Opex Manager

Job Title: Opex Manager Company: Apollo Hospitals Job Category: SAP MM Roles & Responsibilities: Role Purpose To manage and optimize the hospitals operational expenditure (OPEX) supply chain, ensuring cost\-effective procurement, inventory availability, vendor performance, compliance, and uninterrupted supply of medical and non\-medical consumables and services. Key Responsibilities 1\. Procurement \& OPEX Management * Manage procurement of medical consumables, surgical items, general supplies, housekeeping materials, stationery, uniforms, engineering consumables, and other operational requirements. * Monitor OPEX spend against approved budgets and identify cost\-saving opportunities. * Drive competitive quotations, negotiations, rate contracts, and annual purchase agreements. * Implement initiatives to reduce procurement cost without compromising quality, patient safety, or service delivery. 2\. Inventory \& Materials Management * Ensure optimum inventory levels across hospital stores and user departments. * Monitor ABC, VED, FSN and XYZ analysis for effective inventory control. * Track stock\-out situations, excess inventory, non\-moving and slow\-moving items. * Reduce expiry, wastage, emergency purchases, and inventory holding costs. * Establish appropriate reorder levels, safety stock, minimum/maximum stock levels, and consumption\-based planning. 3\. Vendor Management * Identify, evaluate, onboard, and manage suppliers. * Conduct commercial negotiations covering rates, payment terms, lead times, delivery schedules, and service levels. * Monitor vendor performance through OTIF, quality rejection rate, lead time, fill rate, and SLA adherence. * Develop alternate vendors for critical items to minimize supply disruption risk. * Conduct spend analysis by category, department, vendor, and hospital/unit. * Drive product standardization, vendor consolidation, rate rationalization, and volume\-based negotiations. * Benchmark procurement prices across hospital units and external healthcare markets. * Partner with Finance and department heads to identify sustainable OPEX savings. 5\. Stakeholder Management * Work closely with Operations, Finance, Pharmacy, Nursing, OT, Engineering, Housekeeping, Biomedical, Infection Control, and Clinical departments. * Understand departmental consumption patterns and forecast upcoming requirements. * Coordinate with users for product evaluation and standardization. * Ensure critical supplies are available to support uninterrupted patient care. * Ensure adherence to approved procurement policies, delegation of authority, budgets, contracts, and vendor onboarding procedures. * Maintain proper documentation for quotations, purchase orders, comparative statements, approvals, and contracts. * Support internal, statutory, and procurement audits. * Ensure material/product procurement meets applicable hospital quality and safety requirements. Key KPIs * Hospital supply chain management * OPEX and budget management * Strategic sourcing and procurement * Inventory optimization * Vendor development and negotiation * Cost and spend analysis * Contract and rate negotiation * Advanced Excel / MIS reporting * ERP/SAP/Oracle or hospital ERP exposure * Strong analytical and stakeholder\-management skills Work Location: Chennai, India Availability: Full time

also be considered. 4\. Cost Optimization 6\. Compliance \& Governance * OPEX savings against budget * Procurement cost reduction % * Purchase price variance * Inventory holding / inventory days * Stock\-out % * Inventory turnover ratio * Expiry and wastage % * Non\-moving/slow\-moving inventory * Emergency purchase % * Vendor OTIF % * PO turnaround time * Contract compliance % * Vendor quality/rejection rate Required Skills Key Skills: Procurement, Purchase Orders, Materials Management Salary: Not disclosed