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Aditya Birla Group

Department Head – Central Procurement Cell

 Location : Maharashtra, India

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Job Description

Designation: General Manager
Updated: April 12, 2025
Location: Maharashtra, India
Organization: VFY
Job Description:

Job Purpose: To lead the end-to-end procurement, warehousing, and logistics operations for the Viscose Filament Yarn (VFY) business, ensuring timely availability of raw materials, chemicals, packaging, and critical spares. The role is central to driving supply chain agility, vendor development, cost optimization, and regulatory compliance, while supporting production continuity and aligning with dynamic global and domestic market trends.
 

Key Result Areas/Accountabilities:


Key Result Areas/Accountabilities

Supporting Actions

Ensuring Maximum Procurement of Molten Sulphur.
  • Maintaining ongoing communication with PSU S officers.

Lead plans for new source development and multiple source procurement (For Single Source) to reduce dependency and ensure continuous cost optimization.

  • Develop local vendors for imported items to manage costs. Cotton Linter Pulp.
  • Identify and explore new vendors and suppliers. Finish Oil
  • Meet potential vendors and hold discussions with relevant internal stakeholders.
  • Focus on Total Cost of Ownership and not Price.

Develop a robust system for vendor Contracting and Monitoring to ensure all compliances and avoid leakages.

  • Finalize and authorize selection of Vendors by floating Tenders as per Procedures and Parameters,
  • Review all Contracts to ensure inclusions of clauses for deviations from contracts and ensure Business approval.
  • Ensure statutory compliance from labour perspective.
Drive Digitalization in the procurement process to ensure standardization and efficiency in process.
  • Drive transfer from Paper based vendor management to online vendor management process.
  • Increase the adoption of OQMS and QFS to standardize the procurement process and ensure transparency.

Alternate Product Development to reduce cost.

  • Reviewing Corrugated items specifications and taking trials. Honeycomb instead of Corrugated Separators.
  • Reduction in weight of Cheese Tubes.
  • Explore Plastic Cones instead of corrugated Cones.
Collaborate in Strategic Sourcing. Standardisation of specifications of common items in Kalyan and Veraval.
  • For Items like Coning Oil, Cake Jackets, Hydrated Lime and Pumps to take trials and standardize specifications to get volume discount from common sources.
Enhance Sustainability i.e. Business more environmentally friendly.
  • Procurement of Goods (Equipment) and services for improved efficiency and optimizing natural resources.
Reduced Lead Time Relationship
  • 1. Identify process bottleneck and manage all operations (Shipping and Delivery) and Inventory more efficiently.
  • 2. Build and Maintain good relationship with Vendors to meet quality and safety standards.

People Development

  • Inculcate in team the group values/ vision/ mission & objectives
  • Motivate employees for stretch targets through individual performance goals. 3. Recommend trainings for skill development and appropriate rewards and recognition

Inbound Logistics Efficiency & Cost Optimization

  • Ensure timely, cost-effective, and reliable transportation of imported and domestic raw materials (e.g., pulp, coal, sulphur, chemicals) to support uninterrupted plant operations. (% On-Time Delivery (OTD) of materials
  • Average inbound lead time (import and domestic) / Freight cost per ton/km
  • Continuous innovation & digitalization initiatives to bring the logistics cost down or improve efficiency of the function.

Logistics Partner Management & Compliance

Manage logistics service providers to meet performance expectations, ensure regulatory compliance, and minimize risks associated with material movement.
Indicative KPIs:
  • OTIF (On Time In Full) performance of logistics partners
  • Number of non-compliance or safety incidents
  • Demurrage/detention costs incurred
  • % vendor adherence to contract SLAs

Warehouse Operations Efficiency & Optimization

Ensure effective management of warehouse operations to support seamless plant functioning, inventory accuracy, and material availability while optimizing space and cost.
  • Inventory accuracy (% variance between system and physical stock)
  • Warehouse space utilization (%)
  • Material handling efficiency (Average turnaround time per dispatch/receipt)
  • % adherence to FIFO/FEFO norms
  • Focus on Digital initiatives to optimize manhours, improve overall efficiencies, improve accuracies, and build analytics.
Qualifications:
MBA,MBA Operations

Minimum Experience Level:
13-18 Years

Report to:
Chief Financial Officer

 

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