Engineering Procurement Coordinator

Tata Consumer Products; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consulting Engineers Limited (TCE) invites a seasoned Procurement Manager to lead procurement and contracts management for major EPCM projects in India. The role focuses on developing strategies, drafting commercial terms, and ensuring ethical, efficient procurement across home and site offices.

You will coordinate with project management, engineering, and construction teams to optimize cost, quality, and schedule while maintaining governance and supplier relationships.

Qualifications

• Requires 12+ years of experience in procurement or supply chain management, preferably in EPCM.
• Extensive EPCM project environment experience with capital projects in a management role.
• Experience with drafting of commercial terms and understanding legal implications.

Responsibilities

• Provide procurement strategies based on project details and program requirements during pre-tender activities.
• Draft and implement project-specific procurement templates and procedures with client and delivery teams.
• Disseminate client-approved procurement policies and procedures to PMC teams.
• Ensure procurement processes and procedures are effectively implemented at the PMC level.
• Provide process workflows, procedures manual and standard templates for procurement lifecycle usage.
• Review processes for adherence and recommend amendments as needed.
• Maintain up-to-date market knowledge from live projects and update templates to improve efficiency.
• Provide subcontract administration support to program/project management.
• Develop NDAs and Teaming Agreements with subcontractors.
• Prepare RFPs, evaluate subcontractor proposals, negotiate subcontracts, and administer subcontract agreements.
• Ensure integrity of the entire procurement lifecycle and ethical business practices.
• Site visits to oversee procurement/commercial activities as required.

Skills

Procurement management

EPCM experience

Contract drafting

Vendor management

Education

Engineering degree

Contracts/Legal training

Job description

Job Description:

About Us

Tata Consulting Engineers Limited (TCE) is the largest Indian private sector engineering and project consultancy and an emerging global leader in integrated engineering solutions. With more than 60 years of engineering excellence, TCE has a presence in over 64 countries and over 12000 completed projects, the company operates in 3 core Industry segments -Infrastructure (Water, Environment, Urban Development, Buildings, Manufacturing Facilities, Ports and Harbours, Transportation), Power (Thermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Renewable, Transmission and Distribution) and Resources - Hydrocarbons and Chemicals (Oil, Gas and Refineries, Chemicals, Petrochemicals, Fertilizers, Speciality Chemicals, Pulp and Paper, Cement, Food, Pharmaceuticals and Beverages, Tyre, Glass) as well as Mining and Metallurgy (Mining, Geology, Beneficiation, Steel, Non-ferrous). TCE serves domestic as well as international markets and is known for several first-of-its-kind projects offering Engineering Studies, Design Engineering Services, Project Management Consultancy Services, OPEX and IIOT across all three verticals. A part of Tata Group - India’s most respected group, TCE is a 100 percent subsidiary of Tata Sons Limited Design your Future with us At TCE, you will experience a supportive environment that empowers you to excel, whether you are based in our offices or at a client site. We embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion, fostering a workplace where every individual can thrive by contributing their unique skills and perspectives to deliver exceptional results for our clients. Our comprehensive compensation and benefits packages are designed to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families, complemented by a robust global well-being program. As a leading global infrastructure firm, we are committed to your growth and success, offering access to cutting-edge technology and impactful projects that offer flexibility and significant professional opportunities. Join us and become part of a global company that values your potential and supports your career development.

Purpose & Scope of Position

The Procurement Manager is involved in a project from the proposal/study up to the project close-out. The major interfaces are with project management, engineering, project controls and construction management to ensure a cross-functional implementation of materials management and contracts management processes. The Procurement Manager directs, controls and coordinates the procurement on the project obtaining optimum performances with regards to cost, technical requirements and quality to satisfy the project budget and schedule. The Procurement Manager is the custodian of the entire procurement cycle which includes materials management and contracts management at the home and/or site offices.

Experience

• This position requires 12+ years’ experience in procurement or supply chain management, preferably in the EPCM industry.
• Extensive experience on an EPCM project environment with capital projects, specifically in a management role
• Experience with drafting of commercial terms and conditions and an understanding of accompanying legal implications

Qualification

• Postgraduate or graduate in an engineering discipline
• Related training in Contracts/Legal as well as general project and management related training

Key Responsibilities

1. Pre-Tender Activities: Provide insights and ideas into the creation of the procurement strategies based on the specific details and program requirements of the Project.
2. Process and Procedures Drafting and Implementation: Drafting and implementation of the Project specific standard procurement templates and procedures. to be done in conjunction with both the Client and internal delivery team (wherein required).
3. Ensure that Client approved procurement policies and procedures created are packaged and disseminated to the PMC teams.
4. Ensure that Project procurement processes and procedures are being effectively implemented at the PMC level.
5. Provide process workflows, procedures manual and standard templates to utilise during the procurement lifecycle.
6. Reviewing the processes to ensure they are being adhered to and provide input and recommendations for any amendments where necessary.
7. Ensuring that the procurement team gains up-to-date market knowledge from live projects as well as identifying processes and procedures and/or templates that may need revision to improve efficiency.
8. Provides subcontract administration support to program/project management.
9. Develops NDAs and Teaming Agreements with subcontractors.
10. Prepares RFPs, reviews and analyzes subcontractor’s proposals, negotiates subcontracts, and administers subcontract agreements.
11. Verifies and ensures integrity of the entire procurement lifecycle, validates that all activities are carried out in accordance with the relevant procedures, maintains sound business practices in an ethical manner
12. Where required, performs site visits/client office visits to oversee the procurement/ commercial activities or resolve issues arising on the project. maintains a presence both on site and in TCE office. In specific cases, a Site Procurement Manager may be based at site during the construction phase.