Senior Manager - Supply Chain Management - International Business - Manufacturing

- Identification and development of new suppliers (both international and local) to support business requirement

- Understand business, demand and food safety requirements and its implications on sourcing and supplier base

- Understand and build category cost models with Cost benchmarking of ingredients in the respective international markets

- Commercial negotiations and contracting

- Manage inflation as per budgeted / targeted levels

- Closely work with planning and logistics team to ensure on time in full availability of material

- Coordinate with NPD / Marketing to ensure new product launches as per timelines at targeted costs

- Build strong relationship with suppliers for long term competitive advantage

- Identify value engineering initiatives for cost optimization

- Coordinating, planning and managing the requirements of commissaries, warehousing and logistics

- Estimate commissary production capacity and warehousing space requirement

- Identify and execute initiatives for commissary cost savings & productivity improvement, and service level improvement to stores

- Coordinate with India commissaries, suppliers and CHA to ensure timely execution of export shipments

- Support SAP (supply chain scope) implementation in the international markets

- Capability development of local execution teams and business partners for smooth commissary and logistics