Materials Department Head

Key Responsibilities:

• Contract Formulation: Formulate strategies for long and short-term contracts for materials, ensuring compliance with the annual budget.
• Purchase Planning: Develop purchase plans and budgets by interacting with process owners, ensuring timely submission of material requirements to the Central Procurement Cell (CPC).
• Optimization of Procurement: Ensure timely procurement of all items at an optimum price to achieve budgeted production targets.
• Process Improvement: Review and refine commercial processes related to purchase requisitions, approvals, tracking, vendor registration, and database management.
• Vendor Coordination: Coordinate with CPC for timely placement of orders, resolve queries, and conduct vendor meetings for better quality of services.
• Inventory Management: Monitor inventory levels, plan and strategize management of project equipment, bulk materials, fuels, and disposal of scrap and waste.
• Compliance and Legal: Ensure 100% legal compliance, particularly for hazardous category scrap, and benchmark inventory levels with group units.
• Cost-effective Purchasing: Drive cost-effective purchasing through value engineering, benchmarking, and negotiation strategies.
• Risk Management: Define checks and balances to minimize risks from vendors, develop norms, and ensure compliance with regulations.
• Vendor Evaluation: Rigorously evaluate vendors before awarding contracts, track vendor performance, and refine contractual clauses for performance standards.
• Statutory Compliance: Ensure timely availability of all services needed for plant operations, maintenance, and housekeeping, in compliance with statutory requirements.
• Continuous Improvement: Implement CSM procedure and guidelines, foresee market factors impacting availability and cost, and formulate mitigation plans.
• Quality Control: Ensure all required parameters are met, understand component costing, and provide inputs for refinement.
• Team Management: Mentor and develop the team, ensure adherence to safety standards, and drive improvement projects and initiatives.

Location: Pan India

Experience: 15+years