Assistant Manager - Indirect Procurement - FMCG

Position - Assistant Manager - Indirect Procurement with a leading FMCG company

Location - Mumbai

Key Responsibilities :

- Mandatory Criteria - Experience in Indirect Procurement for Sales and Marketing

- Looking in Indirect spends of Sales and Marketing like events, road shows, Brand ambassador, Media, PR, Gifting etc.

- Looking for Experience in Sourcing & Negotiations for various categories/sub-categories related to Marketing and Sales spends, Indirect Materials i.e. specifically for Commercial Print, POP/P OS, Consumer Promotions, Brand Activations & Events, with basic understanding of Print/fabricated substrates.

- Developing good, quality-oriented & forward looking vendor base through continuous market, peer, stakeholder engagement and assessment

- Working on requirements by leveraging a robust varied vendor base, sourcing tools, data dashboards. Constant knowledge upgrade through attending external and internal workshops and forums.

- Proficiency is expected in managing Reverse Auction/eRFQ/eRFI to obtain desired business and savings outcome.

- Vendor Management

- Maintain a robust vendor base enabling constant benchmarking and backups

- Supplier segmentation to enhance strategic planning and CRM

- 7-step Sourcing

- e-tools like Reverse Auction/eRFQ/eRFI analytics and dashboards to assess past footprint and to make forward decisions

- End to end product / service delivery

- Manage timeline and GTM across cross functions and vendors diligently

- Real time troubleshooting and backup bridging if need be