Executive – Sourcing (5‑7 years experience)

Overview

Leads end‑to‑end sourcing and procurement activities for building‑materials and product lines, ensuring compliance with European regulations, cost‑effectiveness, and quality standards. Acts as the primary liaison between internal stakeholders, suppliers, and European customers.

Key Responsibilities

- Design and execute sourcing strategies that optimize cost, quality, and delivery for direct and indirect spend.
- Manage inward logistics – supplier consolidation, packing, labeling, and stock‑taking.
- Conduct supplier search, assessment, and performance monitoring; enforce SLA adherence and metrics tracking.
- Negotiate contracts and terms, ensuring compliance with European compliances and LC requirements.
- Coordinate with procurement, quality, and engineering teams to support product development and seasonal fresh‑produce sourcing.
- Develop and maintain procurement dashboards, custom reports, and KPI visualisations using data‑integration tools (e.g., Salesforce, Siebel).
- Lead cross‑functional meetings, present purchasing performance, and provide advisory input on best practices.
- Support hiring managers in talent acquisition for procurement and supply‑chain roles; track recruitment metrics.
- Customer relationship management.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives and foster a culture of long‑term cost savings.

Required Qualifications

- 5‑7 years of proven experience in procurement, sourcing, or supply‑chain management.
- Demonstrated exposure to European markets and compliance frameworks.
- Solid negotiation skills and a track record of managing supplier contracts.




- Ability to generate and analyse reporting dashboards; proficient in MS Excel.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder‑management capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical / Production Engineering, Supply‑Chain Management, Business, or related field; diploma/certification in logistics is a plus.
- Experience with Ariba, CPQ tools, or other e‑procurement solutions.
- Managing multi‑disciplinary projects.

Technical & Functional Skills

- Procurement & supplier assessment
- Supply‑chain planning & logistics coordination
- Product sourcing (building materials, fresh produce)
- European regulatory compliance & LC terms
- Negotiation & contract management
- KPI development, dashboard creation, data analytics

A 360-year young organization with strong pillars on value system and customer centricity, Saint-Gobain employs

176,000 people across 64 countries with over 90 nationalities. A fortune 500 company, Saint-Gobain is recognized among the 100 most innovative and 100 most sustainable corporations on earth. Saint-Gobain has pioneered several Products, Marketing, Manufacturing, Application, Sustainability, Human Resources Innovations, Knowledge, and Skill Development that helped in the emergence of product differentiation and segmentation in the industry.

In India we are today a community of united entrepreneurs who believe talent is infinite and can continuously shape the future, every day.

The strategy of responsible growth is guided by the Saint-Gobain Group’s purpose, “MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER HOME”, which responds to the shared ambition of everyone in the Group to act every day to make the world a more beautiful and sustainable place to live in.

📌 Executive - Sourcing (Mumbai)
🏢 Holding u0026 Peg
📍 Mumbai