About the Role

We are looking for a senior purchase professional to own the Purchase function end to end for packaging materials and consumables. This is not an order-punching role. You will own the category, the vendor base, the cost, the forecast, the inventory calls and the team. You will be the single point of accountability for making sure that no batch, no dispatch and no season is ever held up for want of packaging material, and that we buy it at the right cost.

Key Responsibilities

1. End to end ownership of the packaging and consumables category
• Own the full procure-to-pay cycle for all packaging materials: HDPE and COEX bottles, jerry cans, caps and closures (including CRC), induction seals and wads, printed labels and wrap-around labels, laminates and flexible pouches, mono cartons, corrugated boxes, WPP and BOPP bags, tin containers, drums, measuring cups, shrink film, tapes and liners.
• Own procurement of plant and factory consumables, MRO items, packing consumables, safety and PPE items and lab consumables.
• Take full responsibility for cost, quality,



quantity and on-time delivery of the category.

2. Forecasting and advance planning
• Convert the annual sales plan, monthly production plan and current product launch pipeline into a rolling packaging material requirement plan.
• Run the planning discipline: MRP, min-max levels, reorder levels, safety stock, MOQ and lead time norms, ABC and VED classification, seasonal build-up ahead of Kharif and Rabi.
• Pre-book capacity and material ahead of peak season and price cycles instead of reacting to shortages.
• Sit in the S&OP; conversation and flag material risk before it becomes a production stoppage.

3. Proactive inventory ownership and decision making
• Keep live visibility on packaging stock at every location and take the call on when to order, when to hold, when to expedite and when to stop.
• Drive down slow-moving, obsolete and label-change-affected packaging stock, and prevent it from building u

📌 Purchase Head (Bhopal)
🏢 Katyayani Organics
📍 Bhopal