Head - Procurement

Procurement Head is responsible for creating and implementing the sourcing strategies for Pan India, streamline the comprehensive services to minimize costs and guarantee the highest quality of goods and services for the organization. This position involves managing a team of professionals in sourcing, quality, logistics, and costing, and managing supplier relationships, and working closely with internal stakeholders to ensure sourcing initiatives align with business goals. A proven track record in Pan India / Global sourcing setup is essential for this role.

Key Responsibilities / Functions:

- Develop and implement strategic sourcing plans that align with the organization's goals.

- Collaborate with the Group companies' procurement department to take over procurement seamlessly

- Identify new sourcing opportunities for optimizing inventories and to deliver superior customer satisfaction

- Integrate, Recruit, develop, and oversee employees within the sourcing department.

- Analyse and calculate procurement costs, devising strategies for cost reduction.

- Develop KPI's and dashboards to highlight cost savings, and service level satisfaction and populate it regularly

- Maintain strategic sourcing relationships and develop robust partnerships with key suppliers, covering costs, terms of supply, service, and quality.

- Work closely with internal stakeholders to understand and optimize sourcing needs and plan ahead

- Identify potential supply chain risks and develop strategies to mitigate them.

- Scale the central procurement company to be a Rs. 500 crore company in 3 years and make it a profitable organization- supplying beyond the internal group companies.

- Conduct regular market research to stay informed about industry trends and best practices and ensure optimize purchases.

Qualifications:

- Engineering background or experienced finance background resource

- 15 years' experience handling procurement in a 500+ cr organization

- Must have handled team of minimum 5 members

- Good communication and leadership skills

- Sound commercial and technical knowledge to handle the function -

a. Sound knowledge of IT procurement - hardware and software licenses

b. Civil/electrical/mechanical installation support at clients' end

c. Consumables procurement

d. Inventory management