Specialist Purchase Hub - Indirects

As a Specialist - PO Partnering (Indirects), you will play a crucial role in handling procurement operations, ensuring seamless execution and compliance with organizational standards. Collaborating closely with suppliers & internal stakeholders by leveraging your expertise, you will ensure reliability in supplies and best in class Service levels.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Operational Support :
• Responsible for procurement processes for the assigned category  To ensure OTIF is as per agreed KPI's
• Responsible for availability of purchase orders in SAP either through auto or through assignment based on approved PR, Price & Supplier  To ensure PR are converted to PO as per SLA mentioned in KPI's
• Responsible for ensuring to get PO Acknowledgement along with Spec acceptance, dispatch dates & Quantity confirmations from supplier  To ensure adherence to post PO activity as per SLA in KPI's
• Responsible for Life cycle Management (LCM) of purchase order till delivery at respective plant gate as per agreed lead time  To ensure adherence OTIF target as per KPI's
• Post PO collaboration to ensure delivery dates are adhered & in case of exceptions co-ordinate with supplier & internal stake holders  To ensure correct delivery dates are updated in PO, after internal alignment.
• Responsible to ensure ASN adoption from suppliers  To ensure ASN compliance is as per agreed KPI's
• Responsible for logistics arrangement & PO provisions for delivery (Ex works) To Ensure that number of deviations in payment process are less than agreed KPI's
• Responsible to ensure Rush orders are processed on green channel To Ensure material is delivered as per business requirement.
• Stakeholder Collaboration :
• Responsible to work with internal stakeholders, including Procurement Strategic team and Planning / QC / Marketing to resolve issues related to pricing / lead time / QM Info / MPN etc issues  To ensure PO's are released within agreed KPI's.
• Responsible for post Delivery coordination with Plant partnering team for resolution of issues pertaining to supplier / logistics  To ensure material is released as per agreed SLA with Quality.
• Team Collaboration :
• Collaborate with team members of PO Operations / Plant Partnering, Dpex , QC / GQM etc  To ensure timely execution of procurement operations.
• Participate in team meetings and provide updates on assigned tasks on daily and weekly basis and make the list of exceptions  To ensure that all corrective actions are implemented.
• Process Improvement :
• Responsible to Identify and suggest opportunities for process optimization within the assigned category as applicable on the ways of working process so that automation / simplification / Elimination can be identified  To ensure improvement in service levels.
• Responsible for training to suppliers for various Dpex lead process enhancements in S2P tool  To ensure increased adoption of digital tools by suppliers.

Qualifications

Educational qualification & Minimum work experience :

Skills Required

Sap, Stakeholder Management