Non-Commodity Procurement Manager at Olam Agri

Job Description

• Manage all aspects of non-commodity procurement, from sourcing to delivery. These include:
• Strategic Sourcing: Developing sourcing strategies, negotiating contracts, and identifying alternative sources to achieve productivity gains and cost savings
• Supplier Management: Evaluating and selecting suppliers based on quality, cost, and capability
• Directly handling big global cooperatives and suppliers
• Operational oversight: Overseeing contract implementation, resolving operational issues and managing budgets and forecasts.
• Pricing ideas – Adopt to market practices and ensure cost-effective buying.
• Compliance: Ensuring all procurement policies and regulations are followed.
• Able to plan and manage the required logistics and other supportive functions.

Key Deliverables

• Cost: Manage the direct cost of operations within the allotted budget
• Quality: Ensure optimum quality of engineering spares is procured
• Sustainability: Anchor and lead the sustainability initiatives
• You will be responsible for the optimal utilization of resources
• Support implementation of required infrastructure as per the business plan and derive maximum capacity efficiencies by eliminating controllable losses
• Be responsible for all Engineering Spares & Services

Strategic Effectiveness

• Ability to build teams – hiring, training, and developing team members
• Collaborate with key stakeholders involving formal business reviews and ongoing continuous improvement initiatives
• Good communication skills.
• Team player, with team management skills
• Effective coaching, facilitation, presentation, and team-building skills
• Ability to leverage modern procurement tools and ERP systems to automate sourcing, vendor management and procurement analytics for improved efficiency and transparency
• Establish structured supplier performance reviews (KPIs, SLAs) to drive continuous improvement, strengthen long-tern partnerships and ensure alignment with organizational quality and cost objectives
• Risk Mitigation (planning)- Ability to identify and mitigate supply chain risks by developing contingency sourcing strategies.
• Be able to drive value in cost benchmarking through structured negotiations, should-cost analysis and continuous monitoring of cost drivers to ensure optimal procurement decisions

Requirements

• Degree: Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Administration, Engineering, or a highly analytical field. (An MBA or Master’s in Supply Chain/Finance is highly advantageous for managerial levels).
• Certifications: Strong preference for professional procurement qualifications such as CIPS (Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply) or CPSM (Certified Professional in Supply Management).
• Years of Experience: 5–7 years of proven end-to-end procurement experience, ideally within a mass manufacturing, FMCG, or fast-paced multinational corporate environment.
• Technical Spend Competency: Demonstrated experience handling large-value asset purchases (Capex), complex service agreements, general consumables, and logistics/freight sourcing.
• Systems & Tools: High proficiency in enterprise resource planning (ERP) platforms—specifically SAP MM (Materials Management) and SAP Ariba or similar cloud-based e-sourcing tools. Intermediate to advanced mastery of Microsoft Excel for data manipulation and pivot table spend analysis.
• Trade & Import Familiarity: Solid working knowledge of end-to-end import/export (EXIM) certification, custom clearings, and local documentation processes for non-commodity items.