Manager Indirect Procurement

Join our dynamic Procurement team and make a significant impact on our organization's success! We're seeking an experienced Procurement Professional who can drive excellence in supplier relationships and purchasing efficiency.

What will you do:

• Serve as the key interface between plant operations and procurement, managing critical supplier relationships and organizational dynamics
• Execute comprehensive procurement activities from supplier identification through contract finalization
• Handle strategic sourcing for both direct operations (raw materials, manufacturing services) and indirect operations (office supplies, IT equipment)
• Negotiate pricing, terms, and manage supplier performance metrics
• Drive procurement productivity initiatives while ensuring customer satisfaction

Stakeholder Satisfaction & Relationship Management

§ Build strong business relationships with the plant management team.

§ Define and track the indirect procurement performance dashboard for the plant.

§ Sourcing Life cycle management and In-depth understanding of the sourcing life cy-cle for Internal needs analysis, Market analysis, Supplier's qualification and classifi-cation, Supplier's consultation and selection, Supply Qualification, Negotiation and contractual relationship management and Supplier Performance Management.

§ Develop, maintain, and administer procurement policy allowing for cultural and re-gional differences with cross-functional coordination as needed.

§ Monitor Indirect Procurement policy compliance and provide strategies to increase compliance.

§ Develop, implement and manage all vendor relationships and services ensuring com-pliance to service level agreements.

§ Monitor and report activities to ensure fulfilling service levels and take mitigation ac-tions in case of non-fulfilment of agreements

§ Strive towards continuous Indirect Procurement strategy alignment with the business, vendor improvement, and management of key category relationships.

§ Knowledge of India markets and leverages Sourcing methodologies to drive the cate-gory.

§ Responsible for end to end management of assigned manufacturing plant, including category sourcing, projects in the pipeline, procurement process and policies and managing the spend and savings targets for the plant spend.

§ Accountable for all indirect procurement categories spend & savings targets and ob-jectives for assigned plant.

§ Act as local Business Partner and be the voice of business stakeholder's needs & re-quirements by understanding and relay business needs and requirements.

§ Facilitate to ensure balance between procurement strategies and operational realities to ensure the alignment of global procurement with the business strategies.

§ Provide outstanding services that meet stakeholders' needs to achieve outstanding customer satisfaction

§ Continuously develop and maintain services and solutions to generate value for the business

§ Cost reduction in manufacturing by developing alternate vendors, and introducing new products that are aligned with the manufacturing process.

§ Supporting scrap management for the manufacturing plant.

§ Support issue resolutions.

Experiences & Competencies

§ Bachelor's or Master's degree with relevant experience of a minimum 4-6 years in manufacturing plant procurement.

§ Experienced in Procurement Negotiation

§ Business Acumen

§ Project & Change Management

§ Communication, Influence & Convincing Skills

§ Business Relationship Management

§ Networking Management & Customer Orientation.

§ Action & Solution driven

Let us learn about you! Apply today.

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36 billion global revenue
+13% organic growth
150 000+ employees in 100+ countries
#1 on the Global 100 World's most sustainable corporations

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Client-provided location(s): Chennai, India

Job ID: Schneider_Electric-https://careers.se.com/jobs/105454?lang=en-us

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-01-14T18:48:14