Global Sourcing Solutions

**Job Description**:
Position Title

Consultant - Global Sourcing SolutionsFunction/Group

Global Sourcing Solutions

Location

Mumbai

Shift Timing

3:30 PM to 12:30 AM

Role Reports to

GIC Indirect Sourcing Manager- Remote/Hybrid/in-Office

Hybrid

**ABOUT GENERAL MILLS**

**We make food the world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. **With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Haagen-Dazs, we have been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell.

How we make our food is as important as the food we make. Our values are baked into our legacy and continue to accelerate.

General Mills India Center (GIC) is our global capability center in Mumbai that works as an extension of our global organization delivering business value, service excellence and growth while standing for good for our planet and people.

We advocate for advancing equity and inclusion to create more equitable workplaces and a better tomorrow.

**JOB OVERVIEW**

**Function Overview**

The GIC Supply Chain team manages end-to-end operations, encompassing planning, sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, and analytics. They strategically plan to meet market demands, optimize sourcing, ensure efficient production, and oversee the seamless movement of goods from production to delivery. The team employs advanced analytics throughout these processes, fostering adaptability and operational excellence. This collaborative approach ensures a well-coordinated supply chain that aligns with both organizational goals and dynamic market conditions. Link

**Purpose of the role**

As the Indirect Category Buyer, you will be responsible for implementing the procurement strategy for Data & Technology (D&T) category. You will implement category strategies, manage supplier relationships, contracts, payment terms, and drive cost savings for the organization in alignment with the US-led strategy.The Sourcing Buyer will leverage a consultative framework to prepare and deliver actionable insights to indirect sourcing operations leaders in order to tease out Capital Efficiencies, Savings /Cost avoidance Opportunities. Together, these insights will be leveraged as input to build a US led category strategy ,expose opportunities to drive incremental spend under management, deliver incremental Total Value, expose operational cost avoidance opportunities and mitigate business risk.

**30%of Time**:

- Supports the development of short-term and long-term category specific strategies that align with the Company goals for reducing costs and meeting financial expectations while partnering on the management of vendor relationships. Drive consolidation of spend and seek out synergies across Business Units where applicable.
- Preparing and maintaining reports, analyze data to tease out critical insights and provide recommendations and insights to sourcing leadership and other stakeholders.
- Innovate & provide expertise /insights in developing/ implementing the new capabilities
- Work closely with the COE Leads, Sr. Sourcing Managers & Directors to understand their category needs and ensure continued value delivery
- Use the business problems to build innovative proof of concepts
- Conduct/Lead supplier selection and evaluation with the end goal of working with best-in-class suppliers who provide quality goods and services at competitive prices.
- Manage contracts MSA’s, contract negotiation, and contractual dispute resolutions as defined by our ways of working and strategy set by the Category Leader. Pre-negotiate and incorporate terms, conditions, key performance indicators, and service level metrics into vendor contracts.
- Manage supplier relationships effectively by tracking their performance regularly and participate in their business reviews to improve /maintain their performance.
- Commercialize partnerships with agreements that leverage GMI’s scale and external partner capabilities to deliver a competitive advantage for GMI.
- Launch tenders /RFI’s,RFP’s ,Auctions as needed within the General Mills sourcing policy and conduct negotiations with suppliers with continuous alignment with relevant stakeholders..
- Ensure compliance to the General Mills Sourcing Policy
- Ensure GMI’s Code of Conduct and Ethics policies are foremost in all supplier interactions.
- Know and Follow the General Mills Sourcing Strategy

**70% of Time**
- Manage projects in the Data & Technology (D&T) space including execution of category strategy, supplier selection, maintaining vendor relationships, negotiating vendor contracts within predefined ranges, track supplier performance.
- Closely collaborate with category managers and D&T stakeholders to execute a multi-year category strategies for D&T
- Negotiate favorable agreements that deliver capabilities and solutions that meet GMI requirements and achieve competitive pricing with long-term price protection
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