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 current 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

- Strong negotiation and commercial skills

- Positive 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 management

- Ability to handle pressure and production-critical shortages

- Strong communication and coordination skills

- Cost-conscious and result-oriented approach

- Leadership and team-management capability

Qualification & Experience

- Qualification: Graduate in Mech and or Elect Engineering

- Experience in purchasing/procurement, preferably in a manufacturing or Electrical environment.

- Experience in handling direct materials, components, job work/subcontracting and supplier development would be desirable.

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