Role & responsibilities
- Drive strategic sourcing and procurement cost-reduction initiatives across automotive direct material categories.
- Lead supplier negotiations, cost benchmarking and commercial optimization.
- Identify and implement value engineering and Value Analysis / Value Engineering (VA/VE) opportunities.
- Develop and execute sourcing strategies to optimize total procurement costs.
- Work closely with suppliers, procurement teams and business stakeholders to identify savings opportunities.
- Conduct spend analysis, should-cost analysis and supplier performance assessments.
- Deliver measurable cost savings across multiple procurement categories. Preferred candidate profile Candidates who have previously worked in automotive OEMs or auto-component manufacturing companies and subsequently moved into consulting will be preferred. Candidates with consulting backgrounds and hands-on automotive procurement transformation project experience will also be considered.

📌 Manager (Mumbai)
🏢 VBeyond
📍 Mumbai