Supplier Manager
Role Summary
The Supplier Manager is responsible for owning and strengthening supplier performance, capability, capacity, quality, cost competitiveness, delivery reliability, and compliance across assigned commodity categories. The role leads supplier-management activities from supplier identification and onboarding through qualification, performance improvement, risk mitigation, and long-term relationship management.

Working closely with Procurement, Quality, Engineering, Manufacturing, Product Development, and Category Management teams, this position ensures suppliers support operational, quality, cost, sustainability, and supply-continuity objectives. Preference will be given to candidates from a Global MNC in the motors manufacturing industry, with motors commodity experience and exposure to PPAP, Lean, and Six Sigma.

Key Responsibilities
Supplier Management and Performance Ownership
- Own supplier performance for assigned commodities across quality, delivery, cost, capacity, technical capability, responsiveness, and compliance; establish supplier scorecards,



KPIs, performance expectations, review mechanisms, and structured improvement plans.
- Build strong relationships with strategic, critical, and high-risk suppliers; act as the primary escalation point for supplier performance, quality, capacity, delivery, and compliance issues.
- Partner with Procurement and Category Management on sourcing strategies, supplier segmentation, supplier selection, localization, globalization, supplier rationalization, and supplier performance recovery.

Supplier Qualification and Onboarding
- Lead supplier onboarding, qualification, capability development, and approval activities for recent and existing suppliers, including assessment of manufacturing capability, process controls, capacity, quality systems, certifications, and readiness.
- Conduct supplier assessments, audits, capability evaluations, and PPAP reviews to support new supplier approvals and onboard

📌 Supplier Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 Flowserve Corporation
📍 Bengaluru