Job Description

Role & responsibilities: Lead and manage a team of Buyers to deliver the appropriate support to the business to ensure corporate and business development objectives are met. Work alongside the senior management team in contributing to overall business objectives. Responsible for ongoing management of purchasing strategy and activity and for ensuring optimal supplier performance and price. Lead and manage multi location engineering purchase teams, develop, and execute purchasing strategies, tracking metrics to reduce expenses, negotiating deals, managing vendors, ensuring timely delivery of procured material for Projects and Plant Maintenance for Head Office and Plants. Develop and implement a strategy to ensure the engineering purchase function is operating in line with the objectives of the business to add value, mitigate supply chain risk and deliver cost savings. Procurement to pay cycle with compliance to all SOPs for Goods & Services, equipment and machinery, contracts for site work and Head Office. Vendor List and New Vendor Development through appropriate due diligence Get the best savings by hard negotiations with vendors and contractors. Prepare reports on purchases, including unit wise PR/PO statistics, savings reports. Preferred candidate profile: B. E. - Mechanical or Chemical 8-12 Yrs Experience in leading Purchasing of Engineering Items and Contracts in chemical companies.