Godrej Industries - Manager - Procurement - IIM/ISB/FMS/MDI

About Godrej Consumer Products

Godrej Consumer Products is a leading emerging markets company. As part of the 125-year young Godrej Group, we are fortunate to have a proud legacy built on the strong values of trust, integrity, and respect for others. At the same time, we are growing fast and have exciting, ambitious aspirations.

Today, our Group enjoys the patronage of 1.2 billion consumers globally, across different businesses. We rank among the largest Household Insecticide and Hair Care players in emerging markets. In Household Insecticides, we are the leader in India, the second largest player in Indonesia and are expanding our footprint in Africa. We are the leader in serving the Hair Care needs of women of African descent, the number one player in Hair Colour in India and Sub-Saharan Africa, and among the leading players in Latin America. We rank number two in Soaps in India and are the number one player in Air Fresheners and Wet Tissues in Indonesia.

But for us, it is very important that besides our strong financial performance and innovative, much loved products, we remain a good company. Approximately 23 per cent of the promoter holding in our Group is held in trusts that invest in the environment, health, and education. We are also bringing together our passion and purpose to make a difference through our 'Good &Green' approach to create a more inclusive and greener India.

At the heart of all of this, is our talented team. We take much pride in fostering an inspiring workplace, with an agile and high-performance culture. We are also deeply committed to recognising and valuing diversity across our teams.

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YOUR ROLE SUMMARY :

The incumbent would be responsible in ensuring the availability of approved material required for manufacturing finished goods at the factory.

ROLE SPECIFICATIONS :

- Procurement Process transformation using digitization using MRP and other tools.

- Redesign and benchmark process across Industry and GCPL Clusters

- Leading and creating best in class analytics

- Focus on procurement for Small and high growth business.

- Leading and partnering material planning for contract manufacturer and our own factories

- Manage Contract manufacturing for niche products and additional capacities

- Coordination with category managers for supply to alternate channels

- Senior stakeholder management and escalation management across multi-channels/businesses.

- Implementing necessary system and process at contract manufacturing location to ensure timely and quality deliveries.

- Interfacing with R&D and vendors to ensure availability of desired quality product.

- Maintaining minimal obsolete inventory and overall inventory levels at optimal levels.

- Ensuring all the compliance in generating PO so that the right price gets populated.

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE :

- MBA in Operations from Tier 1 institutes

- 2-3 years of supply chain experience, preferably in implantation of MRP and/or integrated business planning tool from procurement perspective. Experience in sourcing would be added advantage.

SKILLS REQUIRED :

- Knowledge of SAP R3 - MM module

- Analytical skills required for planning, risk analysis & backup options for project execution.

- Strong knack of problem solving and customer centricity

- Good negotiation skills, business orientation and ability to influence the cross functional project teams, business partners and stakeholders.

- Excellent in Microsoft Office (Project file, PowerPoint and Excel)

- Willing to travel at Mfg location & vendors.