Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages - National Manager - Indirect Procurement - Cold Drink Equipments

Lead and & manage Indirect procurement category for Cold Drink equipment's (CDE/Capex), G&A, Marketing elements, Hotels, Airline Service, Alternate Energy Initiative. Ensure smooth supply to various business units. As part of operations 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

1. Direction Setting:

- Leads & drives translation of Company objectives into Procurement objectives for the category 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 & objectives and develops & aligns plans for the category to enable their achievement.

- Develops plans and systems & processes to optimize the utilisation 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 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

3. Procurement 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 CEPG Procurement teams in order to leverage material spend.

- 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 SC 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.