Manager - Indirect Procurement

3 weeks ago


Mumbai, India Colgate-Palmolive Full time

No Relocation Assistance Offered
# 157372 - Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

About Us

Would you like to be part of a team that is building a future to smile about? What about having the opportunity to collaborate with teams across the world, full of stimulating discussions, and making impactful contributions?

If this is how you see your career, Colgate is the place to be

Our dependable household brands, dedicated employees, and sustainability commitments make us passionate about building a future to smile about for our employees, consumers, and surrounding communities. We, at Colgate, take immense pride in our brand which fuels our workplace to encourage innovative thinking, champion experimentation, promote authenticity and thus contribute to our enduring success.

If you want to work for a company that lives by their values, then give your career a reason to smile...every single day

JOB OBJECTIVES 

Develop strategic plans, lead strategic negotiations and provide support/mentorship for sourcing activities of Supply Services including but not limited to Facility, MRO, Capital, other plant services

Key Accountabilities

Follow the Global Procurement governance in all projects, adhering to GPPM (Global Procurement Policy Manual). Follow the CRMC (Contract Risk Management Committee) process.

Keep close contact and develop strong partnerships with category collaborators to better understand the business needs.

Engage senior leaders when there is a need to bring up any issues.

Develop and implement any related process improvement in the category.

Participate in Industry events to bring new insights to the organization.

Be a key contributor to the company’s new ways of working initiatives

Handle ethical and professional relationships with vendors. 

Support global and regional initiatives identified in the annual goal alignment.

Support procurement risk assessment and risk mitigation plans.

Quickly support spot requests from the Divisional or Global organizations. 

Keep a proactive and dynamic attitude, quickly adopt the company's new ways of working and FEED principles (Focus, Empowered, Experimental, Digital). Take leadership on key initiatives.

Develop and lead the Supply Services team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

Achieve or exceed the savings and simplification goals.

Develop global strategy and long range plans for the categories under responsibility.

Update annual Category/Supplier Segmentation in the category.

Actively engage the global IP network for Supply Services, keeping them aligned, sharing best practices, supervising top projects, making sure the category governance, and escalation processes.

Engage frequently and optimally with key Corporate stakeholders in E2E Supply Chain organisation. Be aware of key stakeholder strategies and communicate back to the IP network/ department for awareness, alignment and shaping the IP plans and strategies.

Drive Innovation Initiatives for the categories under responsibility.

Lead SRM (Supplier Relationship Management) programs and initiatives as assigned.

Lead or support the annual benchmarking exercise with similar companies to Colgate and internally with the Divisions. 

Apply strategic sourcing principles and directly lead/handle procurement projects as needed

Support relevant IP transformational/reimagined initiatives as required

Actively support the Global Procurement Digital Transformation.

Perform vital processes/maintenance/approvals in the Ariba Procurement system. Ie. shopping carts, catalogs, etc. Increase compliance and usage of Ariba eSourcing. Approve shopping carts for the categories/country/hub, expedite emergency orders when vital. 

Lead and standardize e-Sourcing processes for the managed categories, build appropriate templates to facilitate this process.

Perform detailed spend analysis, and apply spend analytics best practices for the categories under responsibility, by sub-category/geographical regions/supplier, as a base to develop category strategies. Do frequent deep dives in the assigned categories.

Lead global contract negotiations, and track the effective contract execution and management in the assigned categories; making sure contracts are uploaded in the Ariba contract repository by the responsible party.

Support Tactical and Strategic sourcing initiatives as required

Support the CBS/POC processes to continue maximizing the efficiency of this team, ie vendor creation, improvement with supplier payments.

Track users Procurement compliance and bring up as vital

Lead and/or participate in supplier audits.

Perform the team development and management responsibilities, setting up clear annual objectives, tracking objectives throughout the year and provide effective/objective assessment on performance and development opportunities.

SKILLS EXPECTED

Effective Leadership to guide the direct reports 

Strong Business Analysis. Using business tools and information systems when solving problems and making decisions. Using data to support recommendations.

Negotiation skills. Planning and anticipation, demonstrates professionalism in all business settings and shows ability to control emotions, mannerisms, and communication style.

Partnership and Relationship building. Being a great teammate when interacting with stakeholders and peers. Able to manage relationships at all levels of the organization

Collaborative engagement with collaborators.

Project management skills.

Setting Priorities

Ability to work cross functional and cross regional.

Proficient in Microsoft and Google tools.

Procurement Experience (FMCG) 



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