Sr. Executive - Purchasing

KOHLER India; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

KOHLER India is seeking a data governance and purchasing data specialist to strengthen global purchasing support. The role focuses on processing agreements, coordinating with buyers and suppliers, and ensuring data integrity across enterprise systems.

You will drive data quality initiatives, maintain master data, and implement governance standards to support regulatory and business needs. A customer-focused mindset and strong collaboration across teams are essential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver Global Purchasing Services in an excellent manner.
• Receive agreement requests, review, pick format, and initiate supplier agreements.
• Coordinate with Buyers, Suppliers, and Stakeholders for agreement execution information.
• Improve continually in purchasing systems and process implementation.
• Maintain data integrity and compliance by managing supplier, material, and sourcing master data.
• Establish and enforce data governance standards, controls, and audit readiness processes.
• Lead data quality improvement initiatives, root cause analysis, and process standardization.
• Manage stakeholder relations and be a customer advocate for global purchasing support areas.
• Manage workload and follow up on outstanding items and approvals required.
• Develop and sustain a high-performance, deliverable-focused team culture.
• Implement secure procedures for data handling, processing, and analysis.
• Ensure data is processed within time limits and reports shared per frequency/methods.
• Review data for deficiencies or errors, correct incompatibilities, and check outputs.
• Establish rules for presenting data, trends, and dashboards with stakeholders.
• Evaluate and draft reports concerning data findings and share challenges with supervision.

Job description

• Deliver Global Purchasing Services in an excellent manner.
• Receiving agreement requests from the users, reviewing the request, selecting the approved format for the agreement, initiating the agreement with supplier.
• Coordinate with Buyers, Suppliers, and other Stakeholders to get the necessary information for agreement execution.
• Ability to improve continually in purchasing systems and process implementation.
• Ensure data integrity and compliance by maintaining accurate supplier, material, and sourcing master data across enterprise systems.
• Establish and enforce data governance standards, controls, and audit readiness processes to support regulatory and business requirements.
• Lead data quality improvement initiatives, root cause analysis, and process standardization to enhance sourcing data accuracy and operational effectiveness.
• Manage relations with the stakeholders and be a customer advocate for all the assigned global purchasing support areas.
• Manage workload and actively follows-up on outstanding items and approvals required to perform the task, as necessary.
• Develop and sustain a high performance and deliverable, focused culture within the team
• Implement efficient and secure procedures for data handling, processing, and analysis with attention to all technical aspects.
• Ensure the required data is processed within set time limits, reports are extracted and shared with the teams concerned as per defined frequency and methods.
• Reviewing data for deficiencies or errors, correcting any incompatibility, and checking output.
• Establish rules and procedures for presenting the data, trends, and dashboards with internal & external stakeholders
• Evaluating and drafting reports concerning data findings.
• Reporting the data processing, extracting challenges to the supervisor / manager in a timely manner