You'll be working with the Supply Chain team.

This team runs on supplier negotiations, spend analysis and coffee (with suppliers of course). The team has an infectious passion for building deep and engaging relationships with our supplier partners and developing capabilities to manufacture innovative products and components.

Our philosophy: Break. Believe. Build

Break stuff. Break assumptions. Break the thumb rule.

Believe in the team. Believe in the process. Believe through failures.

Build quick. Build passionately. Build to simplify.

What You Will Do

In this role, you will own the strategic sourcing of all Metal components, working closely with supplier partners, engineering, product and operations teams to deliver Exponent Enabled Electric Vehicles with 15-minute rapid charging to the market.

Responsibilities

Drive supplier relationships to deliver supplier partner metrics of cost, quality, delivery & localisation
Negotiate prices, contracts and on-board suppliers in tandem with new product development
Drive sourcing projects,



and build process capabilities with partners across Fabrication, Stamping, Casting parts and Fasteners, Adhesives
Drive should costing for the NPD projects
Benchmark cost & quality; identify suppliers, process capabilities, or technologies that will drive productivity
Drive supplier engagements to further innovation & quality across products

The ideal candidate requires

Relevant 4 to 5 years of experience with strategic sourcing, metal components
Structured problem-solving, detail orientation, and customer-first attitude
Data-driven decision making

What Matters

Empathy toward all customers
Holding Context as your guiding force
Approach towards problem-solving
A positive attitude
Resilient attitude to bounce back after failure

About Us

Exponent simplifies energy for EVs.

Co-founded by Arun Vinayak (Ather Energy's Founding Partner & Former Chief Product Officer) and Sanjay Byalal (Former hardware strategic sourcing and cell str

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