Assistant General Manager/General Manager - Procurement - Consumer Electrical Appliances Firm

Client domain - consumer electrical appliances

AGM / General Manager - Procurement

Position Reports into - Strategic Procurement Head

Location - Gurugram

Role - 1

Cost Management & Cost Negotiations with UIL RM Suppliers for commodities &Tier-2 components. It requires Commodity negotiations with RM suppliers- Steel, Aluminium, Copper, Plastics, Rubber, Packaging, Electronics, Electricals, Other commodities.

Significance of this role is to:

- To drive strategic rationalization of RM supplier base of UIL keeping in mind UIL's long term growth aspirations to be met.

- To run cost negotiations/cost improvement programs for these RM suppliers to achieve competitive cost advantage

- To lead discussions with the RM suppliers for long term investments in their factories to have an advantage on technology, cost & speed to market.

- To drive component cost & technology improvements for RM inhouse components.

- To align overall RM supplier strategy as per business requirement of different businesses. To align strategy with the respective business

Job Dimensions :

Key Areas of Responsibilities:

- RM supplier strategic long term plan with UIL

- To provide strategic support for regular tier-2 supplier issues faced by other teams

- Raw Material cost sheet management

Skills and Knowledge :

- Must be an engineer in Electrical / Mechanical streams with a min experience of 15-20 years in the manufacturing industry predominantly in a negotiation role, preferably RM negotiations.

- Candidates trained with exposure on supplier negotiation programs will be preferred.

- Must have excellent program management skill and hands-on experience of managing multiple sakeholders of conflicting interests

- Proven skills of detailing out micro activities of Cost Management.

- Must have deep knowledge of relevant manufacturing technologies of RM Suppliers.

- Ability to communicate with all levels and having strong problem solving skills.

- Exposure in areas such as product development, VA/VE, alternate source development, supplier development etc.

Role - 2

End to end Cost Management & Cost Negotiations with UIL OEM/ODM Suppliers. It requires product value addition negotiation, process cost negotiation, strategic OEM/ODM Supplier account management, overall UIL responsibility of OEM/ODM suppliers.

Significance of this role is to:

- To drive strategic rationalization of OEM/ODM supplier base of UIL keeping in mind UIL's long term growth aspirations to be met.

- To run cost negotiations/cost improvement programs for these OEM/ODM suppliers to achieve competitive cost advantage

- To lead discussions with the OEM/ODM suppliers for long term investments in their factories to have advantage on technology, cost & speed to market.

- To drive component cost & technology improvements for OEM/ODM inhouse components.

- To align overall OEM/ODM supplier strategy as per business requirement of different businesses.

To align strategy with the respective business

Job Dimensions :