The Indirect Sourcing Senior Buying Specialist will be responsible for indirect procurement for Cargill’s Animal Nutrition and Health (ANH) plants in India and Sri Lanka.
Key Accountabilities
- The role will include sourcing materials related to opex, commercial, marketing, HR, corporate material and services and small portions of chemicals used in the production site.
- The role will interact with internal customers (plant, production, commercial) and external sourcing vendors.
- Develop best value supplier - Sourcing, Developing and Onboarding.
- Identify Cost Saving Strategies through negotiation and implementation.
- Forecasting price and market trends to identify changes of balance in buyer-supplier power; conducting cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking.
- Execute medium and highly complex sourcing events.
- Drive the implementation of regional sourcing decisions.
- Sharing market Insights with relevant stakeholders for taking strategic decisions.
- Provide inputs to the regional category team for category strategy development and execution.
- Provide comprehensive understanding of regional stakeholders and procurement landscape.
- Monitor continuous regional supplier and stakeholder relationships.
- Follow established procedures to select suppliers for procurement of noncontracted materials, goods, services and supplies.
- Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering from National Institute of Technology.
- Minimum of two years of related work experience.
- Other minimum qualifications may apply.
Preferred Qualifications
- At least 4 years of experience in an indirect procurement role within the Fertilizer or FMCG or ANH or Agriculture sector.
- Solid negotiation skills, experience in vendor management and cost saving techniques.
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