Lead - Procurement - DCTL - Nandesari

Role: Lead Procurement

Role Objective: To lead the procurement of materials.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage entire procurement for plant.
• Procurement of capex items, all type of MRO items.
• Buying of raw material, lab chemical & packaging items procurement.
• Responsible for entire P2P process for the site.
• Handling of store activities.
• Should be able to handle technical buying.
• Focus on cost-effective sourcing, Imports.
• Vendor development and inventory management.
• Sound knowledge of business processes and projects related to purchase of chemicals/ engineering items.
• All types of service contracts.
• Knowledge of SOPs and IMS.
• Monitoring and handling of team.
• Supplier relation management.

Performance Evaluation (KRA/KPIs):

• Price per Kg of raw material.
• Bottom line Improvement Year-on-Year.
• PR to PO turnaround time (no of days)
• OTIF (On time in full)

Interaction:

• Internal: Procurement (Decision on Pricing, Purchase Decision), Logistics, Stores (Inventory control, Dispatches, billing management).
• External: Vendors, Transporters and service contractors.

Experience: 10-12 years

Qualification: BE in any stream, or graduate with MBA - Material Management.

Required Exposure: Warehouse, Vendor Management, Vendor assessments.

Desired Exposure: Procurement, Logistics, Inventory, commercials, IATF, Audits of ISO.

Skills & Competencies:

• Analytical approach, and excellent planning skills.
• Procurement lead time, Total transport cost as % of delivered sales.
• Import data analysis, Procurement & pricing index strategy.
• Contract procurement, contracts for inbound Logistics.
• Cost of Material per Kg, Cost of raw material Year-on-Year as KPI.
• Vendor contracts review and management, Legal & liaison activities as required.
• Cost-saving proposals.
• Communication skills, negotiation skills, interpersonal skills, project management skills, cross-functional collaboration capabilities.
• Should be experienced with ISO, IATF audits and SOPs and other vendor audit processes.

Knowledge:

• Proficient with SAP, Tally, tech savvy, audits, product knowledge (chemical industry), MS Office.