Asst Procurement Manager

Job Overview

Location

Mumbai, Maharashtra

Job Type

Full Time

Date Posted

1 month ago

Additional Details

Job ID

26664

Job Views

112

Job Description

A Successful Procurement Professional Is Expected To Be

Must be a strong executor especially for resolving Service issues, driving Cost Savings and Value creation opportunities.

Act as an entrepreneur, treats business as his/her own, sets trends and is willing to guide, follow or get out of the way while working on operations role.

Strong communication skills with internal as well as external stakeholders

Exceptional execution is key to ensure ambitious ideas are progressed fast towards implementation

Outstanding in pushing ideas that are forward thinking and that contribute to creating sustained competitive advantage.

Able to understand the business urgency and able to push the agenda with different stakeholders to gather the inputs: R&D, Supply Chain, Suppliers, Finance teams etc.

Main Job Purpose

The main accountability of the role is to manage Operations of globally/locally bought materials, business stakeholders (brand teams, functional teams e.g. R&D, Supply Chain, Quality, MET), manage relationship with the India based suppliers, deliver towards Chemicals savings and in turn contribute to South Asia cost savings delivery. Directly responsible for managing Procurement Operations for HC materials.

Buying Better (Cost and Cash)

Guide Delivery of savings target across for the HC materials under the portfolio

Identify and execute cash opportunities, as per delivery targets

Contract Management with India/Global Suppliers

To support in delivering the Procurement Business Plans e.g. Supplier Park, Localization, Purple Carbon etc.

Market assessment and negotiations (wherever applicable)

Digitization

Support in delivering Digital payment (e-Invoicing/ Trade shift/ Dynamic Bill discounting) and GST compliance

Operational Excellence

Drive and deliver 100% service with Agility

Close monitoring of Supplier performance KPIs via MIS

Drive Payment On Time and relationship management

Sustainability

Key Accountabilities

The role requires deep knowledge of Procurement Operations and high level of business interaction, supplier relationships to drive value to the Unilever business and KPIs.

The role therefore needs a person who is strong in Operations, relationship management, problem solving, multitasker, focused on driving the business goals and KPIs/targets.

Consolidating / coordinating & driving key projects / pillars on behalf of the team…. Eg: Savings / Localisation / resilience / Quality / Compliance etc.

Leading the material operations for India which includes a high focus on cost, quality, and service.

Work with planning team to ensure that material forecast volumes are shared with the buyers in advance for their contract negotiations.

Ensuring contracts are entered in the system by buyers on time, contracts review before entering in iCAT, SOBs are updated and factories are communicated in time about price changes.

Seamless communication with factories and suppliers to ensure timely schedules are shared with suppliers and material reaches factories in time without any service issues.

Understanding plan changes/ materials under stress by attending scheduled CMRP calls to ensure alternate options are triggered in time to ensure timely material connectivity.

Regular review with suppliers on their performance: service and quality and giving them timely feedback for corrections.

Regular SOB compliance review with factories to ensure minimal variation in the actually delivered qualities versus allocations for key material and vendors.

Ensuring inventory for materials remain under control (as per the aligned targets) through a regular review with factories.

Ensuring a regular review of quality incidents and giving regular feedback to vendors to improve their quality.

Developing strategic relationship with key business partners like factories, planning, SUIT, suppliers etc.

Supplier relationships management to drive value to the Unilever business and KPIs.

Summarizing the output of the full procurement cycle for HC with a summary at portfolio level for senior stakeholders’ review.

Challenges

Establishing effective relationships with the internal customers, Procurement Managers, R&D, SUIT, Finance, Quality and other stakeholders) as well as external partners (Suppliers) is key to the delivery.

This role would require coordination with different raw material buyers and other stakeholders: Working across organizational and cultural boundaries independently without direct hierarchical control of resources.

Candidate should be at minimum a science graduate with 5+ years of experience in Procurement/ Procurement Operations/Supply Chain Planning/Operations preferably within FMCG

University degree and Supply Chain exposure is preferred

Skills / Competencies

Ability to work in a hugely diverse, cross cultural business environment

Strong stakeholder management skills

Self-reliant with the ability to work independently

Problem solving skills to analyse the situation & take decisions to support the business needs.

Must be a self-starter with strong Bias for Action, Accountability & responsibility and Growth Mindset

Must be a strong executor especially for resolving Service issues, driving Cost Savings and Value creation opportunities.

Influencing others and holding them accountable for their actions.

Attention to details is key for this role.

Relationship management both external and internal

Must be good in communications – as interaction is at the heart of this role.

Qualification

Any Graduate

Experience Requirements

Fresher Experience

Location

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