SENIOR MANAGER / AGM PROCUREMENT & STRATEGIC SOURCING

SENIOR MANAGER / AGM – PROCUREMENT & STRATEGIC SOURCING

Location: Gurugram, Haryana | Head Office

Experience: 10–15 Years

Function: Procurement & Strategic Sourcing

Employment: Full-time

Reports To: COO / CEO

Career Path: Head – Procurement

V2 Retail Ltd. is expanding its procurement leadership team and looking for a strong Senior Manager / AGM – Procurement & Strategic Sourcing to build and drive procurement across Merchandise & Non-Merchandise categories.

This is a high-impact, build-and-grow leadership opportunity for a procurement professional who can deliver measurable savings, strengthen vendor partnerships and build a scalable procurement function.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and execute procurement strategy across merchandise and non-merchandise categories

• Drive strategic sourcing, category planning, annual rate contracts and cost optimisation

• Lead high-value commercial negotiations, should-costing, benchmarking and value engineering

• Build, develop and diversify the vendor network across key Indian manufacturing clusters

• Develop alternate/backup vendors for critical categories

• Reduce PO-to-warehouse lead time and improve vendor OTIF performance

• Partner with Buying, Design, Finance and Operations on target costing and margin improvement

• Establish procurement governance including RFQ, e-auction, contracts, DOA and spend analytics

• Drive ERP/P2P discipline and monthly procurement MIS

• Build and lead a strong procurement team aligned with V2 Retail's growth and store-opening pipeline

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

10–15 years of experience in Procurement / Strategic Sourcing

3+ years of team management or ownership of a multi-category portfolio

Strong experience in direct and/or indirect procurement

Proven track record of negotiated savings and lead-time reduction

Strong vendor network across Indian manufacturing clusters

Expertise in commercial negotiations, costing and vendor development

Advanced Excel; Power BI exposure is an advantage

Working knowledge of SAP MM / Oracle / Ariba / Coupa / equivalent ERP/P2P systems

Strong contract management and vendor governance skills

MBA / Engineering background preferred; CPSM/CIPS is an advantage

Willingness to travel approximately 25% to vendor/manufacturing clusters

PREFERRED INDUSTRIES

Value/Fashion Retail | Hypermarket | Grocery | QSR | E-commerce Private Label | FMCG | Consumer Durables

Experience in apparel, lifestyle or general-merchandise sourcing will be an added advantage.

WHY JOIN V2 RETAIL

Opportunity to build and lead the procurement function

Clear career path to Head – Procurement within 18–24 months, linked to performance

Direct exposure to the COO/CEO and leadership team

Large-scale procurement environment with 2,000+ Cr annual material spend

High-growth retail business with an expanding store network

Performance-linked compensation and bonus