Purchasing Market Operations Specialist

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P&G was founded over 180 years ago as a simple soap and candle company. Today, we're the world’s largest consumer goods company and home to iconic, trusted brands that make life a little bit easier in small but significant ways. We've spanned three centuries thanks to three simple ideas: leadership, innovation and citizenship. The insight, innovation and passion of hardworking teams has helped us grow into a global company that is governed responsibly and ethically, that is open and clear, and that supports good causes and protects the environment. This is a place where you can be proud to work and do something that matters.

Dedication from Us:

You will be at core of Ground- breaking innovations, be given exciting opportunities, lead initiatives, and take charge and responsibility, in creative workspaces where new insights thrive. All the while, you'll receive outstanding training to help you become a leader in your field.

What we Offer:

Continuous mentorship – work with peers and receive both formal training as well as day-to-day mentoring from your manager multifaceted and encouraging work environment– employees are at the centre, we value every individual and support initiatives, promoting agility and work/life balance.

Overview of the job

Lead indirect spend pool sourcing for a P&G India site including goods as well as services within defined spend range. Collaborate with internal as well external stakeholders to generate right value creation for the organization while ensuring service to internal stakeholders and governance throughout the sourcing process.

Your team

This role reports to SDS Cluster Manager Purchases & person will be located out of Mumbai, India.

How success looks like

Value Creation – Drive exceptional impact through Value Creation in Cost & Cash in respective sourcing desk. Sufficient pipeline to be developed to meet the internal target of Cost savings / Cash as it is a critical success criterion.

Stewardship & Governance – Understand the purchases policies & sourcing principles. There should not be any misses on stewardship & take necessary actions to ensure audit gaps closure. Person should be able to demonstrate & guide users on right thing to do in line with our PVPs.

Simplification & User experience – Analyse the processes to identify simplification opportunities in the sourcing activities across spend pools to ensure exceptional user experience. Proactively support any business-critical situations to ensure no business risk.

Productivity – Championing productivity through eliminating unnecessary, overly complex, or duplicative work/costs that do not create value. Adopt structured approach to manage daily purchases requisitions & drive effective reviews with team as well as manager.

Responsibilities of the role

• Individual is expected to source Indirect goods/services (Indirect) independently for respective sites in the scope.
• Review open purchase requisitions on daily basis along with cluster leader & create best value for the organization.
• Ensure timely closure of sourcing of requisitions to avoid any impact on business continuity.
• Identify savings opportunities by collaborating with site stakeholders & execute to meet internal value creation targets.
• Collaborate with plant/site users to ensure supplier sufficiency for each commodity & identify new suppliers wherever required to facilitate the site.
• Ensure compliance to purchasing policies throughout the processes & correct the gaps.

Job Qualifications

Graduate and above with preference to prior procurement / sourcing experience of 2+ years.

Effective communication skills to drive effective reviews for his/her desk with Leadership.

Demonstrate strong Sourcing and Negotiation skills to deliver YoY business results in Service, Cost, Cash & Vendor Performance.

About us

We produce globally recognized brands, and we grow the best business leaders in the industry. With a portfolio of trusted brands as diverse as ours, it is paramount our leaders are able to lead with courage the vast array of brands, categories and functions. We serve consumers around the world with one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Always®, Ariel®, Gillette®, Head & Shoulders®, Herbal Essences®, Oral-B®, Pampers®, Pantene®, Tampax® and more. Our community includes operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide.

Visit http://www.pg.com to know more.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship, disability, HIV/AIDS status, or any other legally protected factor.

At P&G, the hiring journey is personalized every step of the way, thereby ensuring equal opportunities for all, with a strong foundation of Ethics & Corporate Responsibility guiding everything we do.

All the available job opportunities are posted either on our website - pgcareers.com, or on our official social media pages, for the convenience of prospective candidates, and do not require them to pay any kind of fees towards their application.”

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