Raw Material Buying - Supervisor

THE ROLE:

The role requires experience in buying of Raw materials/Packing materials in food and Nutraceutical industry with an adequate knowledge of material requirement planning. Interacting with Herbalife approved suppliers for material connectivity, raising and sharing POs to suppliers and keeping a close monitoring of material connectivity at manufacturing locations as per agreed timeline will be key to successful buying operations. The individual should have experience in stakeholder management as the role involves interacting internally and externally. 

HOW YOU WOULD CONTRIBUTE: 

• Material Requirement Planning (MRP) as per the production/demand Plan.
• Raw material purchase.
• Supplier relationship and material scheduling.
• Safety stock management
• Vendor performance and service level monitoring. 

SKILLS AND BACKGROUND REQUIRED TO BE SUCCESSFUL:

•           Material Planning as per production and demand plan. Release of Purchase order in Oracle. 

             Sharing PO to the vendor and receiving acknowledgement.

•           Discussion with the vendors on further schedules and sharing demand forecast with vendors. 

             Scheduling vendors as per the shortages received from the Inventory Team. Sending Pre-alert to 

             site team for connectivity of materials 

•           Vendor Inventory Management. Shelf-life validation for available stock at Vendor. Open PO review 

             and reconciliation. Safety stock validation

•           PO rescheduling and delivery realignment as per the plan.

•           Posting updates on the material connectivity’s to relevant stakeholders.

•           Communication on material rejections to the vendor. 

•           Communicating on the SCAR and CAPA and following up for the same. Requesting for the RCA and 

             handling queries regarding the same. Arranging for the joint inspection whenever there are issues

             material rejection 

•           System RTV documentation and VSFR. Arranging credit note from supplier against rejection.          

Specification check for the next deliveries

•           Review with Category lead on the material connectivity issues 

•           Price master validation/Update. Share of business adherence with existing suppliers.

•           Open PO review with the vendors on monthly basis

•           Audit requirement - data maintenance.

•           Knowledge of advance Excel, MS Office, ERP or Oracle (Knowledge of Oracle will be preferred).

Experience:  5-8 years of experience in material procurement/buying and material planning.