Sr General Manager, Global ETO Procurement

Job Title: Procurement Cluster Manager (Region International) - Direct Procurement

Location: India

Category: Procurement - Global Supply Chain

Job Type: Full-time

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Your Mission

The Procurement Group Manager role is responsible for leading, developing and acting as the main SPOC of the ETO India plants under his/her responsibility, driving strategy, digital transformation and synergies within Global ETO plants and other divisions.

Business continuity and customer focus by enabling a full set of Supply Chain resiliency as main priorities, and hands-on margin improvements by dedicated productivity actions and ETO execution.

This position is responsible and accountable for end-to-end procurement performance, encompassing procurement competitiveness, ensuring process robustness, and achieving financial performance through optimized procurement performance.

It drives simplification, standardization, and digital transformation, taking into account regional and country-specific stakeholder needs and the overall G ETO Procurement strategy.

Essential Responsibilities:

As Group Manager, his/her responsibilities include:


* Lead, develop and empower the People (Buyer, PPM, CPB) in line with Schneider's core values and personal development needs


* Lead short-term needs, escalation topics, and influence business decisions of the plants under his/her scope to assure business continuity


* Drive APOP (Annual Procurement Operational Plan) strategy execution in cooperation with Category strategy through aligned SOC (Supplier Orientation Chart) with suppliers and stakeholder (Plant Directors, RCM, GCD, SQM, Tendering...)


* Drive with full accountability at the group level, implementation of transformation levers, mainly productivity (Nego, COS and QVE), resiliency (PO2, SBO, rebalancing), ETO project dimension (CPP) and leveraging digitisation (boosting RPA, Business Intelligence, eRA)


* Secure i-SAVE data quality and consistency with AOC


* Initiate recovery plan in case of discrepancy


* Prepare and participate in the Quarterly business reviews


* Lead critical negotiations where/when necessary to assure productivity actions as well as MPD coordination


* Develop and lead a high-performing procurement team through...