Procurement Manager (for Vareli location on Randstad Payroll)

Job Role : Procurement Manager

Location : Surat (Vareli)

No. of positions : 2

Work Experience : 5-10 years functional experience in Sourcing, Procurement, Inventory

Management in a Manufacturing Organization

Salary Range : 6- 10 LPA

Education Requirements: Graduate Engineer

Payroll - Randsatd (One year contract and extendable)

Key Responsibilities:

• Sourcing and Buying of Engineering spares and M&R requirements for various Site

functions, including Mechanical, Utilities, Safety, Production, Administration,

Logistics Departments.

• Securing highly efficient Commercial deals for the Organization in respective spend

areas, with respect to prices, payment terms, guarantees/ warranties, sales &

service support and from a total cost of Ownership perspective contributing to

overall operating cost efficiencies.

• Build, maintain and expand a comprehensive database and catalogue of goods and

services used in Plant operation.

• Ownership of the entire Procure-to-pay process with effective interfacing with the

Finance-AP team to ensure payments term adherence.

• Ensure efficiency of the Ordering with minimum turnaround time from PR to

material Delivery/ service related deployments.

• Effective Inventory level monitoring through timely replenishment and avoiding

over-inventorization in an extremely dynamic business environment. Timely actions

for liquidation of slow-moving and obsolete inventories to minimize risks of

provisions and write-off.

• End-to-end Contract Lifecycle Management for effective deployment and drawal of

various types of services for the Plant requirements.

• Effective interface with Internal Customers and External providers to ensure On-

Time & In-Full at competitive costs.

• Managing Supply Chain risks due to external variabilities, volatile market

conditions, internal changes and adjustments and regulatory changes impacting

operations and processes and initiating proactive countermeasures to ensure

supply chain continuity for assigned spend categories.

• Effectively build and communicate governance metrics to establish efficiency and

effectiveness of buying process to Management periodically, and provide

justifications for variances against determined targets/ budgets.

Personality Trait & Work Requirements:

• Excellent Negotiation Skills and knowledge of advance negotiation techniques.
• Excellent Analytical Skills to evaluate comparative competitiveness of Offers and

proposals with multiple variables influencing outcomes. High degree of proficiency in

Procurement analytics and data visualization to help Management drive decisions

based on data and market information. Should have very good knowledge of

Advance MS Excel and MS Powerpoint.

• Understanding the technicalities of Key Engineering requirements and ability to

communicate requirements for external providers and carry out basic level of vetting

of offers and proposals from a techno-commercial perspective.

• Good knowledge of external supply markets, key influencers, operating

methodologies, industry practices, applicable regulatory frameworks.

• Very good oral and written communication & presentation skills and ability to relate

and communicate at all levels in the Organization and with the external world.

• Good knowledge of Import Process, Custom clearance, INCOTERMS, and

International Payment mechanisms.

Preferred prior experience in in SAP Hana MM Module