Job Role: Specialist - Sourcing
Experience: 8 to 15 years.
Job Location: Hyderabad
Educational Qualification: M.Sc/B.Tech - having experience in supply chain management
Strategic Sourcing and Purchasing professional with combined experience in areas of strategic sourcing (DS & DP), RFP support, purchasing management.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Ensure the regular availability of Materials for API & Formulation Plants that are available in approved condition as per the timelines to support Manufacturing, R&D and Business requirements.
- Review & monitor the supplies/delivery timelines along with the delivery management, Planning, MSAT, Production/Manufacturing, QC/QA etc. and align according to business priorities/expectations (with the project managers in case of R&D).
- Continuous tracking & monitoring the sourcing activities so that timely actions are initiated for order placement and delivery of required materials.
- Providing Market Intelligence, market information/ changes/ developments etc. that would enable right business decisions & building sourcing strategies.
- Vendor management & relationship building for a long-term benefit
- Prepare & maintain business cases for each products sourced, map competition scenarios, pricing strategies, evaluate & analyze the market data/competition strategies etc.
- Track savings targeted for the given fiscal year and take necessary corrective steps to ensure that the savings target is achieved.
- Arrange the required technical documents: TSE/BSE, Compliance certificates etc. as per the Vendor Qualification/ Requalification SOP to comply with changing regulatory/GMP requirements.
- Support QA/QC/RA departments by arranging the documents & information required for audits and address deficiency for material/vendor/product approvals etc. from respective business partners.
- Arrange vendor audits for the respective vendors as per the timelines defined by QA dept.
- Compliance
- Review guidelines received from QA/ project managers. Track open deviations and advances and resolve the same;
- Review POs for specification numbers, GST details, artwork, price, payment terms etc. in accordance to the purchase manual.
- Alternate Vendor Identification
- Identify issues around delivery, business continuity, pricing for vendors
- Initiate AVD process for mitigating above risks, as per VQ SoP.
- Support for RFP
- Timely support to Business team for costing of critical RM, PM, API & Excipients.
- Preparation & evaluation of Raw material consumption sheets.
