Category Buyer

1 week ago

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd Full time

About Function/Department

Business & Commercial (B&C) is the procurement function of Bennett, Coleman and Company Ltd. This is a central team role requiring coordination with interactions with users and suppliers spread geographically having significant impact on the overall organizational goals.

About the Position

Role holder will work towards obtaining specific BOQ's (bills of quantities) from user team; assist in development of procurement plan, liaise with vendors, finalize payments and implementation schedule with vendors, expedite order delivery with the objective of ensuring implementation of projects with adherence to targeted quality, cost and schedule parameters.

Areas of Responsibility

Procurement Planning: Work with a range of internal stakeholders to clearly identify procurement needs, oversee timelines and budget and ensure adherence to savings & other strategic objectives. Initiate negotiations and vendor relationship management. Optimize overall costs and focus on enhancing operational efficiencies. Negotiations: Price discovery, external benchmarking and negotiating the most competitive prices, SLAs and contract terms. Identifying clear external benchmarks and collating the details of various cost components. Consistently improving cost competitiveness of the suppliers. Vendor Management: Prepare RFI/RFQ Management, identify potential suppliers and contract management & governance, Manage vendor accounts reconciliation. Develop a clear understanding of suppliers' strategic strengths, supplier performance evaluation, expand supplier network and maintain consistent vendor performance and engagement. New product development & trials
execution Operations Management: Manage conflicts, resolve escalations, ensure user satisfaction, ensure documentation compliant with Internal & External Audit standards, review delivery timelines, SAP operations (MM module). Inventory management & optimization. Ensuring compliant import operations Logistics: Confirm order with vendor; prepare internal approval note; coordinate sign off on the internal approval note; finalize the legal terms and conditions with the vendor; liaise with finance for financial transactions and legal for contracts; organize kick off meeting between supplier and modernization for handover on delivery and execution; resolve escalations by modernization (user)
with respect to supplier in order to ensure installation of equipment to user satisfaction Contract Management: Review status of vendor deliveries against orders released, supervise timely follow-up with vendors, monitor changes in user requirements during implementation and communicate appropriately to vendors, coordinate with Finance for vendor payments to ensure timely delivery of orders and execution of projects as per project plan.

Educational Qualifications Required

B.E. / B.Tech. + MBA

Relevant Experience


• 3 - 5 years of experience in Procurement function specifically Capital Expenditure, Vendor Management.

• Focus on IT/Telecom category

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