Have Requirements:

Qualification & Experience:

• Experience: 1218+ years in Procurement/SCM with at least 5 years in
• Facility & Asset Management, IFM, Infrastructure Services, or Technical
• Services environments; proven track record of function setup or large-scale transformation.
• Education: Bachelors in Engineering/Commerce/Business; MBA/PGDM in
• Supply Chain/Operations/Finance preferred.
• Certifications (preferred): CIPS/CPSM/CSCP, Lean/Six Sigma;
• ESG/Sustainable Procurement certifications are a plus.
• Tools: Hands-on with ERP/e-procurement (SAP/Oracle/Ariba/Coupa/Zoho or similar), e-RFx/e-Auction tools, and analytics dashboards (Power BI/Tableau).

Ensuring a Diverse and Inclusive workplace where we learn from each other is core to Listenlights's values - SOCH. Listenlights Pvt. Ltd. are Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employers. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Listenlights Pvt. Ltd. will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Listenlights Pvt. Ltd. .