Deputy General Manager - Real Estate Category Procurement
Schneider Electric
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Job summary
Qualifications
- Minimum 8 years experience in Real Estate Category Management.
- Knowledge of India markets for category leveraging.
- Experience in supplier performance management.
- Proven Project & Change Management skills.
- Excellent Communication, Influence & Convincing Abilities.
- Business Relationship Management and Networking with a customer focus.
- Ability to develop and implement category strategies for real estate procurement (leasing, construction, property management).
Responsibilities
- Build strong business relationships with plant management.
- Monitor procurement policy compliance.
- Strive towards continuous improvement and alignment with business.
- Develop, maintain and implement procurement policies accommodating regional differences.
- Monitor policy compliance and drive improvements across indirect procurement.
- Manage vendor relationships and ensure SLA compliance.
- Ensure service levels are met and take mitigation actions for non-fulfillment.
- Align procurement strategy with business objectives and drive value.
- Leverage knowledge of Indian markets to optimize sourcing.
- Oversee end-to-end plant procurement, spend and savings targets.
- Act as business partner to translate needs into procurement solutions.
- Drive alignment of global procurement with business strategy.
- Deliver services that satisfy stakeholders and create value.
- Identify cost-reduction opportunities through alternate vendors and new products.
- Support scrap management and issue resolution for the plant.
Skills
Education
Job description
Who are we?
Procurement for the Real Estate Category plays a strategic leadership role, overseeing all procurement activities related to real estate assets and services. This position is responsible for driving cost efficiency, ensuring compliance, and aligning procurement strategies with the organization’s real estate and business objectives.
Our sourcing experts will focus on the strategic value‑add, developing supplier partnerships and innovations with cutting edge expertise in more than 150 kind of procurement categories. Our regional teams will partner with our businesses to deliver on targets. Our goal as a business enabler is to make buying easy for all Schneider Electric employees.
We are a global team of 250 professionals, serving all business of Schneider Electric, more than 500 entities in more than 150 countries. We establish integral partnerships with our strategic suppliers and are striving to contribute to the top line growth of the company for our customers & shareholders.
- Stakeholder satisfaction & relationship management: Build strong business relationships with the plant management team.
- Define and track the indirect procurement performance dashboard for the plant.
- Sourcing life cycle management and in‑depth understanding of the sourcing life cycle for internal needs analysis, market analysis, supplier qualification and classification, supplier consultation and selection, supply qualification, negotiation and contractual relationship management and supplier performance management.
- Develop, maintain, and administer procurement policy allowing for cultural and regional differences with cross‑functional coordination as needed.
- Monitor indirect procurement policy compliance and provide strategies to increase compliance.
- Develop, implement and manage all vendor relationships and services ensuring compliance to service level agreements.
- Monitor and report activities to ensure fulfilling service levels and take mitigation actions in case of non‑fulfilment of agreements.
- Strive towards continuous indirect procurement strategy alignment with the business, vendor improvement, and management of key category relationships.
- Knowledge of India markets and leverages sourcing methodologies to drive the category.
- Responsible for end‑to‑end management of assigned manufacturing plant, including category sourcing, projects in the pipeline, procurement process and policies and managing the spend and savings targets for the plant spend.
- Accountable for all indirect procurement categories spend & savings targets and objectives for assigned plant.
- Act as local business partner and be the voice of business stakeholder’s needs & requirements by understanding and relaying business needs and requirements.
- Facilitate to ensure balance between procurement strategies and operational realities to ensure the alignment of global procurement with the business strategies.
- Provide outstanding services that meet stakeholders’ needs to achieve outstanding customer satisfaction.
- Continuously develop and maintain services and solutions to generate value for the business.
- Cost reduction in manufacturing by developing alternate vendors, and introducing new products that are aligned with the manufacturing process.
- Supporting scrap management for the manufacturing plant.
- Support issue resolutions.
- Develop and implement category strategies for real estate procurement (leasing, construction, property management).
- Identify cost‑saving opportunities and optimize supplier base.
Leads controls and drives improvement in the transactional buying processes for respective category areas in order to capitalize on opportunities, drive productivity, and deliver quality and service requirements for all business stakeholders.
Manages supplier relationships to encourage supplier innovation and maximize value contributions to Schneider Electric through effective sourcing and contracting processes. Responsible for leading discussions with critical suppliers around long‑term objectives and strategies, ongoing market trends, innovation and technology advances, and potential investment decisions.
Constantly seeking out and reviewing industry and category specific best practices, processes and systems to leverage opportunities within the Schneider Electric network.
Works closely with business and functional leaders to establish and manage budgets for respective category areas. Incorporates contractual commitments, and industry and supply market trends to forecast variances and productivity commitment deliverables using a TCO methodology.
In depth understanding of the life cycle (R1‑R12 responsibility matrix).
- R1 - Internal needs analysis: Work with internal stake owners to define the needs in line with stake owners expectations.
- R2 - Market analysis: Analyze market / suppliers / technology and offer the internal stake owners the best in class products, technology, service, price etc.
- R3 - Supplier’s qualification and classification: Introduce reputed and qualified suppliers to the company and follow company supplier classification guidelines. Perform supplier due diligence to evaluate the potential, local presence.
- R4 - Supplier’s consultation and selection: Following supplier selection on selected criteria’s defined with the internal stake owners on their needs, expectations and in line with market evolutions.
- R5 - Supply Qualification: Work with internal stake owners to qualify supplies as per defined specifications and SLA needs.
- R6 & R7 – Negotiation and contractual relationship management:
- Conduct RFI/RFP/RFQ/Reverse auctions with the assistance of e‑Sourcing tool.
- Administer the competitive bidding process and facilitate pre‑award and post‑award activities.
- Lead the negotiations end to end with suppliers and get the best techno‑commercial value for the company.
- Knowledge of the contractual clauses. This includes the ability to evaluate, interpret, and improve the language used in contractual agreements.
- Lead relationship with suppliers at operational and strategic level for the company.
- Responsible for managing relationships with internal customers and external suppliers to ensure sourcing opportunities are fully realized.
- Negotiate and manage contract on behalf of the company as per defined process with all stake owners and legal.
- Conduct necessary cost/risk analysis in order to provide advice, data, and support for decisions to renew, renegotiate, or competitively source materials or services.
- Perform Spend analysis by analyzing the Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly Spend data. Identify sourcing Opportunities such as Supplier base rationalization & Spend / Savings forecasting.
- Support the internal stake owners to deploy the contract.
- R8 - Supplier Performance Management:
- Lead and manage business reviews (operational and strategic) with all key suppliers and also ensure day to day performance management of the suppliers.
- Define/manage the supplier network, business orientation and maintained preferred suppliers lists.
- Country Supplier Mapping: identify business needs & market evolution.
- Preferred Supplier Leadership: negotiation, lead business review and supplier development program.
- R9 – R12 Purchase Order Placement … Payment: Work closely and support the Procurement / Finance teams on inputs/ issues related to PO placement, Invoice payment etc.
Continuous improvement & solutions generation
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree with relevant experience of a minimum 8+ years in Real Estate Category Management. This role ensures cost efficiency, compliance, and value creation through strategic vendor management and market analysis.
- Experienced in Procurement Negotiation.
- Business Acumen.
- Project & Change Management.
- Communication, Influence & Convincing Skills.
- Business Relationship Management.Networking Management & Customer Orientation.
- Develop and implement category strategies for real estate procurement (leasing, construction, property management).
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