Senior Engineer Indirect Purchase at Emerson in Chennai

Job Summary:

Are you ready to take your engineering career to the next level? Emerson is seeking a highly motivated Senior Purchase Engineer to join the team in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. As a Purchase Professional, you will exhibit a strong work ethic and demonstrate exceptional proficiency in ensuring detailed and efficient procurement processes, enabling us to challenge in the global market.

In this Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:

• Research and identify suitable suppliers to meet the part specification needs.
• Evaluate supplier performance based on quality, cost, and delivery reliability.
• Compare quotes from multiple suppliers to ensure pricing and negotiate at each stage like Item activation and project base order before fixing the sourcing rule.
• Collaborate with internal teams to understand purchasing requirements.
• Forecast demand for goods to fix effective procurement plans.
• Maintain accurate records of purchases, contracts, and supplier communications.
• Ensure compliance with company quality policies, legal regulations, and industry standards.
• Procurement of stores through Indigenous and foreign sources as required in accordance with the rules in force.
• Checking of requisitions/purchase indents.
• Selection of suppliers for issue of enquiries.
• Issuing enquiries/tenders and obtaining quotations.
• Analyzing quotations and bids etc, and preparation of comparative statement
• Collate purchase orders and purchase requisitions in order-to-order materials, goods and supplies.
• Review Excess inventories and order as required.
• Interact with the suppliers on a day-to-day basis and Review deliveries against the orders.
• Track the status of all open orders and Follow-up of purchase orders for delivery in due time.
• Verification and passing of suppliers bills to see that payments are made promptly.
• Ensuring all invoices are sent to accounts for payment process after good receipt.
• Resolve issues such as delays, defective products, or incorrect shipments.
• Maintenance of purchase records and vendor performance records/data.
• Ensure accuracy and timely Attribute study and setting in Oracle system.
• Effective co-ordination with Global Supply Chain (GSC) team across the world and align to their vendor management policies and consistent vendor performance.
• Align materials as per Oracle Demand date, synchronized receipt of materials & in turn support in meeting customer delivery dates.
• To review and set purchase policies on requirements of material from time to time and develop and maintain good buyer-seller (Vendor) relationship.
• Loading the foundry based on the RCCP tonnage allocated to each foundry as per GSC Guidelines.
• Analysis on Loading pattern based on Supplier performance of each vendor and surge loading of vendor based upon the project order flow in previous month.
• Submitting all transporter bills on time to Payable team and Tracking all transport payment, the NSDJ progress which is created to stock transfer of D-excess parts.
• Maintaining all Purchase metrics data - OTD, PPM and spent analysis report.
• Identifying the D-excess parts and allocating them to the current demand with approval from QC. Review and clearance of Vendor invoices for on time payment processing.

Who We Are:

You act with a clear sense of ownership, build and deliver solutions that meet customer expectations, establish and maintain effective customer relationships and credit others for their contributions and accomplishments.

For This Role, You Will Need:

• Degree or equivalent experience or experience in Engineering and 5+ years Material Planning & Purchasing experience.
• Implementing an improved efficient sourcing strategy to avoid the lead time and other indirect cost.
• Well versed in MPS (Master Production Scheduling) and MRP (Material Requirement Planning).
• Candidate dedicated on achieving outcomes.
• Ability to travel across India and other world area on situation arise.