Assistant Manager - India Procurement

FLEET Management Limited

Our 27-year journey rides on the passion of over 24,000 seafarers and 1,000 onshore professionals. Today, we are one of the largest independent third-party ship management companies managing over 600 diverse types of vessels. Headquartered in Hong Kong SAR, China, we operate on a global scale having 27 offices in 12 countries. Our client base spans over 100 world-class ship owners, including Fortune 500 companies from China, Greece, India, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Norway, Turkey and the USA, among others.

In a shore career at FLEET, you will be working with a team of a highly passionate, self-driven and committed group of people. We aim to be a place where you can achieve your full potential, regardless of your background. We are looking for individuals who are ambitious about making a strong contribution to FLEET’s short and long-term sustainable growth – whether you are dealing directly with clients or working in a role supporting the business, such as technology, legal or communications.

Job Position Summary

Reporting to the General Manager (Procurement), the main responsibility of the Manager is to supervise a team of Executives and Senior executives and provide daily support to the team, supervise service/goods delivery and internal customer satisfaction, to oversee vendor development and statutory compliance.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Strict adherence to Company’s Purchasing Policies and Procedures
• Interacting with all user departments of the organization for their requirements of both supplies and services
• In charge of daily operational purchasing needs such following up on requisitions from User Departments, collate all purchase requisitions and planning for optimal supplies.
• Handling of RFQ’s RFP’s, issuing of Purchase Orders and tracking on timely delivery.
• Attending and resolving supplies, quality, service, invoicing issues, over/under order with vendors
• Maintain internal data base of vendors, purchasing reports and update price list
• Responsible for overall procurement needs, services, stores, and spares, of the assigned pod vessels (including ones assigned to oneself)
• Follow up vendor, approvers, account team for timely payment.
• Document housekeeping as per company requirements
• Assist executives (when required) with coordination of quotations, choosing the approved vendors, processing of quotations and cost comparisons.
• Responsible for the team of executives and the coordination between them
• Assessing the training needs of the assigned executives and reporting to General Manager to ensure all members of the team are trained as required.
• Conducting yearly appraisals of the executives and providing an improvement plan to overcome any shortcomings.
• Handling of contracts with the sellers and the vendors

Job Experience, Functional Knowledge and Qualifications

• Degree holder of any faculty with minimum 7– 10 years of work experience in the ship management industry in procurement
• Good knowledge of vendor sourcing practices, evaluating and liaising with vendors and service providers
• Good understanding of purchasing process, policy and systems, ability to negotiate supply terms and pricing with vendors

Job Location : Seawoods, Navi Mumbai

Fleet Management Limited is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by local laws.