Associate – Procurement (Purchase)

Ahmedabad, INDIA | Position Code: 1214AA

About the Role:

What you’ll deliver:

• Work to team plan & deliver your tasks on-time & within budget
• Evaluate your work progress to the plan and make required course corrections
• Compliance to company code of conduct in all purchase & store activities and immediately report non-compliance
• Support Purchase and store processes for consumable, capital goods and services
• Support “Request for Quotation” “Request for Proposal” documentation
• Support supplier selection, competitive bidding & offer evaluation process
• Support supply continuity risk mitigation framework
• Support goods receipt, store and inventory management framework
• Support Supplier compliance with statutory and customer requirements
• Optimise inventory and spend with demand forecast
• Support, Purchase orders, purchase agreements and rate contracts frameworks
• Work with Supply Chain and Finance function to fulfil organisation needs and swift payments
• Swiftly resolve non-conformance to minimise impact on project objectives
• Deliver your work ‘right first time’ & ‘on time in full’
• Understand project goals and objectives and complete your task within budget
• Follow processes, standard operating procedure (SOP) and apply best practices in your work
• Follow function’s performance and improvement processes in your work
• Apply lean & 5S visual work environment principles in your work
• Align your work to meet your KPIs to achieve your growth goals
• Evaluate your KPI trend and implement required course corrections
• Utilise learning material & proactively participate in discussion forums
• Make your learning program to enhance your skills & knowledge & competency
•  Make & implement your performance & economic growth plan

What you’ll need:

• Passion for our Vision: Transform Manufacturing
• 2+ years of total working experience in related domain
• In-depth domain knowledge & competency gained at an education institution or self-learnt
• Proficient Knowledge & Competency of purchase & store organisation with P&L responsibilities
• Proficient Knowledge & Competency of purchase terms and conditions, bidding process & contracts
• Good analytical and negotiation skills in order to get the best price and value products and services
• Proficient Understanding & Competency of application taxes, customs duty & statutory compliances
• Development Knowledge & Competency of high verity low volume store & inventory management
• Proficient understanding & competency of quality management systems and ISO9001/AS9100 standards
• Proficient understanding & competency of lean & six sigma principles
• Proficiency in engineering fundamentals and emerging technologies
• Proficient ability to identify risks, manage them and implement mitigating actions
• Flexibility to go beyond normal work hours in time of need and support other functions

Must have:

• Attitude to positively work with cross functional teams
• Respectful behaviour and willingness to adapt company code of conduct
• Attitude to learn, do your best work and grow
• Initiative and courage to explore new ideas and learn from the mistakes
• Perfectionist approach and meticulous to the finest detail in everything that you do
• Clear and concise written & verbal English language communication as well as presentation skills
• Prompt and on-time communication of operational matters
• Proficiency in Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams and other MS Office software
• Readiness work in different shifts to support customers in different time zone

Nice to have:

• Experience in Engineering Purchase and Supply chain
• Experience of working with leading ERP software like – Epicor / SAP / NetSuite
• Great sense of humour