Senior Manager - Solar Procurement

Product category: Solar Products & components

• All In One Solar Street Light, Stand Alone Solar Street Light, On Grid AC Driver Solar Plant, Off Grid Battery Backup Solar Plant, Roof Top Solar Plant
• Solar Product components (Solar Panel, Charge Controller, Battery, Inverter, Cables etc) supply base knowledge.

Responsibility:

• Owning Vendor Relationship and delivers strategic impact through Vendor Strategy Development.
• Understanding the full business relationship of the Vendor, its position in the market relative to others, and its strategy, investment themes and capabilities
• Managing Vendor performance, cross-functional stakeholder feedback /calibration.
• Applying oversight and monitoring of agreed projects being executed in the business by securing close alignment between supplier, R&D, Quality and business.
• Purchasing Strategy and Process
• Provides regular reports to Management that brings visibility on product level related to compliance, spend and savings.
• Continuous improvement of Purchasing processes and technologies.
• Pursues leads/opportunities to increase leverage and supports their development where applicable, in close conjunction with the relevant Product Category and Cost Analyst team.
• Be aware of industry information/ benchmark.
• Overall owns the vendor contracts and negotiations.
• Establishes baseline and target prices for negotiations.
• Builds and sustains a network with people in relevant related business areas to ensure knowledge transfer and sharing of best practices

Skills and experience 

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering (Mechanical or Electronics, etc.) with 10 to 15 yrs of relevant experience.
• Good understanding of supplier manufacturing processes, part cost roll-ups, commodity price movement trend, part development tools & methodologies.
• Highly motivated, action oriented, persistent towards accomplishing tasks and drives for success.
• Ability to communicate well, oral and written, in English
• Cross functional skills and awareness of business requirements,
• Is capable of understanding global approach and align locally. Is accurate and delivers quality work, with a strong sense of urgency