Purchase Head - Corporate - Process Manufacturing

Industry : Process Manufacturing

Role : Purchase - Head

Experience required: Should have purchased raw materials/capital goods at a corporate level.

Required: MBA + Bachelor with experience of 10+ years in procurement/supply chain/purchase at the CORPORATE level. PLANT LEVEL experience will not be considered. Should have managed multiple business units.

Key Responsibilities :

- Plans, organizes, and controls strategic activities surrounding the acquisition of materials (raw materials).

- Implements Supply Chain Management strategy to achieve lowest total costs, continuous quality improvement, delivery, and cycle time performance improvement and early supplier involvement in new vendor development / vendors for new products.

- Develop supply partners, drives results & improvement, develop X SBU strategy & implementation plans, improve commercial terms & conditions

- Through the analysis of current spend, processes and practices, develop an overall sourcing strategy that supports the goals including new product introduction, supplier consolidation, cycle time reduction, process standardization, material cost reduction, transaction cost removal, and process digitization that meets the annual operating plan .

- Negotiate with all suppliers on back to back terms. Ensure payment terms (of more than 90 days) which will help cash flow to be better.

- Develop alternate supplier. Monitor the on-time and complete performance of suppliers

- Deliver Cycle time improvements. Ensure inventories are minimized.

- Revision in processes / formats to suit current situations / expectations of BU's and other internal customers.

- Ensure 100% strict compliance on purchase processes, systems, formats in line with sourcing manual as per quality policy and develop SOP for procurement and SLA for the SBU's.

- Discussion with internal, external audit teams during audit and review along with Sr. Management for better regulation of the practices followed in the dept.

- Oversee the purchasing for products required based on inputs by the users.

- Manage various vendors by maintaining good relationships to produce the service level requirement to support supply chain requirements

- Monitor pricing trends of various materials & commodities and take actions to minimize negative impacts.