Senior Procurement Leader | Capital Equipment | Chennai

About the role

A successful candidate will hold an Engineering degree with 20+ years of procurement leadership experience within heavy engineering, EPC, capital equipment, steel plant equipment, industrial machinery, or plant engineering . The individual should have managed ₹300+ Cr annual procurement spend covering raw materials, fabricated components, bought-out items, contract manufacturing, and supplier development .

What you'll do

• Lead end-to-end procurement, expediting, and supplier management for our Sri City capital equipment manufacturing facility
• Drive strategic sourcing across raw materials, fabricated components, bought-out items, contract manufacturing, and engineering services
• Improve supplier performance, on-time delivery, cost optimization, and business continuity through structured procurement governance
• Partner with production, planning, engineering, quality, warehouse, logistics, and project teams to support manufacturing and project execution
• Build strategic supplier partnerships, strengthen vendor capability, and drive procurement digitization through SAP and analytics

What you need

• 20–30 yrs of experience
• Procurement
• Vendor management
• SAP
• Logistics
• Production planning
• B.Tech or B.E.