Buyer - Biw

**Responsibilities & Key Deliverables**
- Active sourcing to map completion for entire commodity business.Devise long term and short term sourcing strategies considering current and future business needs and Industry dynamics.Carrying out negotiations with suppliers for own commodity and facilitating own team.Achieve cost saving targets by driving negotiations.Empanelling vendors as per the targets.Vendor on board by identifying suitable supplier panel, techno commercial synthesis and negotiations.Bringing in industry intelligence in own domain and keep up with the technology trends in own domain.Presenting key updates, issues to senior management and seek support for de bottlenecking wherever required.Supporting Supplier Business Capability Building initiative for own commodity.Anticipate business risk associated with own commodities and relevant industries and propose mitigation plan.Actively collaborating with multiple stakeholdersSSU Leadership, Accounts, Business Excellence, Plant Heads, Spares Sourcing Head, Strategic Vendors, Government Agencies to resolve/anticipate issues and ensure smooth operations.Participating in various SSU forums to project business indicators, concerns, highlights of performance and give inputs to stakeholders /decision making.Being a role model for Ethics and Integrity as well as demonstration of Sourcing behaviours.To be amiable, professional and approachable at all times

**Preferred Industries**

**Management Consultin**

**Education Qualification**
- MBA; Bachelor of Engineering

**General Experience**
- 12-18 yrs experience in Strategic Sourcing

**Critical Experience**
- Commodity buyer of high value commodity with exposure to Multi commodity.Having Achieved cost saving targets by driving negotiations.Minimum 12+ Years of Experience, largely in Sourcing.industry intelligence in own domain and keep up with the technology trends.Exposure to Carry out negotiations with suppliers for own commodity and facilitating own team

**System Generated Core Skills**
- Analytical Thinking
- Service Orientation
- Influencing Skills
- Project Management
- Project Planning & Execution
- Risk Analysis
- Conflict Management
- Sourcing
- Industry Analysis
- Negotiation
- Team Management
- Cost Management
- Cost Optimization
- Vendor Empanelment
- Vendor On-boarding
- Cost Benefit Analysis
- Techno-Commercial Negotiations
- Industry Intelligence
- Trend Analysis
- Capability Development
- Strategic Sourcing
- Capability Building
- Risk Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Performance Analysis
- **System Generated Secondary Skills**
- Relationship Management
- Supply Chain Management (SCM)
- Vendor Management
- **Job Segment**:Engineer, Engineering