A medium-sized Beauty & Personal Care manufacturing and export company is looking for a commercially strong and hands-on procurement professional for its Mumbai office.

Position: Assistant Manager – Procurement

Location: Mumbai

Experience: 7–10 years

Reporting to: Manager – Procurement

Role Overview The selected candidate will manage the procurement of raw materials, packaging materials, consumables, and other assigned categories while coordinating closely with manufacturing, planning, R&D;, quality, packaging development, stores and finance.

The role provides an opportunity to work closely with the Procurement Manager and progressively assume broader functional responsibilities. We are therefore looking for someone who combines execution capability with maturity, ownership, and future leadership potential.

Key Responsibilities

- Ensure timely and cost-effective procurement of raw materials and packaging materials.
- Review material requirements, inventory, open purchase orders, and supplier lead times.
- Identify, evaluate, and develop reliable suppliers.
- Develop alternate sources for critical and single-source materials.
- Obtain quotations, prepare comparisons, and negotiate prices, MOQs, payment terms and delivery schedules.
- Procure packaging components such as bottles, tubes, caps, pumps, labels, cartons, and corrugated boxes.
- Support sourcing for new products, packaging developments, and commercial launches.
- Monitor supplier performance on quality, delivery, cost, and responsiveness.
- Resolve material shortages,



delivery delays, and supplier-quality issues.
- Identify cost-saving, localisation, and value-engineering opportunities.
- Coordinate with internal teams to align procurement with production and launch timelines.
- Maintain accurate purchase orders, supplier records and procurement data in SAP or ERP.
- Prepare periodic procurement MIS and track material status, savings, and supplier performance.
- Support inventory and working-capital optimisation.
- Guide junior procurement team members, wherever applicable.

Candidate Profile

- 7–10 years of procurement experience in Beauty & Personal Care, cosmetics, FMCG, pharmaceuticals, chemicals or consumer products .
- Hands-on experience in both raw-material and packaging-material procurement is strongly preferred.
- Good understanding of packaging components and supplier-development processes.
- Robust negotiation, cost-analysis and commercial-evaluation skills.
- Experience working with manufacturing, planning, R&D;, quality and finance teams.
- Working knowledge of SAP or a comparable ERP system.
- Strong Excel, MIS, and analytical capability.
- Mature, dependable, and able to independently manage assigned categories.
- Willingness to travel to manufacturing facilities and supplier locations when required.

Education

- Graduate in Engineering, Science, Pharmacy, Commerce, or a related field. An MBA or postgraduate qualification in Supply Chain, Materials Management or Operations will be preferred.

📌 Assistant Procurement Manager (Mumbai)
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