Procurement Leader for Indirect Materials

6 hours ago


Haryana, India Lonza Full time

At Lonza, we are a global leader in life sciences operating across three continents. Our scientific solutions rely on talented individuals working together to devise innovative ideas that help businesses improve the world.

The role of Senior Strategic Buyer Indirect is crucial in providing leadership to procurement functions for Lonza India. You will lead a team of procurement specialists, ensuring timely provision of indirect materials, spares, and services based on global supplies and local vendors for CHI in India. Your support will be invaluable to business and global functions in India.

You will manage and support indirect spend management, coordinating day-to-day procurement activities across Lonza's sites in India. Ensuring business continuity and supply/availability of indirect materials and services for production by monitoring and improving supplier performance and managing supplier relationships is key. Develop and implement savings projects, aligned with Indirect Global Category Managers and local business stakeholders, to contribute to achieving business goals and savings targets. Stay aware of supply market dynamics to ensure Lonza's competitiveness.

In this role, you will provide procurement expertise in tendering, negotiation, contracting, and procurement systems. Key responsibilities include:

  • Leading a team of buyers and purchasing specialists, supporting them with supply market expertise and risk mitigation measures
  • Ensuring the effective provision of complex, strategic material and services to meet site manufacturing needs, based on existing global or regional contracts
  • Developing new supply options and managing negotiations with selected suppliers for the complex category and medium to smaller, non-strategic items to meet site needs
  • Leading negotiations for contracts in India for warehousing for Lonza India
  • Resolving timely supplies issues through experience of managing international logistical supply challenges and regulatory compliances
  • Managing relationships with agencies, consultants for business continuity, sustainability, expansion projects
  • Key interface with suppliers for all operational issues and responsible for supplier relationship and performance management of vendors
  • Supporting Global Category Managers with category strategy development
  • Implementing and executing indirect global and regional category strategies at site level
  • Providing procurement expertise in tendering, negotiation tactics, planning, and contracting
  • SUPPORTING global & regional sourcing efforts
  • Supporting the roll-out of new procurement policies/procedures and tools
  • Optimizing transactional costs & efficiency of procurement activities
  • Sharing best practices and synergies across sites
  • Standardizing specifications across sites and regions
  • Tracking country savings performance and identifying potential savings, risks & opportunities
  • Driving utilization of online catalogues, E-Auctions, and other leading edge sourcing tools (e.g. Ariba)
  • Delivering KPIs on savings for the team - bringing savings to Lonza by unit price reduction, commodity market performance, cost avoidance, volume rebates, value creations, etc.
  • Leading the procurement of significant technical equipment items
  • Compliance with standard operating procedures and creating guidelines locally to facilitate smooth procurement process. Adhering to strict audit requirements and maintaining records for statutory and IFC Audits
  • Guiding users across business and functions on standard procurement process and ensuring compliance
  • Knowledge management, database management of vendors based on spend categories
  • Onboarding suppliers (existing and new) to the Responsible Sourcing initiatives (Sustainability and Decarbonization) and following up via corrective actions plans to ensure suppliers' compliance with Lonza's supplier code of conduct and other commitments (e.g., child labor, climate, biodiversity, etc.)

Expected salary: ₹18,00,000 - ₹20,50,000 per annum, depending on experience and qualifications.



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