Senior Manager Procurement and Logistics

Job Title: Sr. Manager Procurement and Logistics

Function: SCM

Job Grade: 15

Location: Taloja-Navi Mumbai

Qualification: Graduate and Diploma in Supply chain

Year of experience: Minimum 10 Years of Experience

Job Purpose:

The purpose of the role is to manage the Procurement and logistics of Packaging materials. This involves sourcing and purchasing packaging materials, negotiating contracts with suppliers for own and contract around 30 plants, managing a huge base of vendors, developing new vendors. The Manager of Procurement and Logistics is responsible for ensuring that the organization has the necessary supplies and materials across the plants to operate efficiently and cost-effectively, while also ensuring timely and accurate delivery of Packaging material to plants across India. The position plays a crucial role in optimizing the procurement process, minimizing costs, and maximizing the overall operational efficiency of the organization.

 Job Responsibilities: 

Procurement management:

• Frame the RFQ’s inline with a strategy to ensure supplies at the most competitive price.
• Ensure that the procurement policy is followed without deviation to get the best deal for the company.
• Follow the procurement policies to take the necessary approvals.
• Develop an end-to-end strategy during each auction process for the procurement of packaging material.
• Closely coordinate with the Global procurement team to ensure that the procurement decisions are closed in time.
• Effectively manage the vendors to ensure supplies at the contracted prices.
• Assess the market trends of key input materials to understand the cost drivers to negotiate the best prices.
• Allocate the Share of business to vendors by considering the least cost combinations.
• Maintaining a Dashboard across materials to review the allocation of business versus the contracts.
• Coordinating between the vendors and plants to resolve issue and ensure the fulfilment of supplies.
• Ensure that the Procure to pay cycle is completed for each vendor and intervene in case an issue arises.
• Coordinate with Legal and other stakeholders to complete the contract sign offs with the vendors.
• Upload the rates, source and quota in SAP as per the approved document.
• Should work in line with the policies of the Organization to ensure compliances
• Should develop the annual budgets and ensure that the prices are in control in line with the budget.
• Should regularly review the production plans and give projections to the vendors for them to plan their Raw Material inventory.
• Coordinate with the internal stakeholders to organize the inbound Logistics for PM movement.
• Scouting for new vendors and adding new vendors to the vendor base to ensure that the capacity requirements are met.