Lead end to end Solution Procurement across tendering and execution phases, directly influencing both revenue growth and margin enhancement while ensuring risk mitigation and operational excellence.
`Definition: Manager Solution Procurement
Drive sourcing, negotiation, and procurement of goods, materials, and services aligned to business requirements. Ensure robust supplier selection, cost optimization, and strategic sourcing. Accountable for procurement function performance including people, processes, governance, and budgetary outcomes. Act as a key contributor to business strategy and decision making.
Overall, Purpose of the Role:
Own and continuously evolve procurement strategy to deliver sustained cost competitiveness, supplier performance, and risk mitigation. Build high impact supplier partnerships and enable business success through agile, compliant, and value driven procurement practices. Collaborate cross functionally to deliver business objectives and strengthen competitive advantage.
What is the expected contributions of the position to the results of the organization)
Key Point Indicators / Responsibilities:
• Own purchasing and cost estimation across project procurement lifecycle
• Define and deploy best in class procurement strategy, processes, and governance
• Ensure alignment to business goals on cost, quality, delivery, and compliance




• Strengthen supplier ecosystem through strategic selection, evaluation, and development
• Drive risk identification and mitigation across supply chain
• Lead procurement contribution to annual planning and budgeting
• Own and continuously improve procurement policies and SOPs
• Drive digital procurement and process innovation initiatives
• Ensure strict compliance to CPP and internal controls
• Build team capability and leadership pipeline
• Deliver margin improvement targets and cost optimization
• Lead tendering support including cost validation and negotiations
• Manage high value negotiations during bidding and execution stages
• Lead supplier relationship management at senior level
• Drive governance through periodic reviews and dashboards
• Enable business growth by supporting order and sales targets
• Ensure excellence in global sourcing, imports, taxation, and logistics
General & Task Management
• Lead strategic supplier negotiations and contracting
• Develop effective sourcing strategies leveraging global markets
• Forecast market trends and proactively manage cost risks
• Drive supplier performance management and compliance framework
• Collaborate with engineering teams for value engineering and alternate sourcing

📌 Senior Manager - Procurement (Bengaluru)
🏢 Schneider Electric
📍 Bengaluru