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18/03 Hiral Shah
Branch Manager at Pylon Management Consulting

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Manager - Procurement Advisory - Cost Reduction/Material Management (8-10 yrs)

Gurgaon/Gurugram Job Code: 676593

Description: Manager - Procurement Advisory

Role - 

- Identifying client business issues, determining client needs by supplementing the standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches.

- Analyzing and identifying disablers for achieving the desired procurement operations for the client.

- Developing and validating the recommendations for the client in the context of the business goals.

- Ability to lead small to medium value engagements or components of large, complex engagements.

- Expertise in end-to-end Procurement Process covering one or more of the following areas: supply planning, procurement planning, category management, procurement analytics, purchasing & expediting and P2P, Source-to-Pay.

- Ability to identify cost optimization opportunities in one or more areas covering purchasing category management, direct materials procurement, Engineered / Designed goods, indirect spends, contracts / services procurement & administration

- Should have specific category expertise in procurement, and have been involved / led value engineering /value addition projects for those categories

- Experience in usage of procurement / cost reduction tools & techniques such sourcing zero based budgeting, reverse auctions, VA/VE, LCC sourcing, would be an added advantage.

- Participate in the development and presentation of proposals for business development activities.

- Participate in client meetings for active collaboration and delivery of services. Be proactive and demonstrate assertiveness in communicating with client, exhibit excellent communication skills.

- Willing to travel and work on site 100% of the time with the clients, working in project teams at client locations.

Key Criteria: MBA + Engineering Degree in Mechanical / Electrical / Industrial Engineering

- Minimum 8 years of experience across Industry & Consulting.

- The individual should have managed the procurement function (direct or indirect) across any of the industry environments [industrial products, automobile, engineering, FMCG etc].

- Have specific expertise in techno-commercial expertise of sourcing direct materials / sourcing of indirect materials & services

- Should have knowledge of tools /levers / concepts like strategic sourcing, global sourcing, e-sourcing, make /buy evaluation, early vendor involvement etc.

- Knowledge of using e-sourcing tools like Ariba, Hubwoo (preferred)

- Having led procurement cost optimization/ procurement process optimization projects and preferably been a part of large scale procurement optimization initiatives.

- Knowledge of one or more direct material technologies like castings, forgings, sheet metal, proprietary or indirect categories like Consumables, Travel & Stay, IT Purchase, Manpower etc.

- Good knowledge of costing mechanism (Zero based, Activity based] and Total Cost of Ownership evaluation

- Certified professionals will be an added advantage

- Ability to work under pressure and remain composed.

- Excellent verbal and written communication, and presentation skills. 


- Strong organizational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills.

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Maternity and Paternity Benefits

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