Deputy General Manager - Real Estate Category Procurement

Deputy General Manager - Real Estate Category Procurement

Who are we?

Procurement for the Real Estate Category plays a strategic leadership role, overseeing all procurement activities related to real estate assets and services.

This position is responsible for driving cost efficiency, ensuring compliance, and aligning procurement strategies with the organization's real estate and business objectives.

• Our sourcing experts will focus on the strategic value-add, developing supplier partnerships and innovations with cutting edge expertise in more than 150 kind of procurement categories
• Our regional teams will partner with our businesses to deliver on targets.
Our goal as a business enabler is to make buying easy for all Schneider Electric employees.

We are a global team of 250 professionals, serving all business of Schneider Electric, more than 500 entities in more than 150 countries.

We establish integral partnerships with our strategic suppliers and are striving to contribute to the top line growth of the company for our customers & shareholders.

What will you do?

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 cycle for Internal needs analysis, Market analysis, Supplier's qualification and classification, 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 regional 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 compliance to service level agreements.
• Monitor and report activities to ensure fulfilling service levels and take mitigation actions 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 category.
• 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 objectives for assigned plant.
• Act as local Business Partner and be the voice of business stakeholder's needs & requirements by understanding and relay business needs and requirements.
• Facilitate to ensure balance between procurement strategies and operational realities to ensure the alignment o...