Buyer indirect Material

Bonfiglioli; Chennai District; On-site; INR 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Bonfiglioli in Chennai, India, seeks a procurement professional to manage indirect materials purchasing with a focus on on-time delivery, cost competitiveness, and quality. You will handle PR to PO conversion, vendor negotiations, info-record creation, and PO issuance, while maintaining supplier relationships and tracking KPIs.

Responsibilities include obtaining quotes, preparing cost comparisons, ensuring timely approvals, and driving annual contract negotiations for indirect materials such as

Qualifications

• Must manage indirect materials procurement end-to-end.
• Strong negotiation to obtain best price, delivery terms and payment terms.
• Monitor and improve on-time delivery against system demand.

Responsibilities

• Review daily PRs and validate data.
• Inform users within 2 days if documents are missing.
• Obtain multiple quotes and prepare cost comparison sheets.
• Negotiate with vendors for price, delivery, and terms.
• Create Info records and ensure PO creation per supplier terms.

Skills

Vendor management

Negotiation

Supply planning

PO processing

KPI tracking

Stakeholder communication

Tools

SAP

Job description

Role:

To effectively manage the purchase of Indirect Materials, ON time with competive cost & right quality.

Key Responsibilities:

PR to PO conversion

• Daily review the received PR and validate the data
• Inform user within 2 days if any missing/ insufficient document if so
• Obtain Multiple quotes
• Prepare cost comparison sheet for finalization of price
• Negotiate with Vendors for obtaining best price, delivery time and Payment terms
• Info record creation
• Getting approval of Info record & Ensure PO creation as per the agreed terms with supplier and documents uploaded in SAP
• Ensure PO approval and Send PO to respective supplier with copy to user
• Engage with supplier & ensure if any supply or quality concern raised user
• Act as point contact for supplier and user to ensure smooth supplier relationship.

Achieve OTD

• Ensure weekly Schedule, PO release & OTD as per system Demand for Paint, Oil & Grease
• Ensure OTD of LPG, Methanol, Paint, Oil, Diesel as per users request
• Ensure OTD of indirect material purchase followed parts
• Send Forecast of Next 6month as per ZMAN/ME2M & Get Capacity confirmation for direct material OIL, Grease

Cost Reduction

• Generate CR ideas items handled
• Implement approved CR Projects as per the agreed target

Annual Purchase Agreements / Contracts

• Identify potential repeated IDM purchase for converting annual contract
• Negotiate and release Annual contracts

Resolve issues / concern - Supplier /Internal customer

• Receive & acknowledge, concern, issue raised and respond with commitments within 48 hours
• Close the same as per the agreed time line

KPI

• Manage and meet Strategic sourcing KPIs
• Review monthly KPIs and ensure corrective action plans are implemented on time.

Supplier engagement

• Conduct supplier satisfaction survey and deploy improvement actions
• Conduct Annual vendor meet
• Introduce Supplier-BTPL interface through 3PL/4PL techniques to enhance performance

General

• Ensure Zero noncompliance as per statutory and audit compliance
• Maintain Indirect Material vendor contact based with updated contact list
• Obtain approval of document and Create & update the vendor base
• Adhere to update DRM as per agreed frequency