Procurement Manager

Responsibility in negotiating, raw material & packing material rates with suppliers while ensuring company targets are being met.

Responsibility in delivering company financial targets with regards to Purchase Price Variance (PPV), Working Capital (NWC) & Cost Savings of projects.

• Co-ordinate with Safety, Quality & Compliance (SQC) team to ensure that Contract manufacturers and suppliers are compliant with SQC regulations

• Jointly conduct Quality audit of suppliers to ensure compliance to Quality specs

• Supplier profiling, screening & selecting supplier as per specification, less lead-time, reliability and through creating competitive situation (evaluating Vendor Scorecard)

• New vendor development jointly with internal stakeholders, Vendor Scorecard development for RM/PM

• Delivering company financial targets with regards to PPV, Working Capital (NWC) & Cost Savings of projects.

• Negotiate with Suppliers and Contract manufacturer stake holders to ensure that ther portfolio receives proper priority in production and supply schedules.

• Co-ordinate with suppliers for supply of RM & PM, Co-packers for supply

• Follow up with Finance on outstanding payments of suppliers.

• Preparation of SLAs along with regional legal team & other stakeholders, Contract/ Agreement signed with Major RM/PM Suppliers with help of legal team

• Raising Online Approvals in System for RM, PM (Ariba / MyContract) and initiate e Procurement sourcing. Anaplan Submissions for RM/PM

• Involve in Capex related procurement

• Forecasting rate for RM/PM (Quarterly and yearly Procurement plan for RM/PM)

• Harmonization of PM in the region (e.g. mold developments)

• Drive cost saving Projects

• Benchmarking RM, PM and identify & proactively eliminate mono sourced RM & PM

Qualifications

Minimum 3 years FMCG experience in Supply Chain / Procurement are preferred.

Engineering degree with commercial background/ Commerce back ground with sound knowledge of cost management with sound business knowledge

Personal Attributes :

• Results oriented, entrepreneurial and self-motivating
• Tenacious and resilient, driven to achieve even when faced with obstacles
• Leadership and interpersonal skills capable of building strong working relationships and influencing external and internal stakeholders
• Strong commercial understanding of business issues/opportunities
• Strong understanding of product costing and negotiation technique
• Strong analytical skills with ability to develop strategies, tactics and measurable implementation and advance excel skills to formulate various report
• Ability to think outside the box
•  Fluency in English is essential. Fluency in other languages(s) is advantageous