Category Buyer- Professional Services

**3.**

**ACCOUNTABILITIES & RESPONSIBILITIES**

ACCOUNTABILITIES

ACTIVITIES

**1**
- Category Action Plan For Procurement

Overall responsible for their respective categories and exhibit the NAYARA culture and policies to third parties & subordinates.
- **Manager for Professional Services, Consultant Appointment, Marketing/Promotional Spend, Renting & Leasing of Properties etc**
- Implement policies and reviews the same & make sure for compliance of policy for self and team member.
- Overall Incharge of NAYARA Ethical policy, anti-corruption policy for self and team.
- Responsible for implementation of SOP & e procurement tools for the category (Check, balance & control).
- Responsible for supplier management for category. Identify & implement parameters for supplier relation, supplier performance and exhibit the same.
- Responsible for supply base optimisation, risk identification and mitigation across sub categories

**Procurement strategy execution**
- Drive category strategy for professional services ensuring best practice purchasing in terms of cost, quality and efficiency.
- Leverage cross PL spend, pool synergies in obtaining lower costs and favourable terms of delivery.
- Develop & execute cost reduction plans for each of the categories.
- Consolidate cross PL commodity & Bought out item suppliers across categories while maintaining sourcing flexibility
- Prepare and drive new vendor identification basis cost, process innovation and volume requirements
- Gather commodity market knowledge and identify market trends and opportunities like inputs on hedging of commodities to Finance.
- Develop should cost and clean sheet model sub across categories

**Vendor management**
- Own the overall commodity supplier relationships and act as face of the organization.
- Lead negotiations with commodity suppliers and drive best price, quality and delivery

**Cost Optimisation**
- Optimize costs while meeting engineering and product requirements for both current products and new launches

**Capability development**
- Lead the team to drive procurement strategy and vendor management programs
- Assigning responsibilities and overviewing the team performance

**Other Responsibilities**
- Interaction with planning & analytics team to prepare spend analytics and demand planning. Review & Monitor data and present the same to management for respective categories.
- Prepare Procurement planning based on demand planning for category responsible and execute procurement planning.
- Prepare category segmentation and category strategies & execute the same.
- Prepare approved vendor list for category responsible and work to optimise the same.
- Prepare guidelines for sub category manager to prepare sourcing strategy & execute the same effectively.
- Prepare goal oriented negotiations strategy & lead the negotiations to achieve the same.
- Co-ordinate & represent the case to management at PCC/ MC level to get internal approval for smooth award of contracts.
- Overall responsible for manage & enforce contract for respective category of material as well as handle change order management for material contracts.
- Responsible for selection of buying channel and define clearly in sourcing strategy.
- Responsible for go to market approach for team members.
- Chairs pre-bid meeting with supplier along with end user & potential supplier
- Drive relationship with internal and external customers pertaining to category.Prepare category strategy, sourcing strategy, buying channel, negotiations strategy & execute the same to meet Organization & Dept. KPIs.**2**
- Develop In-house database

Establish accurate, reliable data base of suppliers / aggregator / service providers.

Track & monitor category spend, demand plan & notify deviations within the category.

**3**
- Key Performance Indicator.

Saving (p.a) within the category in line with category value delivery plan.

Trend in category material & services with respect to plan/past transaction/estimates.

Supply market intelligence

Development of new/alternate supplier for category to optimise supplier data base.

Monitor & Evaluate supplier performance and supplier score card

Drive supplier business review meetings, Supplier risk assessment and mitigation and create preferred supplier list

Internal and external stakeholder management, agility and TAT