Assistant Vice President

Role Purpose

• The purpose of this role is to oversee the entire procurement function for the organisation while managing control of procurement of high value capital intensive goods.
• The incumbent will seek the best available quality for the lowest price and evaluate suppliers, negotiate contracts, and review product/service quality. 
• The incumbent is responsible for creating a list of OEMs with clear guidelines of procurement to be followed by the organisation.
• The focus of this role is to establish guidelines and a framework for vendor creation, assessment and development.

Key Responsibilities

• Delivery & Process Control – Collaborate and support the Lead - Purchase in the negotiations for advantageous costs, product with vendors/consultants. Evaluate procured materials, hardware, software etc. in collaboration with Quality teams. Ensure timely delivery of purchased stock. Ensure adherence to all SLAs and SOPs. Be a key escalation point of contact for functional/enabling teams and external suppliers providing administrative support to both. Act as the link between the corporate and the Project office, understand the material requirements as per the plan, vendors who will meet the requirements, provide the schedule to the vendors, prepare a contingency plan and ensure timely availability of material on Project.
• Vendor & Audit Management – Provide support on vendor management through accurate collection of data and mitigating risks which could lead to delay in execution. Collect information about vendors, procurement of goods, lead time and ensure quality of goods.
• Operational Metrics & Reporting – Capture procurement operational metrics and catalogue the sourcing. Create and validate records of items bought, costs, deliveries and product quality at the Project. Conduct a Project level analysis for the procurement function (PoS, PRs, and GRN etc.).
• People management – Accountable for metrics like attrition, recruitment for team members. Maintain a track of errors through statistical techniques and build experience database to aid the team. Maintain and enhance the functional expertise for the team basis regulatory/industrial offerings.

Indicative Experience and Exposure

• Diploma in Civil Engineering with 16-18 years experience in handling procurement function

or

• B.T ech / M.Tech with 13-15 years experience in handling procurement function
• Experience in handling the complete procurement function in a construction industry