Job Summary

Position: Manager/Sr. Manager - Procurement

Location: Ahmedabad

Experience: 8 - 15 Years

Industries: Chemical

Responsibilities

- Strategic Sourcing Vendor Management
- Develop and execute category-wise sourcing strategies for monomers, acids, surfactants, silicones, oleochemicals and functional additives, balancing cost, quality, lead time and continuity.
- Identify, evaluate, qualify and develop domestic and international (China, Korea, Middle East, South-East Asia, Europe) suppliers; build a robust, multi-sourced vendor base for every critical input.
- Negotiate prices, payment terms, rebates, annual contracts and rate-locks; lead long-term agreements and tolling / back-to-back arrangements where advantageous.
- Maintain supplier scorecards covering quality, delivery, price competitiveness, responsiveness and compliance; drive structured supplier development and periodic business reviews.
- Technical /Chemistry - Led Raw Material Management
- Apply working knowledge of the chemistry of each raw material ; reactivity, grade, specification, substitutability and end-use impact ; to make informed buying and approval decisions.
- Understand the upstream feedstock chain (crude / petrochemical / oleo derivatives) and downstream formulation requirements, anticipating how upstream price and availability movements flow into NBSLs cost base.;
- Work with R D and QC to qualify alternate grades and sources, evaluate cost-down substitutions without compromising performance, and resolve incoming-material quality issues.
- Stay current on raw-material market intelligence ; capacity, plant turnarounds, anti-dumping duties, freight and feedstock indices ; and translate this into proactive buying calls.
- Procurement Planning Inventory Optimisation




- Convert the production / sales plan and RD pipeline into an accurate, rolling material requirement plan (MRP) across all SKUs and chemistries.
- Set and maintain re-order levels, safety stock and economic order quantities by material criticality and lead time; minimise both stock-outs and dead/slow-moving inventory.
- Plan purchases against price cycles and seasonality ; forward-buying when markets favour, deferring when they do not ; while respecting working-capital limits.
- Coordinate logistics, customs clearance, warehousing and just-in-time inflow to keep plant operations uninterrupted.
- Cost, Cash Flow Working-Capital Management
- Own the raw-material cost line; deliver year-on-year cost savings through negotiation, sourcing strategy, value engineering and demand aggregation.
- Manage creditor days (DPO) and align purchase timing with the Companys cash-flow position; partner with Finance to optimise the Cash Conversion Cycle and free up working capital.
- Structure payment terms (credit, LC, advance, consignment) to protect liquidity; evaluate the true landed cost ; price, duty, freight, financing cost and yield ; rather than headline price alone.
- Prepare budgets, cost trackers and price-variance analyses; flag material-cost risks to management with mitigation options.
- Import;Export, Compliance Documentation
- Manage import procurement end-to-end ; supplier selection, Incoterms, LC / remittance, shipping documents,



customs and statutory clearances.
- Ensure all sourced inputs comply with applicable regulatory and certification requirements, including GOTS and ZDHC / MRSL obligations relevant to NBSLs certified product lines.
- Maintain complete, audit-ready procurement records ; contracts, COAs, MSDS, approvals and price history.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration Risk Management
- Partner closely with RD, Production, QC, Planning and Finance to align procurement with formulation, capacity and commercial goals.
- Build supply-risk and business-continuity plans for single-source and high-volatility materials; maintain qualified alternates and contingency stock for critical inputs.
- Drive digitisation of procurement ; ERP-based PO, vendor and inventory workflows (including the Companys Tally-to-SAP B1 transition) ; and continuous process improvement

Required Skills
- Technical ; Functional
- Strong grasp of chemistry and end-use behaviour of monomers, acids, surfactants, silicones and oleochemicals.
- Sourcing strategy, cost modelling, landed-cost and total-cost-of-ownership analysis.
- Planning, demand forecasting and inventory / working-capital optimisation.
- Import procurement, Incoterms, LC and trade-compliance fluency.
- Behavioural Leadership
- Sharp commercial negotiation skill paired with high integrity and transparent dealing.
- Analytical, data-driven and decisive under price and supply volatility.
- Robust cross-functional collaboration and supplier-relationship management.
- Ownership mindset, accountability and ability to operate with pace and precision.

Qualifications
- Required Qualification: - B.E/B.Tech/M.Sc - Chemsitry + MBA - Supply Chain

Key Skills
- Strategic Procurement
- Strategic Sourcing

📌 Manager/Sr. Manager - Procurement (Ahmedabad)
🏢 Quality HR Services
📍 Ahmedabad