KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. PROCUREMENT PLANNING & MATERIAL AVAILABILITY

- Translate the production plan and demand forecast into a time-phased material procurement plan, ensuring on-time availability against build schedules.

- Manage lead times, minimum order quantities (MOQs), reorder points, and safety-stock targets in coordination with Production/Inventory Control, without overstepping internal inventory ownership.

- Balance material availability against working-capital and inventory-holding constraints; avoid both line stoppages and excess/obsolete stock.

- Maintain accurate procurement data (lead times, MOQs, pricing, supplier terms) in the ERP/planning system as the basis for planning decisions.

1. STRATEGIC SOURCING & PROCUREMENT

- Own strategic sourcing across the supply base: identify, evaluate, and onboard suppliers; run RFQs; and make award decisions on total-cost-of-ownership, not unit price alone.

- Develop and maintain multi-source strategies for critical items to reduce single-source exposure and lead-time risk.

- Negotiate pricing, payment terms, delivery terms, and supply agreements; drive year-on-year cost-down and commercial improvement programs.

- Structure and manage supplier contracts, MSAs, price validity, and rate contracts to protect continuity and cost stability.

- Coordinate laterally with the Procurement & Supplier Development function on tactical and domestic sourcing execution.

1. SUPPLIER MANAGEMENT & PERFORMANCE

- Own the supplier relationship at a commercial and performance level: set expectations, review performance, and drive improvement.

- Define and track supplier KPIs (on-time delivery, quality (PPM), responsiveness, and NCR/corrective-action closure) and run periodic supplier reviews.

- Manage supplier capacity planning and readiness to support production ramp and scale.

- Escalate and manage under-performing suppliers,



including containment, improvement plans, and re-sourcing where warranted.

1. SUPPLIER QUALITY RESOLUTION & CORRECTIVE ACTION

- Act as the commercial and coordination owner for supplier-related quality issues: when Quality flags a supplier non-conformance, drive resolution with the supplier to closure.

- Raise and manage Supplier Corrective Action Requests (SCAR); drive 8D/CAPA problem-solving with suppliers and track containment, correction, and preventive action to completion.

- Coordinate containment, replacement, rework, or return logistics and manage the commercial recovery (debit notes, cost recovery) where applicable.

- Interface with Quality throughout. Quality retains technical root-cause validation and disposition/acceptance. This role owns the supplier-facing execution and commercial closure.

1. LOGISTICS & MATERIAL FLOW

- Manage inbound logistics (domestic and import), outbound dispatch of finished goods, and associated freight, forwarder, and 3PL relationships.

- Own import logistics: Incoterms selection, customs clearance coordination, documentation, HSN/duty classification support, and freight cost/lead-time optimization.

- Optimize logistics cost, transit time, and reliability; manage packaging, dispatch, and delivery performance to internal and customer requirements.

- Ensure traceability of inbound and outbound material movements through the ERP system.

1. SUPPLY RISK, CHANGE CONTROL & COMPLIANCE





- Identify and mitigate supply risks (single-source exposure, allocation/lead-time volatility, geopolitical and logistics disruption) and maintain contingency and buAer strategies.

- Maintain Approved Vendor List (AVL) discipline: no supplier or source substitution on controlled items without Engineering and Quality sign-oA, ensuring changes flow through formal engineering-change management.

- Ensure procurement and supplier processes are documented, traceable, and audit-ready to support product certification and regulatory compliance.

- Support statutory, tax, and trade-compliance requirements associated with domestic and imported procurement.

1. CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COLLABORATION & SYSTEMS

- Work closely with Engineering (for new-part introduction, BOM changes, and sourcing feasibility), Production/Inventory (for planning and availability), and Quality (for supplier issues).

- Drive procurement and supply-chain workflows through the ERP/PLM system, improve data accuracy, process discipline, and reporting.

- Participate in recent-product introduction (NPI) to ensure sourcing, supplier readiness, and lead time feasibility are addressed early.

PERFORMANCE METRICS (KPIs)

- Material availability / schedule adherence (line-down incidents, stock-out rate).

- Procurement cost performance (cost-down achieved, PPV).

- Supplier on-time delivery and quality (PPM).

- Supplier corrective-action closure time (SCAR/8D closure rate).

- Inventory/working-capital eAiciency for procured material (in coordination with Inventory Control).

- Logistics cost and inbound/outbound lead-time performance.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in EV, automotive, power electronics, electronics, or other regulated/certified hardware manufacturing.
- Exposure to product certification and change-control-driven supply environments.

📌 Scm Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 Roadgrid India
📍 Bengaluru