Category Head (Corporate SCM)

Varroc; Pune District; Sur place; INR 3 000 000 - 5 000 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Relocation benefits

Résumé du poste

Varroc in Pune is seeking a senior procurement leader to drive category strategy across sourcing, purchasing and tendering. Build long-term supplier relationships, manage capacity planning and cost saving targets, and ensure timely, cost-effective development of components per standards.

Reports to Group CSCO with a team of Category Managers. Role requires MBA/PG in SCM and 18–22 years in Automotive Purchasing, broad supplier base exposure, and strong knowledge of procurement analysis tools.

Qualifications

• MBA / PG in SCM is preferred.

Responsabilités

• Formulate category procurement, negotiation and capacity planning strategies to provide cost effective and timely service.
• Develop/modify procurement and capacity planning processes and monitor compliance through regular reviews.
• Negotiate contractual arrangements to ensure value for money and high service levels.
• Build and maintain supplier relationships and expand business opportunities for Varroc.
• Maintain a contract database and supplier overview with key contracted information.
• Meet suppliers monthly for capacity scheduling and discuss investments and contingencies.
• Manage spikes or reductions in production due to changing customer requirements.
• Monitor supplier performance against KPIs and SLAs; resolve conflicts promptly.
• Participate in recruitment to identify talent and review performance; develop team members.

Description du poste

Responsible to formulate and drive a consistent approach towards all sourcing, purchasing and tendering activity within the Manufacturing category ensuring value add through cost savings. Oversee timely and cost-effective development of components as per desired standards. Inculcate the culture of developing Long Term Suppliers to help cater to Varroc's commercial interests

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

1. Category annual planning

1. Proactively participate in the annual business planning meetings of the concerned BU to understand plans and derive material requirements
2. Determine capacity basis the derived material need; devise a strategy to ensure timely and cost-effective fulfillment of the capacity requirement
3. Work with the Global CSCO (Chief Supply Chain Officer) to finalize cost savings targets for the category aligned with business requirements
4. Develop the category annual plan basis capacity and cost targets ensuring its timely implementation by working closely with Category Managers
5. Design appropriate reporting and monitoring mechanisms that clearly highlight cost savings achieved by category

2. Strategy formulation and process development

1. Formulate the category procurement, negotiation and capacity planning strategies to provide cost effective and timely service to concerned businesses; ensure alignment of the formulated strategy with that of other categories
2. Develop/modify the procurement and capacity planning processes basis experience, observations from periodic reviews and work with the concerned stakeholders to drive their implementation. Monitor compliance to set processes through regular reviews on supplier selection, budget adherence, documentation completion, timely updates on SAP, capacity scheduling etc.
3. Formulate the costing strategy for projects and proactively work with the BD and BU teams to negotiate contractual arrangements with suppliers to ensure that value for money and excellent service levels is maintained
4. Build and maintain critical supplier relationships by ensuring that all concerns raised by the supplier are addressed promptly and more opportunities are created for the supplier to expand its business with Varroc
5. Develop a suitable contract database and protocol for ongoing supplier management including the ongoing creation, rationalization and management of suppliers along with a clear contractor overview highlighting key contracted information
6. Meet with key suppliers every month for capacity scheduling aligned with formulated capacity planning strategies; influence to accept plans/scenarios
7. Discuss required investment commitments from the supplier and support (if any) to be offered by Varroc
8. Work closely to manage spikes or reduction in production basis changing customer requirements
9. Monitor and track progress of supplier's performance in line with KPIs, contractual obligations and service level agreements
10. Resolve conflicts and disputes between user teams and supplier in a timely manner to prevent any lag in delivery of materials
11. Participate in recruitment process to identify the right talent across positions within the function
12. Establish individual performance expectations and regularly review individual performance of the team
13. Identify and create development opportunities for team members to enhance functional knowledge

EDUCATION / QUALIFICATION

Qualifications preferred: MBA / PG in SCM

WORK EXPERIENCE

1. Minimum 18-22 years of strong experience in Automotive Purchasing / Procurement Category / Commodity Management
2. Strong Knowledge of Automotive Industry & understanding of Automotive Components and is manufacturing processes
3. Exposure Automotive Industry supplier/vendor base in terms of Volume of components, number of suppliers/vendors managed & total spend/buying value responsible for
4. Knowledge of procurement analysis tools
5. Hands-on with SCM ERP systems / platforms and Zero-Based Costing

The Position reports to the Group CSCO (Chief Supply Chain Officer) and has a Team Category Managers & Leads reporting to it

RELOCATION

Outstation candidates will have to relocate to PUNE & will be eligible to avail the Relocation Policy benefits.