Senior Sourcing Specialist

stakeholder management and compliance with sourcing, vendor development protocols and supporting vendor audits.
• Managing 100+ Specialty Ingredients: Sourcing and evaluate potential suppliers and vendors to meet the demand, strong skills for vendor development and sourcing on Amino acids, Minerals, Chemicals, Excipients, Herbal extracts, etc.
• This role demands deep understanding of micro ingredients, import processes and logistics.
• Identify Cost Saving Strategies through negotiation and implementation.
• Coordination with Internal stakeholders - Finance, Quality, Formulations, Marketing, Plant and Commercial Teams and externally with suppliers and customers.
• Help identify business needs, gather requirements and define scope and objectives to make business decisions.
• Any other duties assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline.
• At least 7-8 years of work experience post qualification in sourcing and procurement of raw materials.
• Proficiency in MS Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, Outlook etc.
• Strong negotiation skills.

Preferred Qualifications
• Full time Masters in Business Administration.
• At least 10 years of experience in sourcing of micro ingredients for the Poultry & Dairy Nutrition /Feed category.
• Excellent experience in developing, leading and executing purchasing strategies; tracking and reporting key functional metrics to reduce expenses and improve effectiveness.
• Strong relationship management skills with the capability to relate to people at any level of business and management.
• Excellent analytical and negotiation skills.
• Strong experience in forecasting price and market trends to identify changes of balance in buyer-supplier power; conducting cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking.

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