Responsibilities and Key Accountabilities:

- Role has equal responsibility of new business development and smooth execution of the placed business.

- Sourcing from multiple media, websites, trade shows for new suppliers / new products in India region.

- Source, evaluate, develop and grow suppliers/manufacturers relationship within product category.

- Identify business chance and line up feasible suppliers through validation to drive gross margin improvement, cost competitiveness, PB penetration and incremental sales,

- Organize cost/business comparison sheets and additional supporting documentation to provide a comprehensive analysis on product specifications and cost to assist decision makers (Manager/Product Development Merchants) to present to the Merchant Teams.

- Support PLR/CTR & RBR events & Fair Meetings for merchants.

- Provide coaching to suppliers during the on boarding process to ensure compliance and documents collection: SSK, SBA, RTV, NDA, Financial and Legal certifications, etc.

- Prepare and administer completion of vendor profile, FCQA, SWOT analysis and factory visit reports.

- Maintain existing supplier information, including contact list, signed SBA, RTV, NDA, Financial and Legal certification, company profile,



product photo recap, etc.

- File and correctly group new catalogues.

- Prepare agenda for key project conference call and record meeting minutes.

- Assist in the arrangement of trip itineraries and the arrangement of accommodation including hotel booking and transportation.

- Daily communication with Supply Chain, IPR for projects follow up.

- Coordinate with cross-functional teams.

- Identify risk in delivery, and prepare factory visit plan based on priority, routes easiness and efficiency, prior to and during shipping period.

- Request financial assessment and take actions on factories with High and Medium to High risk, including factory visit and come up with recommendation for risk mitigation.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelors degree in engineering or other technical background.

- Candidate must have above 10 years of experience for relevant product categories.

- Understanding of Indian Manufacturing and Vendor landscape.

- Understanding of Supply chain diversification.

- High level of efficiency and proactivity.

- Product Categories- Tools (Electrical, Mechanical and Plumbing etc.), Hard goods.

📌 Sourcing Specialist (Gurugram)
🏢 RGBSI
📍 Gurugram