Job Description:

Position: Manager/Sr. Manager - Procurement

Location: Ahmedabad

Experience: 8 - 15 Years

Industries: Chemical

Responsibilities
- Strategic Sourcing & Vendor Management
- Develop and execute category-wise sourcing strategies for monomers, acids, surfactants, silicones, oleochemicals and functional additives, balancing cost, quality, lead time and continuity.
- Identify, evaluate, qualify and develop domestic and international (China, Korea, Middle East, South-East Asia, Europe) suppliers; build a robust, multi-sourced vendor base for every critical input.
- Negotiate prices, payment terms, rebates, annual contracts and rate-locks; lead long-term agreements and tolling / back-to-back arrangements where advantageous.
- Maintain supplier scorecards covering quality, delivery, price competitiveness, responsiveness and compliance; drive structured supplier development and periodic business reviews.
- Technical /Chemistry - Led Raw Material Management
- Apply working knowledge of the chemistry of each raw material – reactivity, grade, specification,



substitutability and end-use impact – to make informed buying and approval decisions.
- Understand the upstream feedstock chain (crude / petrochemical / oleo derivatives) and downstream formulation requirements, anticipating how upstream price and availability movements flow into NBSL’s cost base.
- Work with R D and QC to qualify alternate grades and sources, evaluate cost-down substitutions without compromising performance, and resolve incoming-material quality issues.
- Stay current on raw-material market intelligence – capacity, plant turnarounds, anti-dumping duties, freight and feedstock indices – and translate this into proactive buying calls.
- Procurement Planning & Inventory Optimisation
- Convert the production / sales plan and R&D; pipeline into an accurate, rolling material requirement plan (MRP) across all SKUs and chemistries.
- Set and maintain re-order levels, safety stock and economic orde

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