Manager Procurement

Job Title: Manager Raw Material

Function: P&L

Job Grade: 10

Location: Bangalore

Qualification: Master’s in supply chain

Year of experience: Minimum 08 Yrs of Experience

Job Purpose: Sourcing and procurement operations to manage inventory and ensure continuous supply of commodities required during manufacturing operations in order to achieve the defined production targets for the organization (across locations/plants/breweries) within required quality, timelines, cost and other compliance considerations. 

Job Responsibilities: 

Commodities Purchase Planning 

• Provide raw material purchase data and insights for overall business and SCM planning, 
• Understand sales projections and manufacturing targets for the year, quarter and month to draw inferences and devise raw material purchase plan. 
• Guide team to breakdown overall purchase requirement plan into quarterly/monthly plans for each commodity based on availability, shelf-life and other key factors.
• Review commodities outlook (including forecasts, price trends) for each commodity. 
• Determine total requirement plan for the financial year, devise and implement commodities sourcing strategies by conducting pricing analysis for each commodity. 
• Determine percentage of purchase to be achieved from contract farming and traders/mandi system.

Commodities Purchase Operations 

• barley: 
• Release purchase price for Barley and review on-ground availability and price provided by nominated Commission Agents 
• Keep track of competition strategy and change pricing, as required 
• Lead team in conducting quality assessment on samples of Barley from various sources and determine the optimal source to purchase from 
• Determine warehousing requirements for purchased commodities, Commission warehousing services for requisite storage of commodities 
• barley to malt: 
• Lead team in selecting malting units for conversion of barley into malt based on plant capacity, quality of malt and conversion costs 
• Facilitate the audit to be conducted for the malting units and drive adherence to UBL compliances/guidelines (through quality checks and trainings) 
• sugar and broken rice: 
• Lead team in identifying vendors for sugar and broken rice in proximity to plants/breweries 
• Facilitate the audit to be conducted for the vendors; Guide team to contract with vendors for sugar and broken rice based on audit reports 
• After auctions, determine L1/L2/L3 vendors and place purchase orders, as required 
• hops and enzymes: 
• Lead team in maintaining lead inventory for hops and enzymes and place orders with approved vendors on a rolling basis 

Vendor Management and Governance 

• Share pre-qualification checklist with potential vendors and review vendor responses to pre-qualification checklist in coordination with the project team (for type of commodity) 
• Review overall commercial aspects shared by the potential vendor(s) 
• Coordinate with Project team to conduct vendor site visit and discussions, as required (by project team or external vendor) 
• Review report submitted based on-site visit; Post verification, share RFQ for the projects with potential vendor(s) 
• Update the master list to include any new vendors to be added to the empaneled mix 

Barley Variety Development Program 

• Partner with external agencies/organizations to obtain high quality, disease-resistant seeds from other countries (e.g. France, Germany) 
• Lead team to create better variety of barley seeds through hybridization of foreign seeds with Indian seeds 
• Lead team in conducting relevant activities at trial farmland; Track achievement vs. targets and solve complex issues faced by the team 

Contract Farming 

• Keep abreast of farmer context, government policies and contact farming ecosystem 
• Build relationships with key stakeholders across farming communities 
• Build farmer knowledge and technical know-how (in terms of best practices and real-time weather) 
• Provide own seeds to farmers, to maximize commodity yield 

Contracts and Financial Management 

• Drive timely payments to suppliers, after conducting quality checks and receiving orders; Determine deductions to be made based on quality reports. 
• Experience in driving adherence to contractual and legal requirements as per internal and external compliances and guidelines