Procurement Category Manager

The Procurement Category Manager role is responsible to manage categories and the assigned procurement officers/executives for either direct spend or indirect. The responsibilities to ensure the category is functioning as per the KPI’s, manage and control high spend purchases, global procurement agreements, CAPEX and projects planning and budgeting. Also to manage and maintain the supplies of goods and services to the assigned category of spend.

Also the CM must lead the change and the strategic moves from analyzing the units spend and come up with recommendation for improving saving & supplier relationship.

Accountabilities Performance Measures

Vendor Management: update Approved list of suppliers, Preferred ones BU wise, Plant wise, Category wise, one time/spot suppliers & remove duplicate suppliers from oracle system. Consolidate and obtain approvals for the approved supplier rating for individual and category procurement personnel on a yearly basis.

Sourcing of new suppliers by CM against single source good negotiated price with short lead time.

Also sourcing new suppliers based on the specifications provided by the requisitions by researching the supplier market place, and obtaining samples to requesting departments for testing and approval.

Maintain contract tracking sheet: Prepare/Renew Contracts of key suppliers for the unit( Direct/ indirect )90 days in advance. Follow contract renewal SOP for Including E-auction suppliers. BU wise, Plant wise, Category wise.

Saving and Spend analysis: Prepare saving reports as per Business Units, considering all category-wise saving and analyze. Savings as per BU buyers & for BU E-caution. Prepare and analyze the unit spend, highlight opportunity and identify root cause for not achieving the target.