Head - Purchase - Pharma

We are currently looking for Head Purchase with a leading supplier of nutritional ingredients to healthcare, food and personal care industries for Mumbai location.

Looking for candidates from Pharma industry having experience of minimum 12 yrs in purchase / procurement

Job Role :

- Responsible for Strategic Sourcing and Purchasing of Commercial Raw Material and Packaging Material, Project and Capex Purchases,Lab Equipment and Lab Chemicals Purchase, R&D Purchase, Consumables and Engineering, Contracts and Services

- Responsible for all commercial contracts and agreements, including third party operations related to ingredient manufacture.

- Responsible for Vendor development, Vendor Audit, and Ongoing Vendor Management, meeting Quality, Food Safety, and other regulatory requirement of industry.

- Strategic Contracting of all categories of purchases with overall understanding of material, quality requirement and vendors.

- Market intelligence on material pricing, movement and trends.

- Competitive and Industry Benchmarking.

- Support R&D / Marketing on New product Developments in terms of existing / new material.

- Proactively Manage Risk, hedging exchange risks as appropriate through timing purchases and contracts.

- Work closely with Finance,deploy resources efficiently, managing cash flow and seasonality of procurement .

- Responsible for enlisting vendors, dealers and traders to purchase excess material generated in Operations from time to time.

- Work closely with Operations, R & D and QA team to strike appropriate balance (availability, quality, yields) between material cost and overall product costing.

- Responsible for improving and optimising existing packaging material, developing new packaging material.

- Ensure that purchasing documentation is kept upto date, including at the time of Regulatory and Customer Audits.

Sonal Raut