Category Head - Procurement - FMCG

Category Head - Procurement

Organisation- We are building online Beauty Destination for Bharat, through trusted neighborhood micro-preneurs. We are on a mission to onboard 300 Mn+ offline users from Tier2/+ cities and towns in India onto online shopping and enable them to experience the power of Digital Democratized commerce.

Procurement Category Manager/Head Location: Bangalore

Role Overview:

We are looking for a Procurement Manager/Head to manage and negotiate with brands at the national level. As a manager, you'll be responsible for driving the category strategy through the procurement team.

Job Responsibilities:

- Implement category or commodity strategies to optimize business efficiency.

- Execute elements of the overall operations category strategy to ensure service delivery improvements.

- Perform category management including strategic sourcing, supplier relationship management, contract, performance and risk management.

- Provide assistance to company's acquisition strategies by completing the due diligence and integration activities for the spend categories. End-to-end Partner Relationship Management.

- Work with Category Managers in understanding the spend and identifying opportunities to increase quality and improve value for money.

- Perform procurement reporting and analysis of management information to identify potential improvement opportunities.

- Identify innovative procurement solutions that provide cashable savings and process efficiencies for the organization.

- Address vendor issues to ensure the highest level of service delivery. -Maintain contractual and business relationships with vendors.

- Facilitate implementation of procurement change initiatives within category to improve business performance.

- Develop best procurement practices to lead and manage procurement teams.

- Develop and maintain expert knowledge of respective supply markets, competitors and product innovations.

- Build strong relationship with customers and ensure customer satisfaction. -Plan and execute effective negotiation processes with vendors.

Requirements:

- 6+ years experience into Procurement Category Management.

- Excellent negotiation, communication and supplier management skills

- Possessing technical competence, a high level of commercial awareness and able to translate strategy into action

- Drive to work in a startup

- Impart knowledge on relevant spend categories

- Facilitate conflict resolution and take ownership for business case accountability and overall implementation for project for spend categories in scope