Manager - Procurement - Manufacturing

- Keeping abreast with latest market trends, technological changes and other external factors that determine the procurement & planning strategies

- Generating insights based on external data on price & supply trends to support procurement decisions

- Reviewing cost elements like geography of supply, MOQ and lead times to reduce overall cost of ownership

- Ensuring procurement cost is lower than or equal to market through market insights (ICIS) like value chain analysis, cost break up module and other external statistics

- Reviewing Vendor Payment Terms on a periodic basis

- Identifying root cause for stock outs and preparing action plan to counter the same

- Managing responsiveness to variability in demand

- Reviewing and monitoring inventory in accordance with defined inventory norms

- Ensuring reduction of excess RM/PM through influencing Operations, R&D, divisions & disposal of stock

- Identification & Closure of Gaps/Violations particularly in SAP key transactions & processes

- Identifying, selecting & finalizing new vendors for new & existing products in order to get rate advantage, better quality or meet global shortage

- Sourcing vendors as per desired products requested by division through NPD process