Assistant Manager - Contracts & Procurement

Job Location:Mumbai

About Lodha Ventures An Abhinandan Lodha Enterprise:(https://www.lodhaventures.com/):

Lodha Ventures, an Abhinandan Lodha Enterprise, is a formidable collective of some of the best-of-breed, high-growth new-age businesses. We back highly ambitious ideas and turn them into category-disrupting businesses built to stand the test of time.

We are a launchpad for nascent businesses that have the potential to become a part of our eclectic mix of businesses. We deploy unlevered and patient proprietary capital with a focus on value creation, unconstrained by the pressures of redemption.

Our decentralized portfolio operates with independent CEOs and empowered leadership teams, fostering a performance-driven culture that sparks value creation. This ecosystem cultivates consumer-centric brands at the forefront of innovation, always pursuing excellence. Anchored in sound business practices, our businesses are poised for greatness, shaping industries as they grow.

About The House of Abhinandan Lodha:

We are the House of Abhinandan Lodha. We are a consumer tech brand that disrupts by leveraging technology to make land more accessible, flexible, and secure. We're breaking old traditions and bringing land ownership into the 21st century, making an age-old asset young again, for now and for generations to come. We are on a mission to create intergenerational wealth for our consumers. We are not just reinventing land buying. We are taking every transaction, every experience, every ownership with it into the new. New Generation Land is how we bridge the gap and bring people closer to their dreams.

Our Corporate Philosophy: We believe in a consumer's right to reimagine land buying as a positive and simple process. We believe in befriending the planet by giving back what we take it from it. Starting from our blueprint level.

We believe in complete transparency in every process. Be it a homeowner, an investor or even a real estate professional.

For HoABL, it is not just a piece of land, we believe in the Peace of Land. All our curated developments will be self-sustaining ecosystems built and maintained using sustainable forms of development. Transparency and fairness are the core of all our dealings with local people and resources.

HoABL is aware of its ecological, economic, and social responsibility. We ensure the responsible use of natural resources and act in a socially responsible way. We use technology to reinvent the way land is experienced. By digitising its ownership. By using complete transparency in all aspects. By making investments simpler and more accessible and offering lifestyle enhancing amenities that will be a game-changer in the industry.

Our Vision:To make land amazing again, by democratising its ownership. We do this by making it a younger, nimbler and a more viable asset for Indians everywhere.

Our Mission:We use technology to reinvent the way land is experienced. By digitising its ownership. By using complete transparency in all aspects. By making investments simpler and more accessible. By covering amenities that will reimagine an industry

About the Role:

The incumbent will be based at Head office in contracts and procurement vertical and shall be responsible for formulating Contracts, Award of Contracts, Administer the contracts and Closure of contracts.

This involves negotiating with vendors and suppliers, drafting agreements, contractual correspondences, managing claims and extra works, periodic monitoring of billing & material reconciliations. The incumbent will also be responsible for developing regional resources from Process and Knowledge perspective.

Key Responsibilities:

• Reviews requirements placed by other teams (technical/ material/ service) and develops RFP/tenders using available templates.
• Checks for available vendors from empaneled/ internal list.
• Identify and PQ new vendors and update the empaneled list.
• Consolidates and analyzes submitted quotations.
• Validates and cross-checks prices quoted by vendors.
• Help regional teams to shortlist vendors basis the quotation rates, reviews, and recommendations by HO/ peers.
• Conducts reference checks for vendors- profile of the company, quality of the contractor's works in the market, visiting site of contractor/vendors.
• Recommends to HO for obtaining approvals.
• Drafts agreements/contracts basis base rate,
• Standardize GCC, SCC and other related documents.
• Releases Work orders to the vendor in a predefined template
• Generates purchase orders to vendors.
• Ensures contractors provide the documents as required viz. Bank Guarantee/Warranties
• Ensures contractors follow statutory regulations as required by law.
• Ensures material is delivered as per pre-defined schedule.
• Acts as an arbitrator between the contractor & project team to resolve Issues related to the interpretation of contracts by clarifying the intent of the clause in the contract to both parties.
• Maintains regular contact with contractors.
• Prepares consolidated rate sheets of items/awards.
• Documents and keeps track of reviews for each vendor/ consultant for future reference.
• Complies with company-defined guidelines and processes.
• Adheres to project timelines.
• Identifies processes/procedures in own work area that need improvement.
• Recommends process improvement ideas to streamline efficiency/ costs/ productivity.
• Undertakes process improvement activities in own work area

Qualification:

• B.E./B.Tech Civil Engineer
• Additional Qualification Preferred: PG: NICMAR
• 3-5 Years of Experience