The Purchasing Manager leads the development, optimisation, and governance of purchasing processes that ensure material availability, cost control, and supplier performance across the organisation. This role focuses on operational purchasing excellence leading purchasing teams to deliver materials as requried by the manufacturing and warehousing locations. The role focuses on operational purchasing excellence—standardising workflows, improving lead‑time reliability, and supporting local purchasing teams with tools, analytics, and best practices that strengthen the supply chain. The Purchasing Manager will be responsible for flow and project purchasing. Be accountable for the E2E purchasing activities and achieving KPIs. You will provide leadership direction to the team & build a scalable and capable organization through development and deployment of standard processes across all business which should be accepted by businesses as a benchmark solution by allowing better Material management & Planning with all cross functional key stakeholder including SIOP and Network Planner . Provide leadership to Managers of people in order to manage and develop Buyer and Planner team, implement and achieve Buyer and Planner metrics. Build organizational capability though development plans, mentoring, driving accountability, cross-training & succession planning would be one of the primary objectives of this position. Drive Key initiatives of the Materials COE Goals & priorities in People, Processes and Tools. Drive digitalization to bring more efficiency. Enable the team to Own and drive Business Impact goals such as On Time Delivery, , past due reduction and Excess & obsolete inventory reduction and control. Support various analytical requirements from materials management. Customer Engagement and Satisfaction: - Drive Stakeholder engagement and satisfaction by meeting expectations and needs, Monitor KPIs, voice of customer through periodic meetings and ensuring timely resolution to customer queries/feedback etc. To plan, schedule and manage the defined business services, delivering to agreed timescales, budget, quality criteria and commitments This individual will have to interact with CoE Team across the Global and drive effective improvement in process. Handle team dynamics by keeping the team motivated & connected; Fair performance evaluation through Strong feedback mechanism. Identify and deploy right training and upskilling measures for the teamIndividual will have team management responsibilities of a team ~ 60 Buyers Bachelor's degree required. Master's degree strongly preferred (in Materials/Production/Operations Management or Engineering) 15+ Year of Experience in Materials Management Experience in project and flow purchasing in a manufacturing environment Extensive people management experience SAP experience a must; knowledge of Kinaxis would be a plus You will be a problem solver and be able to identify root causes issues You will have the ability to navigate a matrix organisation and build collaborative partnerships to drive CI. Excellent communication, customer service, and interpersonal skills necessary to converse with diverse group of stakeholders including senior management, operations and Supply Chain Management personnel. You will be a change agent driving large scale transformation within the organisation Proven track record in driving Continuous Improvement projects