One of our leading client into Beverage & Dairy product category, looking for a good leader for the position of Head Procurement (GM Level) who have end to end experience in purchase of RM, PM, consumable, spare and indirect material. As it is corporate role will lead a spends of 1000 cr. TO 1400 Cr.. reporting to Head Supply chain. Team size at corporate - 6 -7 Managers for different category as well as Complete purchase team at Plant site - around - 100+ direct indirect

Sharing the role & responsibility as below :

Generate budget for Procurement:

- Centralize the purchase functions wherever possible, to gain an upper hand on negotiation thereby better discounts

- Ensure proper system of reviewing stock, maintaining minimum inventory levels, monitoring reordering levels at all manufacturing locations

- Manage assured & uninterrupted supplies of Raw Material like fruit pulp, raw milk, sugar, resin, ingredients;

- Packing Material like laminates, straw; cartons, tapes, labels, glue, caps etc; chemicals and consumables, promotional materials.

- Ensure that Procurement plans & schedules are correctly derived from the Sales forecast & BOM

- Keeping total vigilance on the market for exploring the right time of buying, spot purchases & maximum procurement at the most beneficial price

- Plan strategy for negotiation based on various parameters viz. value engineering, international trend, demand supply, cross currency equations, etc

- Aim at significant reduction in procurement price through effective negotiations, market intelligence, reverse auctions, etc

- Exploring new ideas and concepts for cost saving by means of outsourcing, optimized packing, reducing freight cost, etc

- Vendor development in domestic & international market, which includes selecting the right vendor, quality establishment, finalizing all the commercial terms & conditions & contracting for long term, either with a fixed or variable price, after working out the market dynamics & benefits

- Review agreements / MOU's & suggest amendments aimed at long term benefits

- Design reporting models to the management on Purchase performance, cost savings, purchase standardization across sites & overall performance vis-a-vis budgeted on a monthly, quarterly & yearly basis

- Ensure that the manuals are updated & upgraded for information's

- Streamlining SAP and ensuring its smooth functioning

- Ensuring best rates for disposal of scrap for enhancing the byproduct credit

Experience & skill required :

- He should have 18 - 24 years experience in procurement of RM PM in FMCG/ Food/ Beverage / Dairy / Liquor/ Breweries industry (Raw Material like fruit pulp, raw milk, sugar, resin, ingredients), (Packing Material like laminates, straw; cartons, tapes, labels, glue, caps etc;)

- He should have excellent communication, Negotiation skill, knowledge of Current Market Updates about required products, Distribution Management, SAP, Procurement in Food/Fruit/ Beverage/Dairy categories, Vendor Development

Location : Mumbai,

Note: Please do not share the cv if you do not have experience in procurement/purchase of given category like RM PM Consumables and promotions material.

Feel free to call me for any clarification

Pankaj Pandey
9212570411