Buyer - Indirect Material Procurement

Buyer-FME2 Function Procurement Pay Band E4 to M2 Role Buyer FME2 A purpose driven role for you Your responsibilities will include but not limited to: 1. Indirect Material Sourcing: Procure materials, special tools, and workshop equipment across corporate offices, regional offices, learning centers, and plants. 2. Commercial Strategy: Drive end-to-end purchasing steps from supplier selection, RFQ management, and quote queries to statutory form compliance. 3. Cost Innovation: Proactively identify and execute LEAP projects for annual procurement cost savings. A Day in the life You will be working on day-to-day basis on following: 1. PR-to-PO Conversion: Managing the daily review of purchase requisitions and processing timely conversions for A & B class items. 2. Schedule Follow-up: Releasing monthly schedules as per the approved SOB and monitoring daily supplies to secure a 100% delivery ratio for regular consumables. 3. Bids Evaluation: Collecting supplier quotes and compiling detailed comparative statements for stakeholder approval within the SAP portal. 4. Operations Tracking: Coordinating daily delivery timelines against committed dates to ensure raw materials arrive on time. 5. Operational Troubleshooting: Resolving invoice gate entry bottlenecks, GRN delays, and part rejection issues. 6. SOP Governance: Ensuring 100% adherence to departmental standard operating procedures and the defined Delegation of Authority (DOA). 7. Cross-Functional Interfacing: Collaborating with plant engineers to understand project requirements, and working with Finance for payments and road permits. Academic Qualification & Experience 1. Education: B.Tech or Diploma in Mechanical, Electrical, or Electronics Engineering. 2. Experience: 4–7 years of experience for B.Tech graduates or 6–10 years for Diploma holders in Indirect and MRO procurement. Technical Skills/Knowledge 1.SAP MM System: Strong transactional mastery of SAP MM modules and portal records management. 2.MRO Sourcing Frameworks: Core competence in sourcing strategies for indirect materials, plant tools, and workshop machinery. 3.Commercial Negotiation: Skilled in running RFPs, handling price settlements, and executing SOB rationalization or localization. 4.Office Productivity: Proficient in MS Excel and MS Office for managing quote evaluations and comparative tracking. 5.Analytical Reporting: Good capabilities in data analysis and technical presentation creation. Behavioural Skills 1.Customer Focus: Dedicated approach to clarifying design specifications and understanding end-user needs across business units. 2.Relationship Building: Ability to maintain professional lines of communication with over 100 vendor accounts and cross-functional teams. 3.Process Oriented: Strict commitment to document compliance and record-keeping principles. 4.Result Orientation: Driven to meet fixed delivery deadlines and category-specific saving targets. 5.Silo Navigation: Resilience to drive consensus when stakeholders have different operating requirements or proprietary data constraints. What will it be like to work for Hero As the world’s largest manufacturer of motorcycles and scooters for the last 22 years, Hero is where you will get to work with the brightest innovators, passionate about being the best in what they do. You will become a part of India’s proudest legacy, a brand that is celebrated by 110 million Indians and is now taking over the world with its manufacturing superpower. If you are someone who dreams big and goes after their dreams with absolute conviction, Hero is your place to be. At Hero, we are building a cutting-edge future of mobility, pushing frontiers of innovation and aiming for the very best. Choose to be with the best, choose to be your best. About Hero Headquartered in New Delhi (India), Hero MotoCorp is the world's largest manufacturer of motorcycles and scooters for 22 consecutive years. We are at the forefront of developing modern, technologically superior and eco-friendly mobility solutions for its millions of customers around the world. Hero MotoCorp has rapidly transformed into a true multinational organization with a presence in 47 countries across Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. We have achieved the coveted milestone of 110 million cumulative production and sales since inception. Aligned with its Vision “ Be the Future of Mobility ”, Hero MotoCorp plans to achieve its next 100 million sales by 2030. We have a globally benchmarked manufacturing and Research & Development (R&D) ecosystem that is spread across global geographies. Its R&D facilities are located in India and Germany - the Centre of Innovation and Technology (CIT) at Jaipur, India, and the Tech Centre Germany (TCG), near Munich. Hero MotoCorp’s eight ‘green’ manufacturing facilities are spread across India (6), Colombia (1) and Bangladesh (1). Hero MotoCorp is the pre-eminent leader in the Indian two-wheeler market. It is the only motorcycle manufacturing company listed in Dow Jones Sustainability Index. In 2022, Hero MotoCorp launched a separate brand for emerging mobility solutions, including Electric Vehicles (EV) - VIDA , Powered by Hero. VIDA has commenced sales of VIDA V1 – its first EV – in India and plans to launch the product in global markets. We are one of the largest global corporate promoters of multiple sporting disciplines. Hero is globally associated with golf, football, field hockey, cricket and motorsports. Hero MotoSports Team Rally is one of India’s flag-bearers in global rally racing. The iconic golfer Tiger Woods is Hero MotoCorp’s Global Corporate Partner. Read more about us. Be with the best. Be your best. Catch-up on all our latest openings . Recruitment assessments – We at Hero are equal opportunity employer and committed to a policy of treating all its employees and job applications equally. Some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

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