Supplier Manager

About the role

The Supplier Manager is responsible for owning and strengthening supplier performance, capability, capacity, quality, cost competitiveness, delivery reliability, and compliance across assigned commodity categories. The role leads supplier-management activities from supplier identification and onboarding through qualification, performance improvement, risk mitigation, and long-term relationship management.

What you'll do

• Supplier Management and Performance Ownership
• Own supplier performance for assigned commodities across quality, delivery, cost, capacity, technical capability, responsiveness, and compliance
• Build strong relationships with strategic, critical, and high-risk suppliers; act as the primary escalation point for supplier performance, quality, capacity, delivery
• Partner with Procurement and Category Management on sourcing strategies, supplier segmentation, supplier selection, localization, globalization
• Lead supplier onboarding, qualification, capability development, and approval activities for new and existing suppliers

What you need

• 10–18 years in supply chain & logistics
• Vendor management
• Supply chain
• Procurement
• PPAP
• Negotiation
• Six Sigma
• B.Tech or B.E. or BBA

Good to have

• Kaizen
• Lean
• Root cause analysis