Strategic Sourcing

MGS Commercial’s Operations Manager India is responsible for engaging and managing the key India Country Cluster stakeholders in each Segment of Mars Inc. Also he/she is responsible for execution of X-categories strategies for all Mars Segments in India reporting directly to Strategic Sourcing & Operations Director NSEAI. This person will execute cross segment specific strategies for the businesses as appropriate in regards to the Petcare, Mars Wrigley Confections and Multi sales segments in India. This position will be responsible for optimizing investments in terms of cost, quality, risk and availability as per the Mars commercial manual and its processes. This person will be responsible for ensuring supplier performance and acts as the first point of contact for suppliers and internal clients. Regional/NSEAI-Clusters Sourcing Manager for X-categories in order to implement locally the Global and Regional sourcing strategies for India in regards to the regional and global contracts by leveraging supplier relationships and strategic partnerships to drive standardization across regions and segments where feasible. He/She will develop an enterprise wide annual sourcing plan (ASP) for $50Mn in spend in Category with a documented 3 year portfolio strategy that is aligned to the business strategies of the Mars Segments including Petcare, Mars Wrigley Confections and Multi sales segments in India.

**What will be your key responsibilities?**:

- Responsible to execute an enterprise wide annual sourcing plan (ASP) for INDIA across X-categories including their respective subcategories not limited to the activities of value creation in terms of P&L impact, cost avoidance, contribution to the productivity programs of each Segment and cash, drive innovation through excellence in category management.
- Manage the X-categories team of 3 Associates responsible for Operations, including talent development, driving engagement and performance management.
- Collaborate with the NSEAI-Clusters Sourcing Manager to ensure INDIA cluster market knowledge is included in the Global and regional strategies and implement regional and global strategy MSSM process locally within the requirements of the local market conditions.
- Participate in the regional collaborative community within the Category that includes the Operation team members responsible for that category based within each of the APMEA clusters including China, ANZ, NSEA and India and MEA that together will deliver the ASP for each category by executing the activities of value creation as above (point 1)
- Performs spend analysis based on market and financial insights for the category and executes sourcing roadmap for 3 years focused on cost savings, process improvements and supplier management.
- Develop local market Category insights including benchmarking externally and importing best practices locally. Share best practices across the Sourcing-Operations Category teams in APMEA region.
- Responsible for the relationships with local suppliers to drive performance management, deliver continuous quality and cost improvement as well as develop supplier enabled innovations.
- Create and implement supply base strategy ensuring effective risk management through robust contracts and monitoring of financial and other KPIs. Ensure KPIs are recognized and approved by the Business and translated into P&L impact. Act as a key contact for supplier relationships. Ensure the supplier base is optimized to enable the implementation of Keystone which is an end to end procure to pay process in category management
- Establish and maintain relationships with Supply directors, Supply chain directors, Engineering directors, GM’s, CFO’s and other key stakeholders to ensure understanding of their needs and to facilitate the appropriate level of challenge for alignment with regional strategies. Provides market and financial insights and inputs to the internal financial planning and review processes.
- Develop & implement a continuous improvement action plan ensuring knowledge share with regional team. Monitor changes and adjust the plan as needed to sustain performance results.
- Ensure compliance with policies, systems and controls according to Mars standards. Communicates business risk & opportunity.

**What are we looking for?**:

- Bachelor degree in business, engineering, procurement, supply chain or related field
- Advanced degree is preferred
- Fluent in English
- 5 years of professional experience, ideally buying experience in X-Categories
- Demonstrated successful performance in role of similar scope and breadth.
- Previous management experience that includes Proven Leadership, Change Management and Project Management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to make sound decisions in complex and/or ambiguous business environments.
- History of building strong client and supplier relationships.
- Experience in India Market

**What can you expect from Mars?**:

- Work with over 130,000 diver