Head Procurement - Sub Contracts

Function                                       Procurement

Role                                                Head Procurement 

Education                                     BE / BTech, MBA and Membership of various groups related to SCM (e.g. IIMM)

Professional Experience        15+ years in manufacturing industry preferably in Oil and Gas set.             

Key Deliverables

• SCM Policies
• Overall Procurement Strategy and Planning
• Procurement KPIs
• SCM Organization
• Cost reduction initiatives and Operational efficiency initiatives

Key relationships

Internal to organization:         Internal departments Employees

External to organization:        Customer, Vendors

Responsibilities

Prime Responsibilities

1. Overall in-charge of Procurement and is responsible for Strategic Sourcing, Procurement including delivery of materials at Site & MIS
2. Establish Procurement Policies
3. Accountable for Spend, Procurement process, ethics and Supplier relationships
4. Provide inputs for overall Procurement Strategy and Planning
5. Consolidate supply base and leverage enterprise volume to realize savings
6. Ensure supply base capable of providing quality and continuity of supply
7. Guide for developing systems and processes to carry out procurement planning and co-ordination effectively and efficiently
8. Establish the Procurement KPIs
9. Review Strategic Sourcing Plans and implementation activities
10. Influence and implement process improvements to deal with Suppliers across the organization
11. Anticipate changing business needs and carry out strategic planning to meet the project needs
12. Review the bottlenecks identified for ordering & delivery of various items for each project
13. Monitor Project Procurement Progress and MIS
14. Lead reviews of processes employed
15. Manage Staffing for Projects & resources
16. Identify opportunities to reduce costs by better procurement planning at project level

Shared cross-functionally

1. Build cross-functional relationships
2. Responsible for internal customer satisfaction
3. Intervene with the management of Suppliers and / or with Capability Centres/ SBUs to resolve issues to ensure deliveries as per project schedule

Key competencies – Functional:  

Need to have 

• Negotiation skills
• Commercial terms
• SCM processes
• Communication skills
• People management
• Supply Chain trends worldwide
• Strategic orientation
• Presentation skills 
• Analytical ability
• Networking
• Resource planning
• Improvement Orientation
• Customer service orientation

Nice to have 

• Project planning and scheduling
• Innovativeness