Job Title: Director – Procurement, IndiaLocation: Madurai/Bangalore
Role Purpose:
To lead procurement across India and deliver sustainable business value through cost leadership, supply resilience, cash improvement, responsible sourcing, and solid governance. The role supports direct materials, indirect services, factory operations, green energy, and supplier compliance, while building procurement capability aligned with Coats’ growth, audit, digital, and sustainability priorities.
Principal Accountabilities:
Strategic Procurement Leadership
Define and execute India procurement strategy aligned with business growth, profitability, cash delivery, sustainability, risk management, and global procurement priorities.
Lead procurement across direct materials, indirect services, factory operations, green energy, supplier governance, and business-critical sourcing.
Build a balanced imported and domestic sourcing model to improve cost competitiveness, supply resilience, lead time, supply continuity, and business agility.
Translate business priorities into category plans,
sourcing actions, savings delivery, cash initiatives, supplier development plans, and sustainability roadmaps.
Partner with global category teams and business leaders to align local sourcing priorities with global strategy and enterprise value creation.
Category Strategy and Sourcing Excellence
Lead category strategy across direct materials, indirect spend, factory services, energy, MRO, labour contracts, utilities, logistics, and capital-related spend.
Manage sourcing for key materials including fibre, filament, dyes and chemicals, packing materials, technical textile inputs, and footwear component materials.
Drive structured sourcing through market intelligence, supplier identification, RFQ/RFP, negotiation, contracting, onboarding, and performance governance.
Deliver supplier substitution, localization, dual sourcing, value engineering, and alternate material initiatives to improve resilience and c
📌 Director - Procurement (India)
🏢 Coats
📍 India