Sr. Sourcing Engineer

Overview

Sr. Sourcing Engineer to lead strategic sourcing and supplier development across steel fabrication, machined components, and electrical categories.

What you'll do

• Develop and execute sourcing strategies for steel fabrication, precision machining, and electrical/mechanical categories.
• Handle end-to-end sourcing activities including supplier identification, RFQs, techno-commercial evaluations, negotiations, and contract finalization.
• Drive supplier consolidation/rationalization and monitor commodity market trends and supply risks.
• Identify, qualify, and develop suppliers; run capability assessments, process audits, and performance reviews.
• Support new product development phases by enabling supplier readiness for prototype, pilot, and production.
• Perform Zero-Based Costing, develop cost models, and challenge quotations via fact-based cost analysis; lead value engineering/value analysis for cost reductions.

What you'll need

• 9–10 years of sourcing and supplier management experience.
• Experience in supplier development, NPD/NPI, Zero-Based Costing, Value Engineering, localization, and strategic sourcing.
• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, production engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field.
• Skills in APQP & PPAP, Design for Manufacturing (DFM), and cost breakdown analysis.
• Experience with ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, etc.).
• Strong negotiation, influencing, analytical/problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.

Details

• Location: Pune, India.