Assistant Manager - Mechanical Commodity

Job Summary

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we're looking to add an Assistant Manager - Mechanical Commodity in Chennai, India.

What a typical day looks like:

• Meet business and individual objectives, including material cost downs, payment terms improvement, best value country sourcing objectives, inventory management as well as others.
• Collaborate with Global Commodity Managers and drive the cost reductions.
• Manage all supplier relationships within assigned commodities, including globally.
• Understands Global & Regional Mechanical commodity also its supplier base thoroughly.
• Work closely with Engineering to influence technical design decisions to meet technical capabilities, cost, and business objectives.
• Develop a commodity / Supplier Strategy's technology roadmaps, aligning business requirements with supplier capabilities.
• Ensure a competitive sourcing environment leading to continuous improvement in quality, cost, service and technology. Regular BOM and Component Cost reviews.
• Sets category strategies, goals and KPIs to optimize spend, reduce risk and improve supplier performance and influences business partner strategy and decision making through market intel and data insights
• Ability to work under pressure and in a complex global environment balancing a broad spectrum of stakeholder requirements
• Ensure timely updation of all Commodity influenced databases to support financial/product cost tracking and analytics Like – Item Master, Pricing Database, LTs , MOQs, NCNR terms and conditions influencing total cost.
• Execute strategic sourcing partnerships to deliver on cost reduction, spend consolidation, improved DPO, Inventory and improved quality
• Able to pull reports from MicroStrategy and Kinaxis to work on multiple spend related data to identify opportunities to improve PPV and CR.
• Passion for continuous improvement in process.

The experience we're looking to add to our team:

• BE in Mechanical (or) related Engineering.
• MBA in supply chain/operations management is an advantage.
• Strong knowledge about mechanical commodities
• Experience working in Auto/Manufacturing industry.
• Expert in English Communication and presentation skills.
• Good Knowledge on MS Office tools, MicroStrategy, Kinaxis preferred.
• Strong analytical skills and logical thinking
• Expertise to work on should cost Model, PCB Gerber evaluation and other cost models.