Senior Manager - Fleet Procurement
PepsiCo
Date: 4 hours ago
City: Hyderabad, Telangana
Contract type: Full time
Overview
The role is to manage the Fleet procurement within Logistics & Distribution team for North America
The person must drive value on total Fleet procurement spend through category expertise, cross-functional collaboration, and relationship with internal/external stakeholders.
Responsibilities
Qualifications
5.0 Key Skills/Experience Required
The role is to manage the Fleet procurement within Logistics & Distribution team for North America
The person must drive value on total Fleet procurement spend through category expertise, cross-functional collaboration, and relationship with internal/external stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Data collection and detailed analyses to support local business stakeholders in driving procurement strategy
- Analyze current sourcing footprint, develop sourcing vision, and provide improvements
- Data collection on spend, and understanding spend insights
- Market intelligence of the category in related BU
- Design workshops with local and regional business stakeholders to align overall procurement objectives
- Identify trends and patterns in spend data to proactively propose cost-saving opportunities and risk mitigation
- Conduct deep-dive analyses into supply chain bottlenecks and risks, proposing long-term solutions
- Maintain and improve supplier performance scorecards based on procurement metrics and business impact
- Lead supplier selection process
- Tender design
- Analyses of RFX responses and shorten the list of suppliers.
- Organize / Facilitate supplier negotiations [Strategic decisions to be led/taken at BU level by BU associates]
- Consolidate scenarios to be defended on final review with internal partners
- Develop and execute advanced multi-scenario tender strategies to evaluate supplier risk vs. value
- Conduct supplier due diligence, focusing on sustainability, ESG compliance, and geopolitical risk factors
- Lead contracting
- Review current contracts
- Establish updated terms in line with RFX outcomes, support the negotiation of terms with internal partners and suppliers.
- Ongoing administration of compliance and tracking.
- Supplier information management
- Support sector colleagues in high-complexity, multi-market, or multi-year contracts, factoring in currency risks, inflation, and market volatility
- Proactively manage supplier relationships to ensure compliance with contractual obligations and drive continuous improvement
- Act as an escalation point for resolving contract disputes and ensure seamless supplier onboarding
- Managing cost control
- Feeding forecasts for annual operating plan and quarterly updates.
- Search for improvement opportunities, deliver productivity and cash improvement targets
- Drive cost modeling initiatives and set benchmarks for price adjustments based on market movements.
- Identify and lead cross-functional savings initiatives (e.g., supplier-led innovations or process efficiencies)
- Category Management
- Collaborate with category leads to develop and execute long-term category roadmaps aligned with business
- Innovation & Value Creation
- Conceptualize and implement initiatives that go beyond cost savings, such as supply chain resilience, supplier diversity, and carbon footprint reduction.
- Risk Management
- Develop contingency plans for critical suppliers to ensure supply chain continuity during disruptions.
- Lead comprehensive supplier risk assessments, including financial health, geopolitical risks, and business continuity plans.
Qualifications
5.0 Key Skills/Experience Required
- Engineering/MBA Degree
- 8-10 years of experience in GP Operations/Shared Services
- Strong background in procurement in FMCG categories.
- Good knowledge of logistics/Fleet landscape
- Good business acumen, knowledge of financial fundamentals, analytical and computer skills.
- Strong internal customer management skills. Capacity to listen understand internal client needs and deliver appropriate solutions
- Ability to perform in matrix organization.
- Languages: English (Written & Oral)
- Highly Collaborative: works well with others, including internal and external stakeholders to deliver results
- Inclusive: treats all people with respect and fairness, open to and respectful of others’ opinions and points of view
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