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Consultant - Procurement Manager

  • Full Time
  • On-Site - Mumbai
  • 12 months
  • Project posted on: 10/08/2026
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Consultant - Procurement Manager

  • Supply Chain Management
  • Procurement and vendor management
  • Indirect Procurement

On-Site - Mumbai

Full Time

12 months

 10/08/2026

Assignment Details

Our client, a leading FMCG Organization is looking to engage with a Procurement Manager.

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

Material Strategy:

  • Prepare global sourcing strategy for Builders, clearly identifying the market trends in immediate and related chemicals markets
  • Scout for new transformative technologies for producing Soda ash with a significantly reduced carbon footprint and evaluate business cases for scale up
  • Seek inputs from markets and categories to sharpen strategy and plans
  • Drive alignment on the sourcing strategies, and support for successful execution from all key stakeholders across ranks in Business Groups, Business Units, R&D, Supply Chain and Procurement teams.
  • Identify risks to the business, and prepare resilience plans to overcome them
  • Identify newer opportunities and models of sourcing for the business: e.g. Joint buying, upstream buying, buy to sell, etc.

 

Portfolio Management:

  • Develop short/mid-term negotiation strategies
  • Follow dynamically changing market conditions, understand direct and indirect factors influencing supply, demand and prices and develop a view of future markets trends for the business
  • Deep understanding of material value chains to unbundle and optimize delivered costs through lean principles, DTV, logistics optimization projects and de-dollarization initiatives
  • Full contracting cycle for the materials: from creation and administration of Tenders to the negotiation and closure of contract
  • Create/ collaborate and approve sourcing contracts in the Contract Lifecycle Management system on time in full
  • Use Smart Buying tools for extracting greater value: eTender, cost-plus/ market-minus pricing mechanisms, nego-factory, etc.
  • Compliance of materials with organization's specifications, through approvals granted by R&D teams
  • Continuously scans the market to benchmark organization's performance vs. competition

 

Supplier Management:

  • Nurture and manage supplier relationships to ensure organization gets top priority in service, quality, cash, and cost of materials
  • Measure and manage overall performance of suppliers while leading several strategic relationships
  • Manage all contracting discussions with the suppliers, including RFQ, negotiations, compliances, etc.
  • Execute legal contracts with suppliers in the form of organization's Purchase Agreement and Commercial Terms Contract (and where required, also Special Terms Contracts)
  • Manage the Compliance of suppliers and sources on organization's Supplier Qualification System (Aravo): Responsible Sourcing Policy compliance and Quality Assessment compliance
  • Supplier scouting, Business case evaluation to bring to life Net Zero Soda Ash produced through regenerative sources
  • Engage and lead the discussions with PTW, and JBDP suppliers to identify opportunities on value generation, sustainability, and resilience

 

Business engagement:

  • Work closely with Business Groups & Business Units to identify key initiatives like Clean Future program, its objectives and deliverables and drive the agenda through supplier partnerships
  • Understand the business strategy, short- and long-term volume forecasts for the materials to incorporate these inputs in the strategy to make it sharper and more effective
  • Give clear forecasts to the business based on market trends and analysis of factors affecting the market: provide rationale, commentary, and analysis to support forecasts
  • Provide support to Business Groups & Business Units for projects run by them on rolling out innovation, any product change/ formulation change, change in supply chain strategy/ sourcing unit relocation, processing configurations, demand forecast change, etc.
  • Manage supplies at the time of any failure on the ground (crisis management) to keep SUs running always, lead and manage effective on time communication/ updates to stakeholders

 

Team & cross functional collaboration:

  • Lead strategic projects in the portfolio, through cross functional teams including BG/BU, R&D, Finance, Legal, Supply Chain, Procurement, etc.
  • Closely liaise with S&I, Finance, Legal, R&D teams to achieve common goals & KPIs
  • Lead strategic initiatives on behalf of the overall Inorganics team
  • Directly contribute and manage the development of reporting team and other assistant managers in the Inorganics portfolio

 

Skills Required

  • Masters Degree in Commerce or Engineering, with a strong supply chain/ procurement experience.
  • Minimum 4 years’ experience as Procurement Manager
  • Very Strong Analytical, Interpretation and Communication skills: data/information analysis and presentation.
  • Comfort with systems: SAP CLM, USQS, SRS, HANA, Ariba, etc.
  • Complex stakeholder management experience: across ranks and functions
  • Knowledge and experience of forecasting, planning processes, market operations, supply chains
  • Prior experience in Home Care category preferred: understanding of HC products, consumer understanding, category priorities, etc.
  • Basic understanding of chemicals and home care formulation chemistry

About the Client

A leading FMCG organisation

Industry

FMCG, Pharmaceuticals

Experience Required:

6+ years

Additional Skills:

  • Stakeholder Management
  • RFQ Management
  • Contract Management
  • Hair Care Formulation
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Compliance Management
  • Procurement Manager
  • Forecasting
  • Procurement

No of open positions:

1

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