Manager - Strategic Sourcing (Casting Forging)

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 600077

Company: Chart Industries

_ Ensuring Chart’s Success _

_ What Will You Do?_

Strategic Sourcing:
- Lead Category Lead for Casting, Forging & Machining Categories.
- Develop and implement sourcing strategies aligned with corporate goals for cost, quality and risk management.
- Early engagement for supporting proposals on pricing
- Negotiate contracts and pricing to ensure synergy, cost-effectiveness and value creation
- Monitor market trends, supplier capabilities, and risks for strategic decisions and maintain competitive advantage.
- Analyse categories spend data to identify savings opportunities and optimize procurement performance.
- Cost reduction for the assigned category in line with Global initiatives

ESG :Drive ESG implementation for the Category within the organizations as well as with suppliers.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement:
- Leading India Localization projects from perspective of Category, driving localization/alternate sourcing as per requirement of projects




- Implementing best practices for digitization and process efficiency.
- Support cost estimation and sourcing decisions during product development.
- Monitor supplier performance and lead continuous improvement initiatives.

Global Sourcing:
- Coordinate with Global Category Managers and Business Units for Supplier Alignment
- Bid Support to Global teams.
- Negotiate global contracts ensuring competitive commercial terns and compliance.

Supplier Relationship Management:
- Building Strategic Partnership with suppliers to ensure reliability & innovation.
- Negotiate contracts and long-term agreements to secure favourable terms.
- Supplier Risk & Relationship management.

Cross-Functional Collaboration : Work closely with local and global stake holders including Proposals, Projects, Localization Leader, Local & Global Management.

Compliance & reporting:
- Ensure adherence to company policies, regu

📌 Manager - Strategic Sourcing (Casting Forging) (Chennai)
🏢 Chart Industries
📍 Chennai