Specialist - Procurement

Flex; Coimbatore District; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

PTO

Job summary

Flex is seeking a Specialist - Procurement in Coimbatore to support production planning through strategic sourcing and supplier collaboration. The role focuses on maintaining supplier relationships, ordering raw materials, and ensuring timely deliveries to meet manufacturing needs.

Ideal candidates will have 3+ years in procurement or supply chain, proficiency with Word/Excel/PowerPoint and ERP systems, and a strong eye for cost, quality, and on-time performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of procurement / supply chain experience.
• Experience with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ERP software, data entry.

Responsibilities

• Maintain supplier relations and place material orders.
• Track shipments and manage purchase orders per production plan.
• Monitor inventory, avoid overstock, and mitigate obsolescence.
• Approve invoices and manage procurement records.
• Conduct quarterly supplier reviews and ensure data privacy compliance.

Skills

English language

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

ERP software

Ten-key

Job description

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world. A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment.

Specialist - Procurement (Coimbatore)

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add Specialist - Procurement position will be based in Coimbatore.

What a typical day looks like

• Maintaining relations with the suppliers.
• Placing orders for necessary raw materials and purchased parts according to the requirements of the production.
• Receiving and handling the confirmations.
• Checking the purchase orders and modifying them according to the changes in the production plan with the help of the Shortage List and the Open Purchase Order List.
• Tracking shipments, urging them if needed.
• Regular, weekly check of the stocks, avoiding overstock.
• Minimizing the risk of obsolescence with the help of the weekly check of the obsolete report.
• Correspondence with the freight forwarders, warehouses, and in case organizing the transportation.
• Dealing with claims, settling debit and credit issues.
• Filing and recording all necessary documents.
• Checking the inventory of critical materials (personally if needed) according to the Shortage List.
• Getting in touch with the right warehouse personnel and having the discrepancy modified if there is any inventory discrepancies.
• Handling purchasing data privacy.
• Assuring all active components according to production needs, in time, for the accord price in the request.
• Reviews requisitions and MRP output.
• Confers with vendors to obtain product information such as price, availability and delivery schedule.
• Orders, reschedules and cancels material based on requisitions and MRP output.
• Maintains procurement records such as items purchased, costs, delivery and inventories.
• Manages supplier to price, delivery and quality expectations and escalates when appropriate.
• Approves invoices for payment.
• Investigation inventory levels.
• Monitors the movement of materials through the production cycle.
• Conducts quarterly supplier reviews.
• Maintains procurement records, reports and metrics.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team

• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Min. 3+ years of procurement / supply chain experience.
• Use of the following tools may be required: Working usage of Word, Excel and Power Point, English language knowledge, data entry, ten-key, spreadsheet (PC), ERP software.

What you’ll receive for the great work you provide

• Health Insurance
• PTO

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