Manager RPM

Job Title: Manager RPM (Returnable Packaging Material)

Function: P&L

Job Grade: 10

Location: Bangalore

Year of experience: Minimum 07 Yrs of Experience

Job Purpose: Manage bottle management operations for a category (e.g. old and new bottles) for UBL, across planning & procurement, inventory management, and vendor & compliances management in order to drive adequate availability of old and new bottles at breweries across India in line with production and sales requirements

Job Responsibilities: 

Planning and Budgeting Support

• Contribute to the functional planning and budgeting exercise, by providing budgetary estimates and other information related to old and new bottle procurement
• Participate in monthly review meets with P&L teams to assess the performance of bottle availability for each plant/brewery and implement course-corrections, as required

Old and New Bottle Management

• Determine and implement an optimal strategy for sourcing of old and new bottles
• Jointly with the supervisor, determine if current supplier ecosystem/capacities can fulfill demand; If not, determine way forward for the balance requirement through imports, new supplier onboarding in the domestic market
• Drive availability of stock at various plants to ensure seamless manufacturing operations with no stock-outs
• Conduct robust vendor-plant mapping in order to optimize freight costs
• Conduct long-term planning of different SKUs, in coordination with supplier’s color run
• Drive availability of sufficient inventory levels at each brewery based on production plan, lead time for bottle procurement and storage capacities
• Conduct monthly monitoring of prices across breweries, and drive course-corrections, as required.

Contract Management

• Lead identification/mapping of suppliers for old and new bottle procurement, oversee RFQ process and conduct bid evaluation (technical and commercial standpoint)
• Participate in 1st level negotiations with suppliers and determine L1/L2/L3; Participate in finalization of technical requirements and commercials for bottle procurement
• Provide recommendation on final supplier to award contract to and submit to relevant stakeholders for final approval
• Coordinate with legal team and suppliers to execute the contract formalities for the category
• Contribute to development of terms and conditions for contracts with external ecosystem (suppliers, vendors, agents etc.), promoting and protect UBL interests
• Conduct periodic review of the execution of contracts (for the category) based on actual achievement; Identify gaps and lead issue resolution, as required
• Drive timely updation of contract terms in SAP for the category
• Obtain approvals from PCM on price changes for old bottle procurement

Compliances & Internal Reporting

• Drive adherence to laid down SOPs for bottle procurement related activities
• Build supplier awareness on UBL SOPs, compliances, buyer’s code and guidelines
• Lead team to provide required financial reporting for each category
• Lead team to gather and collate data/information pertaining to old bottles
• Guide team to prepare and circulate daily reports
• Month-to-date returns of old bottles against targets
• New bottle usage (NBI - New Bottle Infusion) rate
• Available stock across breweries ,Guide team to prepare and circulate monthly reports/presentations, highlighting support required, issues being faced, current plans etc.

Stakeholder Management

• Build, sustain and leverage relationships with old bottle vendors (at S1 level) to coordinate and maximize old bottle procurement and availability at each plant
• Coordinate with new bottle vendors to address production issues and shifting SKU requirements
• Partner with brewery P&L head and brewery heads to solve operational issues and bottlenecks; Implement corrective actions collaboratively, from case-to-case basis

Team Management

• Plan manpower requirements and make hiring decisions for team
• Define targets/set goals, allocate responsibilities, and conduct performance appraisals against set targets for team members
• Provide coaching, support, and leadership to ensure adequate skills and competencies are developed in the team
• Take responsibility to ensure that the team imbibes the committed UBL values and culture