Responsibilities & Key Deliverables

Develop and implement sourcing strategies for Plastic Parts, Systems, and Tooling to achieve business objectives related to cost, supply continuity, technology, and risk management. Build a competitive and resilient supplier ecosystem through strategic partnerships, localization, and commercial optimization.

Key Result Areas
- Develop and execute commodity sourcing strategies for plastics.
- Manage and strengthen the supplier base, including alternate source development.
- Achieve cost reduction targets through negotiation, value engineering, localization, and benchmarking.
- Mitigate raw material price impact and supply chain risks.
- Identify and adopt competitive product and process technologies.
- Ensure timely supplier onboarding and readiness for current projects.
- Drive supplier capacity planning to support business growth.
- Improve sourcing efficiencies through process improvements, digitization, and DWM.
- Increase common sourcing opportunities across businesses.
- Drive sustainability, compliance, and responsible sourcing initiatives.




- Lead commodity budgeting, forecasting, and spend management.
- Leverage market intelligence and spend analytics to improve sourcing decisions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to achieve business objectives.
- Manage supplier performance across cost, quality, delivery, capacity, and innovation parameters.
- Enhance internal customer and supplier experience through effective stakeholder management.
- Build a high-performing team through capability development and employee engagement.
- Act as the subject matter expert for plastics and advise on sourcing, localization, capacity expansion, and technology adoption

Preferred Industries

Automobile
Farm Sector

Education Qualification

Engineering Graduate (Plastics/ Mechanical/ Production) + MBA (preferred)

General Experience

4 to 7 yrs experience (for smaller commodity we do consider GET/GATs with 1 yrs exp

Critical Experience
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📌 Commodity Lead (Mumbai)
🏢 Mahindra & Mahindra
📍 Mumbai