Key Responsibilities :

We are looking for a skilled and experienced Senior Manager Procurement to join our premium clients (Leading Healthcare Company)

Essential Job Functions

- Sourcing/Selecting qualified suppliers

- RFQ & Negotiation including negotiating best possible price, payment terms, and delivery schedules

- Purchase Order entry

- Supplier relationship management including prepayment, on-time delivery of orders and other transactions

- Monitor, report and manage supplier performance, ensuring the quality of good and level of service is maintained at the required standard

- Provide support and cover to the Supply Chain Administrator ensuring all their tasks are completed on a daily basis

- Measuring & Managing supplier performance (price, delivery, and quality)

- Identifying supplier risks

- Developing and leading new supply sources (Advanced Sourcing, Dual Sourcing) while supporting daily responsibilities

- Examining bids

- Interact with suppliers on a daily basis to resolve transactional issues and gather critical information invoices, tracking info, tax docs. etc.

- Responsible for appropriate supplier selection/bidding processes for selected purchase requests, and supplier and contract pricing validation for all purchase requests under category management responsibility.

- Responsible for managing projects to improve procurement processes.

- Responsible for supplier communication to resolve transactional issues.

- Responsible for resolving invoice price and terms discrepancies to enable order processing.

- Establishing accounts/terms

- Manage external service providers, ensuring all documents, imports and exports are correctly maintained, managed and categorized, in line with the finance departments requirements

- Interfacing positively with internal cross-functional organizations and suppliers

- Reporting to Operations to ensure supplying required component parts for production

- Complying with safety and corporate guidelines on business ethics

- Supporting other initiatives/activities as directed by senior management

- Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications & Personal Competencies:

- PGDMM /MBA with SCM Specialization Minimum of 8 to 10+ years of direct or indirect procurement experience

- Significant relevant procurement and sourcing experience.

- Proven track record in project management and delivery, and of working to deadlines and meeting targets.

- Knowledge of leading practices in procurement and strategic sourcing as well as operational models for shared services programs

- Excellent knowledge of end-to-end supply management processes including competitive bidding, contract management, supplier performance management, and life-cycle costing processes.

- Strong interpersonal, presentation, communication, conflict resolution, and stakeholder relationship management skills to engage others, build consensus and resolve issues

- Able to manage a high volume of work in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities and deadlines

- Successful working relationships both external and internal to the office environment

- You must be confident in discussions at different hierarchical levels and the ability to manage projects.

- Excellent communication skills, with experience of influencing stakeholders and establishing strong partnerships.

- Self-motivated, proactive and accountable team player.

- Able to learn quickly the technical aspects of various products.

- Fantastic organizational skills.

- Willingness to travel and work mainly outside visiting customers and inside as the job requires.

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