Global Procurement Manager

Job Description

About Client Manufacturer and Distributor of Home Cleaning Solutions ______________________________________________________________Position: Global Procurement ManagerLocation: RemoteReporting To: Global Senior Procurement ManagerCriteria: BE ( Preferably) MBA / Masters in Procurement / Purchase with 5 Years of Experience into ProcurementSkills and Knowledge:
• Knowledge of SAP
• Strong Planning Skills
• Very good Excel & Analytical skills
• Very good people management skills
• Excellent negotiation skills
• Hands on orientation to Problem Solving and Project Management
• Fluent in spoken and written English
Interactions(Internal & External):
• Plant team
• RTC and QA
• Suppliers and Vendors
• Warehousing team
• Planning team
• Finance team
• Marketing and sales Team company India
• Global Team
Job Purpose:
• Strategic sourcing of material to meet organizational targets of top line and bottom line.
• To source new suppliers in our core categories ofcompany / professional products.
• To follow up suppliers development according to company needs.
• To support Quality department to do the factory audits.
• To be part of new product development and in-charge of all procurement aspect until 1rst order delivered.
• To generate cost saving plans and develop strategy to reach yearly targets.
Desired Behaviour: Value for Customer: Anticipates, understands and meets customers needs and expectations.
• Drive and Execution: Shows initiative and a positive attitude to get things done. Works
• effectively and delivers results
• Communication: Communicates clearly, effectively and respectfully to convey
• information to individuals or groups.
• Management of Change: Drives change to significantly improve business to a higher level of quality, effectiveness and performance
• Influence: Has clear view at the big picture.
• Entrepreneurial: Ability to take tactical/strategical decision, considers the
• companys priorities when making decisions and analyzes the costs and benefits of various alternative solutions.
• Accountability: Takes full accountability for actions and results Considers the companys priorities when making decisions and analyzes the costs and benefits of various alternative.
Key Responsibilities:
• Supplier portfolio management for RM, PM, FG development (including price and commercial term negotiation, quality etc.).
• Source new factories and perform benchmarking
• Analyze raw material, packaging material as well as job-worker and vendor market to propose and develop the best suitable partners for company.
• New Product development along with Local and Global team.
• Establish supply chain for New Products.
• Prepare P&L along with Finance and Marketing team to improve profitability.
• Identify Cost saving initiatives and execute to reach annual targets.
• Improve Account payables by negotiating payment terms with Vendors.
• Prepare Vendor score card annually and share it with team and vendors.
• Conceptual development, implementation and maintenance of new global procurement tools,strategic processes and corporate guidelines (e.g. Procurement guideline, supplier council, scorecard, risk management, listing, classification) including documentation and training.
• Perform factory assessments and audits with Quality department
• Meet global targets of sustainability
Additional Responsibilities:
• Follow up quality issues with local teams, factories and coordinate with relevant departments (RTC, Quality, Sales etc)
• Monitor the cost development of major raw materials and initiate price negotiation at threshold point.
• Supervise with supply chain 1st order of new product, keep management alert on potential supply, IP issue, legal and regulation change
• Build communication networks with overseas counter parts and Chinese partners to facilitate product information flow and create inner company efficiency in procurement
• Improve supplier performance by supporting QA team to get 8D report for customer complaints.
• Supplier evaluation and development based on audits.
• Capacity enhancement for future readiness.
• Supplier rationalization by closing the supplier which are not relevant tobusiness.

Keyskills :
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