SENIOR MANAGER / AGM PROCUREMENT & STRATEGIC SOURCING

SENIOR MANAGER / AGM PROCUREMENT & STRATEGIC SOURCING Company: V2 Retail Ltd Job Location: Gurugram, Haryana, India Employment Type: Full-time Experience Required: 10 - 15 years SENIOR MANAGER / AGM PROCUREMENT & STRATEGIC SOURCING Location: Gurugram, Haryana | Head Office Experience: 1015 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 MISBuild and lead a strong procurement team aligned with V2 Retails growth and store-opening pipeline WHAT WERE LOOKING FOR 1015 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 1824 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 .