- Respond to plant requests with urgency and ownership.
- Understand the market dynamics, economic situation, and business practices.
- Develop supplier network. Monitor and manage supplier performance for the assigned location(s)/portfolio and ensure continuity of supply/services for designated sites of responsibility.
- Work closely with planning and manufacturing to address potential supply shortage and production issues.
- Manage the local sourcing for the assigned plant(s) and regional sourcing portfolio in accordance with Global Procurement policies, systems and procedures.
- Manage team s shared mailbox.
- Execute Tail Spend strategy including basic tail management: create, maintain and approve suppliers as per stakeholders requests.
- Build and manage internal relationships with IC&D; Team,



Operations, Sales, Finance, Legal, Quality, and GRA. External relationships with suppliers/potential supply partners for smooth and productive execution of purchasing strategies.
- Understands and is updated on business needs and evolution regarding product changes, forecast and critical product demand.
- Resolve issues with suppliers regarding delivery, quality, supply problem, pricing and issues with blocked invoice for payment.
- Creates leveraged agreements as appropriate.
- Calculates and reports accomplishments in all appropriate systems.

📌 COE Analyst-1 (Secunderabad)
🏢 International Flavors u0026 Fragrances (IFF)
📍 Secunderabad