Supply Chain Specialist

You will be responsible for end-to-end sourcing and procurement of raw materials such as oils, excipients, processing aids, and plant extracts to ensure timely availability of materials for uninterrupted production. Your role is critical in ensuring supply reliability, cost optimization, and alignment with production schedules and business goals. Your key accountabilities will include sourcing raw materials from approved and reliable suppliers, onboarding new suppliers to drive cost benefits and enhance sustainability, leading commercial negotiations to achieve cost-saving targets while ensuring quality and service levels, and collaborating with various teams to align material planning with demand forecasts. You will also be responsible for supporting in preparing the annual material budget, developing and maintaining procurement and sourcing plans, coordinating with the R&D team for new product development, liaising with the logistics team for timely material shipments, monitoring supplier performance metrics, tracking market price changes, managing procurement documentation, and updating procurement systems. To be successful in this role, you should have an MBA with specialization in Supply Chain Management preferred, 1-2 years of experience, and possess skills and competencies such as negotiation skills, delivering consistent results, supplier management, and vendor management.,