Assistant Manager - Purchase

Role & responsibilities

• Design competent Purchasing strategies for the organization to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the function.
• Ensure compliance to ethics and values as defined by Centum and adherence to all statutory requirements.
• Monitor & minimize Excess & Obsolescence of parts
• Review Purchasing functions performance against the defined plan and take actions to ensure adherence to plan (KPI and strategic initiatives)
• Work closely with Program Management / Operations / Quality team to ensure suppliers are aligned to meet customer requirements.
• Identify risk in supplier base due to Supplier quality issues & work with Supplier Quality team for risk mitigation measures.
• Develop and maintain a progressive working relationship with Key stake holders. Both internal and external (Supplier, vendor, customer) to Centum.
• Work with Logistics team to optimize freight cost.
• Work with Program / Sales team to propose pro-active solutions to customer to meet their demand requirements.
• Drive CTB in line with the customer forecast / demand.
• Work closely with Material planning team to ensure materials requirements are aligned as per customer demand.
• Publish supplier rating metrics periodically to ensure that supplier performance is at its best.

Who You Are?

• Minimum of 9 years of experience in any manufacturing industry, preferably in EMS
• Should have hands on experience in working on ERP systems.
• Commercial Acumen
• Collaboration skills and driving Synergy.
• Business Acumen
• Communication skills
• Integrity
• Persistence and resilience
• Customer centricity
• Negotiation skills
• Decision making

Preferred candidate profile

• Graduate Engineering in any discipline
• Additional qualification such as Dip in Materials Management will be added advantage.