What you’ll do:

The position focuses on purchases for indirect material and services from major suppliers, strategic commodities, and multiple locations. The position manages the assigned indirect material supply base for multiple sites to ensure uninterrupted supply at optimum cost, quality, and service for each site. Must be dedicated to maintaining strategic relationships and creating new ones in the spend categories with increased prospect. Maintains an essential balance between supplier quality, delivery expectations, and cost reduction metrics for all indirect material purchases.

Critical Outputs:

A. Manages P2P cycle for indirect material, maintain supplier relationships and ensure uninterrupted supply at optimum cost, quality, and service for each site, opportunities for product/supplier improvement, while ensuring adequate service levels are met.

B. Acts and apply skillful negotiations (net-pay terms)



with internal and external suppliers; conducts problem resolution and settles disputes; develops win-win solutions and creates positive relations with tact and expert judgment.

C. Leverage Eaton procurement excellence tools in reporting Supplier Prices Increase Request and collaborate with Corporate/Business Category managers to leverage competitive suppliers

D. Vendor management and maintenance of new/change supplier add requests, efficiently follow-up with functional team to update integrated ERP for issuing amended POs on time in avoiding penalties to business

E. Prepare and release RFQ packages with approved suppliers in line with internal policies for identifying competitive suppliers and recommendation

F. Collaborating with functional team in implementing cost saving projects, reporting/creating visibility to business on strategic purchase v/s tactical to avoid ineffective process

G. Efficiently closing Open orders, resolving invoice issues, reducing invoice liability, business urgencies within SLA timelines

Essential Functions:

A. Manages

📌 Apprentice - P&E Indirect (Pune)
🏢 Eaton
📍 Pune