Job Description
This Manager role involves leading and mentoring a team, developing sourcing strategies for plant materials, and identifying and evaluating suppliers. Key responsibilities include driving cost-saving initiatives, managing supplier relationships, and improving supplier payables. The role also requires expertise in engineering change management, localization efforts, and resolving supplier issues, with a strong focus on manufacturing process understanding and cost drivers.
Good To Have:
- Good team player and good interpersonal skills
- Result orientation is key to position
- Understanding of supplier finance risk assessment tools and techniques
Must Have:
- Lead and mentor team
- Develop and execute sourcing strategies for plant materials, consumables, and indirect goods
- Identify, evaluate and develop suppliers
- Support and lead Cost saving Initiatives for the plant
- Manage supplier relationship at the plant level
- Work with cross functional team to generate cost reduction opportunities
- Manage and improve supplier payables
- Engineering change management and execution
- Drive plant level localization
- Resolution of supplier issues
- Supplier commercial due diligence
- Ability to work with supplier senior management team
- Manufacturing process understanding of Plastics injection and extrusion, Rubber, Sheet Metal, Cables, Electrical and electronics component needed
- Exposure to harness industry or harness component related industry
- Good understanding on costing and various drivers of cost in manufacturing.
Roles and Responsibilities :
- Lead and mentor team
- Develop and execute sourcing strategies for plant materials, consumables, and indirect goods
- Identify, evaluate and develop suppliers
- Support and lead Cost saving Initiatives for the plant
- Manage supplier relationship at the plant level
- Work with cross functional team to generate cost reduction opportunities
- Manage and improve supplier payables
- Engineering change management and execution
- Drive plant level localization
- Resolution of supplier issues
- Supplier commercial due diligence
- Ability to work with supplier senior management team
- Manufacturing process understanding of Plastics injection and extrusion, Rubber, Sheet Metal, Cables, Electrical and electronics component needed
- Should have exposure to harness industry or harness component related industry
- Good understanding on costing and various drivers of cost in manufacturing.
- Good team player and good interpersonal skills
- Result orientation is key to position
- Understanding of supplier finance risk assessment tools and techniques
Skills/ Qualification Requirement
BTech ( Mechanical / Production / Electrical)
15 - 20 year of experience in, cost modeling, supplier management, category buying
Expertise level competence on Excel sheets
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