Head of Procurement – Edible Oil/Beverage Industry

Tasks

• Act as procurement business partner to cross functional teams
• Build and lead procurement organization
• Build supplier ecosystem
• Define procurement strategy
• Deliver cost savings through negotiations
• Develop procurement negotiation analytics and category management capabilities
• Drive cross site sourcing efficiency
• Drive supplier innovation quality improvement and sustainability
• Enforce ethical sourcing and compliance
• Escalate site level supply and supplier issues
• Execute category strategies
• Implement total cost of ownership
• Improve data discipline vendor master integrity and reporting
• Lead digital procurement transformation
• Maintain procurement policies and SOPs
• Optimize supplier footprint
• Oversee contract management and audit readiness
• Own sourcing governance from strategy through contracting
• Partner with finance on P L impact and budget control
• Perform spend analytics and price benchmarking
• Run supplier evaluations and scorecards
• Support zero based budgeting and working capital optimization

Perks/Benefits

• N/A

Skills/Tech-stack

Audit Readiness | Capital optimization | Category Management | Commercial negotiation | Compliance Management | Contract Management | Cost Reduction | Cost modeling | Cost of ownership | Data Quality | Ethical sourcing | Master Data | P L Analysis | Power BI | Price Benchmarking | Process Automation | Procurement policies | S&OP | SAP S4HANA | Sourcing Governance | Spend analytics | Strategic procurement | Supplier Scorecards | Supplier management | Total cost of ownership | Vendor Master | Vendor Master Data | Working Capital | Working capital optimization | Zero-based budgeting