Manager - Indirect Procurement

Stakeholder Satisfaction & Relationship Management 
    Build strong business relationships with the plant management team.
    Define and track the indirect procurement performance dashboard for the plant.
    Sourcing Life cycle management and In-depth understanding of the sourcing  life cycle for Internal needs analysis, Market analysis, Supplier’s qualification and classification, Supplier’s consultation and selection, Supply Qualification, Negotiation and contractual relationship management and Supplier Performance Management.  
    Develop, maintain, and administer procurement policy allowing for cultural and regional differences with cross-functional coordination as needed. 
    Monitor Indirect Procurement policy compliance and provide strategies to increase compliance. 
    Develop, implement and manage all vendor relationships and services ensuring compliance to service level agreements. 
    Monitor and report activities to ensure fulfilling service levels and take mitigation actions in case of non-fulfilment of agreements
    Strive towards continuous Indirect Procurement strategy alignment with the business, vendor improvement, and management of key category relationships. 
    Knowledge of India markets and leverages Sourcing methodologies to drive the category. 
    Responsible for end to end management of assigned manufacturing plant, including category sourcing, projects in the pipeline, procurement process and policies and managing the spend and savings targets for the plant spend. 
    Accountable for all indirect procurement categories spend & savings targets and objectives for assigned plant. 
    Act as local Business Partner and be the voice of business stakeholder's needs & requirements by understanding and relay business needs and requirements.
    Facilitate to ensure balance between procurement strategies and operational realities to ensure the alignment of global procurement with the business strategies. 
    Provide outstanding services that meet stakeholders’ needs to achieve outstanding customer satisfaction 
    Continuously develop and maintain services and solutions to generate value for the business
    Cost reduction in manufacturing by developing alternate vendors, and introducing new products that are aligned with the manufacturing process.
    Supporting scrap management for the manufacturing plant. 
    Support issue resolutions

Continuous improvement & solutions generation 
 
    Drive standardization and automation to continuously improve processes to drive sustainable efficiency
    Identify and develop innovative opportunities 
    Develop and elevate standard in alignment with category management Support 

    Bachelor's or Master’s degree with relevant experience of a minimum 4+ years in manufacturing plant procurement. 
    Experienced in Procurement Negotiation
    Business Acumen 
    Project & Change Management
    Communication, Influence & Convincing Skills
    Business Relationship Management 
    Networking Management & Customer Orientation.
    Action & Solution driven