Key Result Areas/Accountabilities

Supporting Actions

- Planning
- Giving input for formulation of strategies for long term and short-term contracts for electrical, equipment and services in line with annual budget.
- Preparing Purchase Plan and Budget by interacting with the process owners and decision makers for planned consumption of consumable items & equipment.
- Giving inputs for formulating strategies for negotiation with both national and international bidders.
- Foreseeing seasonal events to identify market factors which may impact availability and/ or cost of materials and services and developing mitigation plans.
- Operational Excellence
- Arranging timely procurement and supply of all electrical items including spares, consumables and ROL of specified quantity and quality at an optimum price to achieve budgeted production targets .
- Implementing SOPs for shutdown, inbound logistics, inventory management
- Implementing Delegation of Authority (DOA) in the entire process chain for materials from purchase requisition up to approvals.
- Monitoring and taking proactive actions for ensuring timely availability of automation equipment, spares, consumable items, manpower and services required for operations and shutdowns
- Implementing Just in time (JIT) supply for automation items
- Arranging for timely receipt of automation & IT items including consumables and spares
- Implementing maintenance of inventory level for all critical items and partnering corrective action in case of deviation.
- Budgetary Controls




- Driving cost-effective purchasing through value engineering, benchmarking with other Units
- Monitoring the actual vis-à-vis budget for all major procurement and highlighting the same to senior management
- Carrying out periodic reconciliation of electrical items
- Coordinating with interdepartmental teams for budgetary control of the expenditure against all OPEX budgets with respect to electrical items.
- Influencing user departments to use non-moving and slow-moving user indented inventory of electrical, min-max auto items with a structured consumption plan in order to minimize blockage of working capital in stock and escalating deviations
- Compliance
- Implementing norms and code of conduct and ensuring complete compliance with regulations and statutory requirements to minimize risks from vendors.
- Adhering to internal financial controls and complying with requirements of periodic internal and statutory audits.
- Complying with security, health, safety, environmental norms and Integrated Management System guidelines.
- Customer-centricity
- Undertaking timely intervention to resolve disputes raised by vendors to prevent escalation and to ensure uninterrupted plant operations




- Improving vendor selection so as to obtain ‘right materials at right cost and right time’.
- Tracking long outstanding vendor advances for reconciliation and ensuring closure through escalation as appropriate
- Interfacing with vendors and arranging for timely availability of all services needed for uninterrupted plant operations, house-keeping, preventive and break-down maintenance at optimum cost, within the required time frames and with all statutory compliance.
- Tracking service provider performance against set standards for course corrections.
- Sustainability and Process Improvement
- Implementing SOPs on critical processes such as vendor registration, vendor evaluation, Purchase Order processing etc.
- Evaluating vendors on a regular basis and taking necessary corrective action
- Identifying the areas for improvement and implementing continuous improvement in terms of cost, quality, services and systems as well as HSE, safety and productivity issues
- Initiating improvement programs under ISO and World Class Manufacturing (WCM)
- Partnering digitization initiatives
- Implementing valuable housekeeping in the department
- Partnering creation and maintenance of Green Belt
- People development and engagement
- Imparting training of all team members including contractual manpower to enhance technical and behavioral competencies and increase safety awareness.
- Inhouse sessions to share the best practices from individual and other unit as well.
- Embedding 5S work culture.

📌 Support SET Mbr Purchase 1 (Gujarat)
🏢 Aditya Birla Group
📍 Gujarat