Manager - Procurement & Vendor Management - Education

Job Description

Team Operations

Role Procurement and Vendor Management Reporting to Head, Operations

Location(s) Hyderabad/Bangalore CTC Range 10L-12L

Sound lofty & abstract-

We- re already delivering on that promise to 100,000 children this year & are on our way to working with 5 times that number next year. In fact we recently got funded.

About the team.

The operations team is the race winner. The team ensures the everything reaches a student at door step and on time.The team handles the wide canvas building systems of centralized bulk printing operations worth 50Cr to decentralized and franchised last mile operations.

About the role

As a procurement and vendor manager, you would be

1. Creating a pool of vendors and eliminating cash transactions from the system.

2. Building a robust vendor network across the state for last mile delivery and on-demand printing

3. Negotiating with the vendors and making data driven financial decisions

4. Monitoring and reviewing the performance of the vendors.

What we offer

1. Working with extremely smart, dedicated people

2. An environment that's fast paced, entrepreneurial & appreciates self-initiative

3. An audacious vision to change how learning is experienced

Goals

1. Build a distribution system that reaches the remotest location for an entire state

2. Eliminate cash transactions from the system

3. Build trustworthy channels of delivery from customer point of view

4. Build on-time delivery system from vendor to PI, PI to customer

Requirements

Education Requirements

1. Graduation from a premium college

No. of years of Experience

1. 4yrs to 6 yrs of experience in operations

Relevant Experience

1. Should have handled operations over 10Cr

2. Experience in vendor management

3. Hands-on experience of building and implementing systems

Preferable Industry

1. Should have worked in FMCG sector in the production plant

Skills Soft Skills Desirable Attributes

1. Business process analysis.

2. Problem Solving.

3. Advanced Excel skills.

4. Analytical skills

5. Data driven approach for solving problems

1. Good communication skills

2. Negotiation skills

3. Relationship building skills

1. Data analysis - detail explanation of the data given.

2. Knowledge of what levers can change the dynamics of last mile operations