Manager - Purchase - Dairy/FMCG

Leading FMCG firm is looking for a Manager Purchase - Dairy based in Mumbai. This position reports to GM - Purchase.

Key Responsibilities:

- Work out procurement plan based on the sales forecast.

- Review of purchase status on a weekly basis from all the plants as well as company owned co-packers and alert on any surprises or variations

- Exploring various possibilities on saving potential, to move in market place to find the landed prices, especially for ingredients mentioned above.

- Consolidating tender prices on regular basis and have tap on tender release dates

- Prepare the purchase order, inform accounts for execution of RTGS and other formalities.

- Negotiation for discounts on material & monitoring the market to set the primary & secondary rates

- Ensuring the integrity of the Material Manual and updating changes if any

- Quarterly review of the rates across the country for any variations

- Working out the basis of cost and getting into value engineering for having a better hold on negotiations

- Meeting vendors and developing new and better vendors while retaining the vendors that have already been developed

- Final negotiations with all the vendors to work out the best possible rates.

- Streamlining SAP and ensuring its smooth functioning

- Ensuring minimum variance of Material, Chemicals & Consumables at all the locations

- Centralized negotiation of rates for purchase of materials, scrap rates etc.