Purchasing Manager
Iochpe-Maxion
- Pune, Maharashtra
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Sourcing for RM & BOM material, all capital purchases must meet corporate standards.
- Monitoring & controlling of Purchases capital equipment, services, chemicals, Maintenance supplies, packaging materials and consumables as required by various departments
- Packing must meet customer specifications. MRO & Construction must meet quality standards.
- Ensure the correct level of quality materials are ordered and in stock to meet company requirements, while achieving aggressive and dynamic targeted inventory levels.
- Establish and develop suppliers working towards long term relationships with suppliers. Perform supplier performance evaluations.
- Work with regional Corporate Sourcing to ensure a unified effort is in place to achieve key objectives.
- Manages online internal approval levels of requisitions.
- Ensure compliance of all Maxion Wheels procurement policies and procedures, and respond to and correct, any audit finding, in the most effective and efficient manner.
- Uses corporate standards, multi-plant volume and ISO/TS approved vendors.
- Source new products and provide vendor technical support.
- Negotiate blanket/contract agreements whenever possible. Provide purchasing related information and support to other departments as needed. Support continuous improvement activities.
- Support in Kaizen, TPM, NWT, IATF, OHSAS, EMS, LPA, PRA, Tear Audits , Customer Audit points, Actions against routine tasks of Purchase. Ensure timely Supplier Audits
- Ensure saving as per AOP Targets
- B.E. - Mechanical and master's degree in business or equivalent is preferred
- At least 15 years of experience in material management/strategic purchasing
- 5-6 years supervisory experience
- Strong English communication skills
- Ability to work in Matrix Organization
- Strong negotiation skills
- Advanced Excel skills
- Strong analytical and quantitative competencies
- Understands complex concepts and the relationships between issues or problems
- Effectively communicates across organization and is confident in interacting with senior leadership team
- Possesses intellectual agility; readily accepts the challenges of unfamiliar tasks