Senior Manager-SCM

• Responsible for ongoing management of purchasing strategy and activity and for ensuring optimal supplier performance and price. Develop and implement a strategy to ensure the function is operating in line with the objectives of the business to add value, mitigate supply chain risk and deliver cost savings.
• Lead and manage a team of Buyers to deliver the appropriate support to the business to ensure objectives are met.
• Overall responsibility for Purchasing and Cost Estimating activities across the business.
• Ensure that purchasing strategies and processes are in place to meet business objectives and operational needs in terms of price, quality and delivery targets.
• Evaluate the challenges faced by the business and take action to mitigate risks and develop opportunities.
• Initiate and develop creative and innovative procurement processes.
• Responsible for managing relationships and negotiating with key suppliers at a senior and strategic level.
• Develop an overall vendor base which creates and sustains a competitive advantage utilising global market exploitation, leveraging spends and leveraging technologies.
• Develop, implement and maintain a supplier relationship and evaluation process to measure effective supplier performance and compliance.
• Set department objectives and monitor ongoing progress and performance.
• Provide leadership, coordination and coaching to the team, ensuring they are trained enabling them to achieve the operational and financial metrics within their areas of responsibility.
• Complete regular performance reviews, manage attendance, disciplinary issues and procedures as appropriate.
• Work collaboratively, negotiate and engage with key stakeholders to facilitate delivery and compliance with the purchasing strategy.

Location:-

• Gujarat, India.

Company Overview:-

A business partnership born out of friendship and mutual respect in the 1920s between Shapoorji Mistry Sr. and Mehervan Daruvala, the latter’s company Wilson Electric Works served as an electrical contractor for Shapoorji Pallonji Construction, working on some of India’s biggest commercial and residential projects.

As the relationship blossomed, Wilson Electric Works joined forces with Sterling Investments of the SP Group in the year 1973, to form the engineering behemoth that is Sterling and Wilson.

Starting from delivering large-scale projects in the middle-east in the 1970s, we quickly expanded our presence across Asia and subsequently across the globe, our projects spanning 8 different verticals.