Roles & Responsbilities:
- Develop alternate sources for critical materials.
- Strengthen supplier relationships while maintaining commercial discipline
- Negotiate prices, payment terms, lead times and other commercial conditions.
- Drive year-on-year cost reduction initiatives.
- Conduct price benchmarking and should-cost analysis where applicable.
- Negotiate annual price agreements and productivity improvements
- Control purchase price variance and identify cost-saving opportunities.
- Ensure purchase decisions provide the best total cost, not merely the lowest price.
- Coordinate closely with Production, PPC, Quality, Stores and Engineering.
- Identify, evaluate and develop new suppliers.
- Monitor supplier performance on Quality, Cost and Delivery (QCD).
- Conduct regular supplier performance reviews.
- Ensure suppliers adhere to committed delivery schedules.
- Approve/review purchase orders as per the organization's authority matrix.
- Ensure purchase orders are released on time.
- Monitor open purchase orders and overdue supplies.




- Follow up with suppliers for critical and shortage materials.
- Ensure proper documentation and compliance with purchasing procedures.
- Reduce inventory carrying cost.
- Review supplier lead times, MOQ and batch sizes.
- Work with SCM and Stores to improve inventory turns
- Coordinate with Quality for supplier quality issues.
- Ensure corrective actions are implemented by suppliers.
- Support development and approval of new suppliers.
- Closely monitor quality of new and developing suppliers, particularly when production volumes are increasing.
- Ensure purchasing priorities are aligned with the production plan and customer requirements.

Required Skills & Competencies
- Robust negotiation and commercial skills
- Good knowledge of manufacturing procurement
- Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
- Supplier relationship and supplier development skills
- Knowledge of MRP/ERP systems
- Good understanding of inventory manage

📌 Purchase Manager(Talegaon Dhamdhere) (Pune)
🏢 Shavish Group
📍 Pune