Manager Regional Procurement APAC

Bunge; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Job summary

Bunge is seeking a Manager Regional Procurement APAC based in Mumbai. The role focuses on coordinating procurement activities, managing supplier relationships, and driving cost reductions while mitigating supply risk.

You will participate in long-term supplier partnerships and implement continuous improvement in procurement processes. Key duties include strategy development, spend review, KPI management, and ensuring compliance with safety, quality, and regulatory standards across APAC

Qualifications

• Experience in a procurement role and supporting procurement processes.
• Excellent business acumen and negotiation skills.
• Superior numerical and analytical abilities.
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate procurement activities and manage supplier relationships to reduce costs and mitigate risk.
• Develop and manage procurement strategy aligned with business goals.
• Identify cost-saving opportunities through volume aggregation and supplier consolidation.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, legal, safety and quality requirements.
• Manage supplier contracts and KPIs, and escalate disputes as needed.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of procurement processes and tools.

Skills

Procurement

Negotiation

Attention to detail

Numerical skills

Stakeholder management

Communication

MS Office

Education

Related tertiary qualification in Law/Commerce/Procurement

Tools

MS Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Project

Job description

City: Mumbai, State: Mahārāshtra, Country: India

Position

Manager Regional Procurement APAC (Global Job Title: Mgr I Strategic Procurement)

Department: Strategic Procurement

Job Family: Procurement

Accountability Statement

The primary responsibility of the Procurement Manager role is to coordinate procurement activities and manage supplier relationships in order to reduce costs, add value and mitigate supply risk.

As a valued member of the Bunge team all team members are accountable for the following items:

• Ensure compliance with Bunge’s Performance Factors: Revenue Contribution; Cost Efficiency; Customer Satisfaction; Regulatory, Safety & Environment; People Development;
• Ensure adherence to all aspects of legal compliance as they relate to the role.
• Minimise loss, thereby maximising profit to the business, through ensuring the implementation and compliance with performance and expected behaviours and standards for self and staff including all policies, procedures and code of conduct.

Key Responsibilities

Safety Management

• Contribute and influence an environment where Health & Safety (H&S) is an integral part of how we do business.
• Be involved and committed to achieve a safe workplace.
• Ensure the safety of yourself, your work colleagues, customers and contractors.
• Work to achieve a zero-harm work environment.
• Ensuring key team members undertake contractor permit to works and associated risk assessments within the operations scope of works are completed before the commencement of works.
• Responsible for conducting the incident and injury management processes, including reporting and investigation.

Food Safety and Quality Management

• Contribute to the development of a food safety culture.
• Adhere to processes and procedures, and directions in relation to food safety and quality management.
• Report any identified food safety risks in a timely manner.
• Comply with any role specific food safety and quality management requirements.

Sourcing and Procurement

• Develop and manage a procurement strategy that aligns with operational business strategy.
• Review spend categories and suppliers and engage with the business to identify and support cost saving opportunities and add value through scope optimisation, aggregation of volume and consolidation of suppliers.
• Identify and support initiatives to reduce costs and waste and eliminate unproductive practices.
• Mitigate supply risk and secure supply of business critical goods and services through negotiated agreements, and engagement and maintenance of relationships with key suppliers.
• Engage with key suppliers in ‘long term partnering’ to extract business benefits for both parties.
• Manage supplier contracts through agreed KPIs, and act as escalation point in contract disputes.
• Develop and support Continuous Improvement Programs (CIPs) with approved suppliers.
• Develop procurement KPIs and regularly seek feedback from key business stakeholders.

Financial Management and Control

• Set annual budget Procurement and ensure expenditure is within budget.
• Identify opportunities to reduce costs through procurement activities.
• Manage project budgets, and report on financial position where required.
• Ensure cost savings as a result of initiatives are recorded and can be accurately reported on.
• Ensure master data is accurate, timely and with integrity across all applicable company systems.

Other

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of existing processes, documents, templates and policies, and engage or educate other company employees as appropriate.
• Develop and optimise procurement systems and processes.
• Ensure compliance with internal company policies, procedures and guidelines, applicable external laws, regulations and industry codes.
• Other tasks as required.

Qualifications and Licences

• Related tertiary qualification, ideally with Law, Commerce or Procurement.

Skills and Experience Required to Perform the Role

• Experience in a procurement role / supporting procurement processes.
• Excellent business acumen and negotiation skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Superior numerical and analytical skills.
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
• Superior oral and written communication skills.
• Sound knowledge of technology to support business and delivery of role.
• Highly competent in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Project.