Urgent) Manager-Supply Chain Management

Job Description

The Supply Chain Management Manager is responsible for creating orders, establishing, developing, and positioning suppliers to support a high service level. This position will play a critical role in achieving cost containment, inventory and supplier performance goals by negotiations, contract management, order creations for plant. Should be able to manage the inventory on the latest concepts of should costing, transparent costing terms.

Procurement Processes:

- Order creation- SAP
- Vendor evaluation- Fabrication/ Assly
- Pricing, Negotiation- Opex and Capex
- APN/ NFA creation
- Procurement Modelling for MGS
- E-auction awareness
- Group TC policies compliance
- SAP and Ariba awareness

Leads in developing RFQ evaluation (quality/price) models to assess the bids submitted in a competitive exercise offers the best

Collaborates with Head SCM and project team to make annual budget and develop complex contractual pricing arrangements requiring sophisticated contracting techniques to share cost risk or economic price adjustment clauses for adjusting labour and material costs where price cant be reasonably predicted at the time of negotiation.

Monitors the procurement operations including tendering processes and evaluation, contractor appraisal, evaluation and negotiation of offers, management of the contract and contractor, legal considerations and payment conditions, risk assessment.

Project Management:

Participates in discussions with Project Management & Engineering services functions in developing initial tender-stage project schedule based on the project execution strategy in agreement with all functional groups to formulate risk management plan.

Participates in discussions with Project Management & Engineering services functions to formulate the construction & commissioning milestones & directs subordinates to prepare long term & short-term procurement plans in line with milestones.

Relationship Management

Develops and maintains effective strategic relationships with international suppliers, OEMs, contract counterparties, research institutes to develop Market Intelligence.

Collaborates with local, national, and international defence and aerospace companies & other organizations to develop & maintain network.

People Development

Leads in building and maintaining a high-performance culture through effective performance management, communication, and mentoring.

Provides clear leadership and promote and foster a team culture consistent with the organizational values.

Directs for developing plans for the recruitment of skilled executives, establishing appropriate remuneration levels and performance-based conditions, training & development of employees.

- Analyse supply chain operations, performance KPIs, cost metrics and other related subject areas and report on supply chains performance on monthly basis.
- Implementation of modern Inventory Management, Quality Management & Management Information practices.
- Develop, monitor, and control annual budget in terms of employees, equipment and materials to meet functional objectives.
- Strategize, plan, monitor and control the EXIM (Including Taxation) and Domestic logistics operations to ensure timely availability of raw materials at units and timely dispatches of finished goods with maximum customer satisfaction at optimum cost.

Desirable

- Demonstrated experience dealing with suppliers, especially defense commodities (propellent, explosives etc).
- Excellent written and verbal English communications skills
- Work experience in a multicultural and changing environment
- Hands on experience with SAP Ariba platform
- Defense industry exposure.
- Good experience with Logistics, freight forwarding will be an added advantage
- Sub-contracting and vendor development

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