Sourcing & SCM Head

Your activities

• Strategic Sourcing & Market Trends: Lead the development and execution of sourcing strategies that align with business objectives. Forecast market trends and ensure
• a responsive supply chain that mitigates risks and leverages emerging opportunities in materials and procurement technologies.Localization & Supplier Development:
• Spearhead efforts to localize suppliers by developing robust relationships with local vendors for sheet metal parts, castings,
• forgings, brass, special SS materials, and electrical items. Ensure vendors are aligned with the company’s quality, cost, and delivery
• goals.Inventory Control & Cost Optimization:
• Manage inventory levels effectively, aligning procurement with demand forecasts. Optimize costs through strategic negotiations
• and vendor selection while ensuring consistent quality and timely deliveries (OTD).Vendor Selection & Qualification:
• Lead the technical site assessments and supplier qualification processes, collaborating with cross-functional teams including
• engineering, manufacturing, and quality to define criteria and ensure supplier capability. Oversee Advanced Product Quality
• Planning (APQP) with suppliers to guarantee process reliability.Supplier Performance & Audits:
• Develop KPIs to monitor and drive supplier performance across cost, quality, and delivery metrics. Conduct regular supplier audits,
• ensuring compliance with company standards and continuously improving supplier capabilities.Techno-Commercial Expertise:
• Leverage deep technical knowledge in materials such as sheet metal, castings, brass, and special SS materials to provide cost
• estimates, negotiate commercial terms, and resolve technical challenges. Ensure all commercial terms are strategically negotiated
• to drive company objectives.Project Procurement Management:
• Oversee procurement activities for key projects, ensuring timely sourcing and purchasing of materials like castings, forgings, brass,
• cutting tools, and consumables. Ensure close collaboration with the project and engineering teams to meet project deadlines and
• technical requirements.
• Supplier Relationship Management:
• Build and maintain strong relationships with domestic and international suppliers. Facilitate vendor development programs that
• ensure suppliers meet evolving business needs and are capable of supporting new projects or product developments.Innovation & Continuous Improvement:
• Stay at the forefront of sourcing innovations, adopting new strategies to drive cost savings, improve lead times, and increase
• supply chain agility. Lead initiatives to continuously improve sourcing processes and supplier development strategies.Team Leadership:
• Provide leadership to the sourcing and procurement teams, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and strategic thinking.
• Guide teams through major projects, supplier negotiations, and the resolution of complex supply chain challenges.
  
  

Your profile

• At least 12-15 years of experience in strategic sourcing and vendor development, with a focus on complex categories like sheet metal, castings, forgings, brass, special SS materials, and electrical items. Proven experience in leading both domestic and international procurement.
• Expertise in costing, quality requirements, and supplier development.
• Strong knowledge of APQP processes and supplier qualification.
• Proficiency in conducting technical site assessments and audits
• Location- Pune
  
  

Benefits:

• Work-life integration
• Pension scheme
• Employee discounts
• Attractive remuneration system
• Flexible working hours
• Good development opportunities
• Health initiatives
• Mobile working
  
  

The WIKA Group is among the world leaders in measurement technology with its products and services. With excellent sensing solutions, we enable safe, efficient and sustainable processes. And this for more than 75 years. More than 11,000 employees are currently committed towards this end.

Together we meet the megatrends of demographic change, digitalisation and sustainability. This brings with it challenges, and many opportunities. Innovation and growth arise from new perspectives and ideas. What are yours? Join us on the way to a better future.

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