Associate: Procurement Operations

About

STADA is a global organization focused on simplifying and digitizing its operations for unlocking growth and making its processes simple, standardized, and easy to work with. Procurement Operations plays a big part in ensuring deliveries are carried out on time without any disruptions to Supply Chain and Planning.

We want to transform the way procurement works with the business, making it seamless and user friendly.

STADA Procurement organization is on a journey to excellence, and procurement operations is the key function to bring life to our vision and deliver greater value to STADA and all its stakeholders.

Job Responsibilities:

• Purchase of finished medicinal products and their components from external supply partners according to operational specifications.
• Responsible for entire purchase to pay process in SAP.
• Tracking and coordinating deliveries of orders as per delivery dates in communication with Supply Planning.
• Act as the first contact point for the external service provider, and communicate independently with them in English.
• Provide regular updates to the ESO manager and report any escalations.
• Ensure that purchasing-related master data in SAP is up to date.
• Coordination and control of the external service provider for order management, including actions and decisions to correct deviations from the expected performance and improve performance.
• Take part in training courses on region-specific KPIs, STADA's SOPs and procurement processes and share this knowledge with the external service provider.
• Work closely with the areas of packaging, approvals, quality management, taking into account country-specific regulations and requirements.
• Interdisciplinary cooperation and coordination with other internal departments.
• Supplier visits, supplier evaluation based on predefined criteria.
• Creation or initiation of invoices and credit notes, invoice clarification from external supply partners
• Create various reports for management, e.g. out-of-stock situations, participation in projects that are purchasing-related as well as cross-departmental.

Preferred candidate profile:

Graduate/ Postgraduate (Preferably in Procurement or Supply Chain or Finance).

• 1 to 4 years of professional experience in operational purchasing in the pharmaceutical, chemical or FMCG industries.
• Experience in working with international business partners and business fluency in English.
• Knowledge of Purchase to Pay process and experience in handling purchasing activities in SAP ECC /S4Hana.
• High degree of initiative, ability to work in a team, commitment and cross-departmental thinking.
• Expertise in MS Excel and Powerpoint.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Job Location is Juinagar, Navi Mumbai.