Roles and Responsibilities
Job Specification: Industrial Purchase
Position : Head Industrial Purchase to be based at Mumbai
Job Objectives:
Lead and & manage Industrial purchase category for Capex, Opex, MRO, Civil works, Electrical works, Alternate Energy Initiative, Fuels, Chemicals, other Service contracts etc. . Ensure smooth supply to various business units. As part of strategic procurement lead Innovations & support business by continuously improving product / services. Meeting and exceeding budgeted cost savings in all spends in this category, by providing overall thrust and direction to team effort to meet the objectives & needs of the business.
Apply Procurement skills that meet customer requirements and manage relationship with supplier partner in sync with company’s requirement deliver innovation, added value & savings for the business. Co-ordination (Business Partnering) with the entity GM & team to manage with the internal purchase team – raw material, packaging material & plant procurement is required.
Job Responsibilities:
1.Direction Setting:
- Leads & drives translation of Company objectives into Purchase objectives for the category & Co-ordination (Business Partnering) with respective entity team / stakeholder in order to ensure that sourcing group tasks & aims are articulated, understood & accepted by the team and the business.
- Understands & interprets the overall business direction with Department Head & GM’s objectives, develops & aligns plans for the category to enable their achievement.
- Develops plans and systems, processes to optimize the utilization of resources for the category in order to successfully achieve business objectives.
2. Business Planning:
- Develops & communicates (to team members) short & long term plans that are comprehensive, realistic & effective in order to support all Procurement activities.
- Constructs & uses budgets to manage & monitor spends for the industrial category and ensures that adjustment processes are in place for over/under achievement.
- Commits to and delivers savings/added value in line with department/business targets v/s DA/RFA’s & investment plans.
3. Purchase Practices:
- Applies defined processes; be a part of cross functional teams to develop long term strategic source plans for spend categories.
- Collaborates with plants and Global Purchase teams in order to leverage Industrial spend & Category Management.
- Ensures thorough analysis of supply markets relative to category of expenditure in order to logically substantiate the evaluation of sourcing group & supplier management strategies.
- Review Key Performance Parameters with Stakeholder team.
4. Supplier Relationship Management
- Manage relationships and ways of working with key suppliers in order to align understanding & commitment with customer expectations
- Applies the right supplier relationship spectrum viz., Leverage, Preferred, Partnership or Strategic Alliance in order to satisfy business needs.
5. People:
- Develops team & talent with diverse capabilities in order to deliver objectives that are in line with requirements of the business.
- Ensures that functional communication processes are in place in order to encourage the creation of an atmosphere that fosters seamless & timely flow of information and provides open access to information.
6. Systems & Processes:
- Identifies implements & continuously improves systems & processes in line with the changing environment – SAP.
- Demonstrates & performs in accordance with sound business ethics, purchasing & supply standards, policies & procedures to give India the highest possible perceived integrity in all supplier relationships.
Qualification & Experience:
BE / B Tech & Post Graduate qualification in management/ General / Materials Management from a reputed institute / university.
Minimum 12-15 years of relevant post qualification experience with at least 3-4 years at a middle/senior management level in the Industrial/Direct/Indirect Procurement function in a similar industry, where he/she should have demonstrated strong commercial acumen.