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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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 new-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.
