Manager

Job Description : Strategic Sourcing & Purchase Process Control (91

Streets/Pharmeasy/Threpsi)

Purpose

He shall be responsible for deriving overall efficiency and effectiveness in the purchase

process. He shall work upon preventing margin leakages (L1, L2 and L3 Level), improving

Central Purchase Fill Rates, managing supplier relationships, managing vendor scorecards,

accounting for credit notes in the system, transferring of strategic items to all the cities. He

shall be responsible for Overall P2P Process (Purchase Order Creation to Vendor Payments).

He has to also coordinate with all the Purchase leads to derive all the cost

optimization/margin improvements as detailed above.

Roles and Responsibilities

 All aspects of Purchase Process – tracking margin leakage, improving central purchase

fill rates, supplier relationship management, credit note tracking

 Tracking Margin Leakages – such as L1 (basis on supplier terms), L2 (basis on best rate

available within the city) and L3 (basis on best rate available Pan India)

 Improving Central Purchase Fill Rates – target is to achieve more than 90% on Central

Purchase Bid Quantities/SKUs

 Supplier Relationship management – in terms of coordination with star suppliers and

Pharma Companies (with respect to raising PO’s and Data management)

 Vendor Scorecards – Creating Vendor Registration Modules and rationalizing key

vendors and then creating scorecards based on various serviceability metrices

 Coordinating with Technology Team in automating key modules that strives for

purchase process improvements (CP 2.0, Smart PO, Procurement Stock Transfer)

 Thorough understanding of supply chain process (procurement & Logistics)

 Ensuring accurate and timely preparation of daily, monthly, quarterly and yearly data

on purchase of medicines

 Ensuring effective working capital management for supplier payments (Credit period

management and timely payment of goods received)

 Collaborating with other purchase leads to support overall department goals and

objectives

 Monitoring and analyzing purchase department work to develop more efficient

procedures and use of resources while maintaining a high level of accuracy

 Working with the internal auditor to ensure a clean and timely internal audit and to

take inputs for further purchase process improvements

 Support Director of Sourcing & Supply Chain with special projects and workflow

process improvements