General Manager - Plasma Sourcing

General Manager- Plasma Sourcing

Role Purpose:

- The incumbent will be responsible for managing a dynamic field team spread across India, focusing on strategic procurement of blood plasma.

- This pivotal role requires a blend of leadership acumen, market intelligence, and operational excellence to drive aggressive procurement targets in a highly competitive landscape.

Key Accountabilities:

- Collaborate and develop a high-performance team of blood plasma procurement specialists

- Set and monitor clear performance metrics, drive team accountability and take ownership of delivering the weekly targets

- Implement innovative motivation and performance recognition programs spanning price, quantity, regular collections and referral network

- Conduct regular performance reviews, provide constructive feedback and augment the needed

- Design and execute comprehensive procurement strategies

- Identify and develop strategic supplier relationships

- Negotiate contracts that optimize cost, quality, and supply reliability

- Develop risk mitigation strategies for raw material sourcing

- Build a strong voice and data support solution to augment the field teams efforts and assure sourcing plans are well executed.

- Pre-empt the success of field team with timely intelligence, dynamic approaches and additional push as needed

- Continuously monitor market trends, pricing dynamics, and supply chain disruptions

- Develop real-time predictive models for plasma procurement quantities, pricing and relational dynamics

- Generate actionable insights for strategic decision-making for the field team and the strategic leadership team

- Optimize procurement processes and implement technological solutions

- Ensure compliance with company policies and external regulations

- Manage budget allocations and control sourcing expenditures

- Ensure smooth and efficient fund flow with complete accountability and souring goals realizations

- Drive continuous improvement initiatives

- Maintain strong relationships with standalone BB, hospitals and institutions, internal stakeholders, and external partners

- Represent the organization in critical negotiations and industry forums

- Resolve complex procurement challenges and conflicts