Procurement Manager
Tapal Tea Pvt Limited
Total years of experience :14 years, 6 Months
• Leads the negotiation and contract management for company-wide Packaging spend.
• Actively and consistently support all efforts to simplify and enhance the stakeholders experience.
• Develop and ensure the implementation of the Annual Procurement Strategy related to Packaging Material to meet the Packaging Budget.
• Lead cross functional teams to develop meaningful requirements to ensure quality responses from suppliers with Researches and develops adequate sources of supply and material.
• Thorough understanding of injection and blow molding technologies, flexible packaging techniques and paper & board packing materials with updated feedstock prices from local and imported sources.
• Liaise with the local and international suppliers to secure cost-effective rates, while adhering to the company’ quality specifications.
• Continuously seeks out cost savings opportunities and leads efforts to realize those savings via product logics and buying efficiencies.
• Strong internal stakeholder management skills - capacity to listen, build trusting relationships in all levels of the organization, understand and capture stakeholder’s needs and deliver effective solutions.
• Works beyond the traditional procurement metrics to achieve operational and technical improvements to the business process.
• Fully operational and actively use ERP tools (SAP - MM Module, Ariba E-Sourcing)
• Upholds Tapal code of business ethics in all activities.
• Develop and execute optimal sourcing strategies for Foods - Packing Material with spend of around PKR 1.214 Billion.
• Support global / regional strategic sourcing teams for the sourcing of materials.
• Analyze and create a data-driven fact base to support strategic sourcing decisions.
• Thorough understanding of injection and blow molding technologies, flexible packaging techniques and paper & board packing materials with updated feedstock prices.
• Lead and support cross-functional team efforts for continuous improvement.
• Contracting with suppliers to build strong, long-lasting and dynamic supplier relationships.
• Perform detailed analysis to track and monitor total spend for assigned category.
• Drive tenders, measure actuals versus baseline cost, price forecasting and accurately track savings objectives via Product logic and Buying efficiency.
• Research, follow, analyze and prepare supply market insight (e.g. price trends, cost drivers, supplier financial health, acquisitions & disposals and intelligence gathering).
• Work with R&D team to define opportunities and execute long-term technology initiatives to achieve optimized product performance.
• Fully operational and actively use ERP tools (e.g. SAP - MM Module, Ariba)
• Upholds Unilever code of business ethics in all activities.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with both current and prospective suppliers.
• Assist the team in collecting the relevant internal data (e.g. item /service description, volume, price, specifications, supplier data, business needs and constraints).
• Assist the team in obtaining and interpreting customer data and needs (e.g. volumes, specifications, price points, margin thresholds).
• Import shipment follow-up, issuing NND’s, Custom clearance, monitoring supplier payments and support imports & logistic up to facilitate payments (BOE). (Import / Local).
• Research, follow, analyze and prepare supply market insight (e.g. price trends, cost drivers, supplier financial health, acquisitions & disposals and intelligence gathering).
• Managed all the aspect of imports, approval for the shipment, tracking shipment, clearing the customs and routing to the warehouse.
• Fully operational and actively use ERP tools (e.g. SAP - MM Module, Ariba).
• Upholds Unilever code of business ethics in all activities.
• Import shipment follow-up, issuing documents, Custom clearance, monitoring supplier payments and support imports & logistic up to facilitate payments.
• Purchase order creation, sending the purchase orders to supplier, communication on the delivery dates.
• Filing of documents, Purchase orders, Specification sheets and other import shipping documents.
• Lead and support cross-functional team efforts for continuous improvement.
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Main courses which were studied are : Procurement Operations Management Logistics and Transportation Management Advance Supply Chain Management
Major Courses : Supply Chain Management Audit and Taxation
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