
Manager - Buyer
- Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Cost and Contract negotiations and Procurement
- Keeping abreast of procurement market and industry insights and trends
- Management Information Reporting
- Preparation and submission of Budgets & Forecasts for the team
- Review of Finance related Policies (Capex, P2P etc) and implement necessary controls
- Continuous improvement of Procurement Processes
- Regulatory Compliance under applicable laws
- Partner with the business and functional leadership to understand short, medium requirement of goods and services that need to be procured.
- Assess and assist in the mitigation of vendor risk.
- Ensure appropriate contract structures / types, pricing models, vendor incentive models, service level agreements, performance indicators and cost models are applied consistently across vendors.
- Partner with internal and external legal counsel to ensure proper forms of Agreement are utilized, contractor conformance with the terms and conditions of the Agreements, and refinement of Agreements as required.
- Cost negotiations and procurement, Spot negotiation on smaller and day to day purchases of services or any other procurement activities like infrastructure, facilities, IT, HR etc. Execute end to end RFQ/ RFP/ procurement process.
- Initiate local or alternate procurement activities.
- Drive commercial value from our simple transactions including savings, cost avoidance and added value.
- Create & drive effective metrics and data to measure the value delivered through commercial negotiations.
- Support the development, agreement and communication of M&G Global procurement policy and processes.
- To demonstrate a positive risk, compliance and control culture through the identification, assessment, monitoring and management of risks and issues within the business area, alongside ensuring timely and appropriate resolution of control weaknesses, actions and failures that arise