Title:  Operations Manager

JOB DESCRIPTION

Designation: Business Partnering – Strategic Sourcing

Job Location: Bangalore

Department: Supply Chain

About Syngene                          

Incorporated in 1993, Syngene International Ltd. is an innovation-focused global discovery, development and manufacturing organization providing integrated scientific services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, nutrition, animal health, consumer goods and specialty chemical industries around the world. Its innovative culture is driven by the passion of its 5000+ strong team of scientists who work with clients from around the world to solve their scientific problems, improve R&D productivity, speed up time to market and lower the cost of innovation.

At Syngene, safety is at the heart of everything we do personally and professionally. Syngene has placed safety at par with business performance with shared responsibility and accountability, including following safety guidelines, procedures and SOPs, in letter and spirit

Key Responsibilities: 

1. Responsible for the timely sourcing of chemicals, consumables, reagents, animals’ instruments from domestic and global market with GMP and regulatory compliance.
2. Strategic collaboration with vendors to secure supplies of catalogue chemicals, biology, biological products, solvents, reagents, columns, and consumables.
3. Coordinate with vendors to set up shops in India of high volume and critical supplies
4. Support Quality Assurance in vendor onboarding, vendor audits, vendor qualification, GMP documentation
5. Ensure better commercials, payment terms, negotiation with vendors to bring down the overall cost, timeline and achieve target savings
6. Timely completion of all mandatory training on safety, quality, technical and behavioral and training our vendors, service providers and logistics partners
7. Maintain document data control (generation, archival, obsolete, destruction) throughout
8. Responsible for Budgeting, planning, and Costing for strategic sourcing dept
9. Maintain all SOPs, guidelines, and documentation of the strategic sourcing department.
10. Prepare and review contracts, bids, proposals & vendor agreement for legal correction, price, and acceptability for materials to specifications
11. To report non-conformities and implement corrective preventive actions in specific areas of operation.
12. Inventory control and management, handling chemicals, consumables, reagents, biology, and biological products
13. Establish healthy relationships with vendors and service providers.
14.  Develop market intelligence through comprehensive database of alternative options and comparative prices for negotiating price and terms of purchase.
15. Bring in global best standards for procurement, logistics and supply chain with highest standards of compliance, safety, ESG (Environment Social and Governance) and Quality
16.  Develop strong alternate supply sources to mitigate single source dependency and risk mitigation

Key Responsibilities in area of Safety :

• Overall adherence to safe practices and procedures of oneself and the teams aligned
• Contributing to development of procedures, practices and systems that ensures safe operations and compliance to company’s integrity & quality standards
• Driving a corporate culture that promotes environment, health, and safety (EHS) mindset and operational discipline at the workplace at all times.
• Ensuring safety of self, teams and lab/plant by adhering to safety protocols and following environment, health, and safety (EHS) requirements at all times in the workplace.
• Ensure all assigned mandatory trainings related to data integrity, health, and safety measures are completed on time by all members of the team including self
• Compliance to Syngene’ s quality standards at all times
• Hold self and their teams accountable for the achievement of safety goals
• Govern and Review safety metrics from time to time

 Educational Qualification:

1. B. Tech/ BE /B Pharma/Any Graduation with relevant experience
2. PG in SCM/MM or MBA is an advantage

Technical/functional Skills: (Maximum 4-6 Points)

1. Good understanding of Procurement systems, Warehousing & logistics, GMP/Non GMP Quality system and compliance requirement of Pharma.
2. Fair level of expertise in Procurement Operations and drive performance & Operational excellence                      
3. Fair understanding of Chemical & Biologics products, production process and associated cost drivers for Procurement
4. Strategic capability to assess the suppliers on their capabilities including cost, innovation and technology collaboration
5. Strong analytical and problem-solving ability.
6. Knowledge of company`s compliance and regulations like,. EHSS, cGMP, ISO, ESG, Sustainable procurement etc.

Behavioral Skills:

1. Good communication skills
2. Negotiation skills to manage Suppliers and internal stakeholders
3. Strong interpersonal skills.
4. Able to work under pressure.
5. Good team player
6. Team management skills

Syngene Values

• Foster a corporate culture that promotes an environment, occupational health, safety, and sustainability (EHSS) mindset as well as the highest standards of quality, integrity, and compliance.
• Put people at the heart of our success by providing clear, active leadership defined by the Syngene leadership framework setting high standards of people management, career planning and talent retention as a priority.

Consistently demonstrate alignment with our core values

1.  Excellence
2.  Integrity
3.  Professionalism

Accountabilities as a Syngene Leader

Champion effective Environment, Occupational Health, Safety and Sustainability (EHSS) practices for the company and oversee compliance with those practices within Biologics business. Play an active leadership role in monitoring and verifying safety performance through Gemba walks and other safety-led activities

Equal Opportunity Employer:

It is the policy of Syngene to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable legislation or local law. In addition, Syngene will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.