About the role
This role is for someone who has bought direct materials for a manufacturer and lived through RFQs, supplier follow-ups, techno-commercial comparisons and negotiations.
And who, along the way, stopped accepting supplier quotes at face value and started asking: what should this part actually cost? Someone who has opened a drawing or a BOM, built the number up from material, process, cycle time, machine hours and overhead, and then gone into a negotiation knowing they were right.
If that sounds like you, keep reading.
What we're building
Stozia is building an AI-native procurement platform for manufacturers. At its core is cost intelligence: should-costing, zero-based costing and commercial benchmarking. It lets sourcing teams stop negotiating blind and start negotiating from a defensible number.
You'll work hands-on with the platform: costing parts, testing sourcing workflows, finding where the outputs go wrong, and making them better.
What you'll work on
Should-costing
• Build and validate bottom-up should-costs from drawings, BOMs and process routes: material, process,



cycle time, machine hour rate (MHR), labour, overhead, rejection and margin.
• Review platform-generated cost outputs line by line, identify errors and their root cause, and document them clearly.
• Work across categories: machined parts, forgings, castings, welded fabrications, sheet metal, assemblies and bought-outs.
• Maintain and improve reference data: MHR cards, cycle-time and labour-time tables, and raw material rates.
• Take ownership of the AI agents’ costing logic and instructions (prompts): find gaps, improve them, and validate every change on live costing runs.
Sourcing
• Test the end-to-end sourcing flow on the platform: PR to RFQ, supplier queries, quote receipt, comparison and negotiation. Report defects clearly.
• Validate techno-commercial comparisons: spec compliance, deviations, exclusions and like-for-like scope.
• Check price normalisation and landed cost: FX, Inco

📌 Sourcing & Should-Cost Specialist (Pune)
🏢 Stozia
📍 Pune