Job Description
Job Title: Category Buyer, Logistics
Location: Mumbai, same as L&D located there.
Responsibilities and Scope:
The Category Buyer is responsible for assigned category or region/country within APAC, more specialized in India Continental. Responsibilities include supplier scouting, selection, supplier management, price & contract negotiation and working capital management. The Category Buyer will develop and deploy sub-category strategy in specified region/country. She/He will be the owner of assigned category or region/country cost reduction goals.
Key Responsibilities:
- As sub-category owner, develop category strategy for the responsible categories
- As supplier owner, manage the relationship with suppliers properly and perform as the single contact window of supplier in region
- As operation Buyer, do daily operation (PR to PO) in compliance with regional or country wise category strategy requirements
- Negotiate the long term and spot time contract with suppliers, manage the contract lifecycle and update before contract expired
- Manage supplier performance, including project-based cost, on time delivery, quality and service
- Drive year-over-year improvement in field spend through supplier negotiation
- Drive year-over-year improvement in working capital through supplier DPO management
- Drive solution standardization and significantly drive repeat buy percentage increase
- Implement E2E process from procurement perspective
- Ensure pre-bid support and execution with high efficiency to serve business delivery and growth
- Monitor and support procurement productivity improvement projects complete on schedule
Qualifications:
- Bachelor degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management or related Business Degree.
- 5 years sourcing/procurement experience, preferred in logistics industrial
- Excellent negotiation skills, familiar with contracting
- Familiar with cost reduction methods and tools
- Good interpersonal skills to enable and manage relationships internally and externally
- Adaptable towards a rapidly changing environment
- Experience in working in multi-cultural teams
- Experience in working in multifunctional development teams
- Preferably experience in an innovative but also cost-driven environment
- Honest and Integrity
- Good at English writing, reading
- Willing to travel
