Senior Manager - Commercials - Education

Specific Skills - 

- Knowledge in procurement function & business operations, Logical thinking, Interpersonal skills, Ability to prioritize, Negotiation skills, Planning, Organizing, Attention to details

- At least any two areas of the following: Strategic Sourcing, Procurement, E-Procurement & E Commerce

- Knowledge on process automation is mandatory.

Key Responsibilities - 

- To understand the annual budget & plans of the institute, the requirements of various user departments and deliver on the purchase requisitions in a timely and cost-effective manner

- To understand and manage customer expectations through well-defined SLAs, policies and procedures

- To perform required people responsibilities such as inspiring and motivating high standards of customer-service orientation, enabling adherence to standard operating procedures (SOPs), bringing in quality consciousness & cost-effectiveness and other administrative responsibilities

- To build a robust list of reliable and approved vendors for every kind of material or service required by the institute

- To constantly strive towards cost-effectiveness by looking out for alternative materials & services, innovative commercial structuring of transactions, alternative vendors and ensure delivery of quality goods and services for the business operations

- Maintain a professional, fair and trustworthy relationship with vendors and ensure they are acknowledged for good performance and rewarded with repeat orders

- Efficiency of high-level interaction with user Departments across the School and procurement planning

- Clear and agreed SLAs with customers

- Report on performance against SLAs

- Ensure full implementation of and compliance with SoPs

- Internal Audit & special Audits

- SAP Steering Committee decisions and other studies / audits

- Preparation of list of policy inadequacies / bottlenecks, and clearance

- Process automation

- Develop a robust master list of approved vendors

- Ability to identify vendors quickly for any requirement of the institute

- Improving the vendor base & vendor relationships

- Well-documented cost-effectiveness programme, and monitoring actuals against plan

- Well-developed costing templates to determine / evaluate fair price for various materials and services to be procured by the institute