Business Materials Head

Uno Minda Group; Rewari; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Uno Minda Group is seeking a Business Materials Head to lead strategic sourcing, capex procurement, and supplier management for manufacturing operations in Haryana. You will drive cost targets, manage supplier performance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely supply of materials.

The role requires strong negotiation, costing, and process management skills, with an emphasis on meeting quality, delivery, and compliance standards across TS 16949 and ISO 14001 frameworks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or higher in Industrial/Mechanical Engineering. MBA in SCM preferred.
• Experience in supply chain analytics and strategic sourcing.
• Knowledge of capex management and manufacturing costings.
• Understanding of import/export taxation, PLI schemes, FTP/FTA.
• Proven ability to manage timelines and supplier relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead vendor relationship management and optimize cost targets.
• Oversee capex buying for tools, dies, jigs, fixtures, and assembly lines within budget.
• Evaluate cost corrections and VA/VE ideas with stakeholders and obtain approvals.
• Plan BOP procurement and services per production plans in discussion with leaders.
• Collaborate with category heads to define viable sourcing objectives.
• Identify and shortlist suppliers for subcontracting and offloading, and coordinate with manufacturing and quality teams.
• Support costing verification with the costing cell per patterns and norms.
• Ensure suppliers meet TS 16949, ISO 14001 and other requirements; monitor performance.

Skills

Supply Chain Analytics

SCM Technology & Process Management

Negotiation

Capex Management

Import/Export Taxation

Strategic Sourcing

Manufacturing Costing

Time & Resource Management

People Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Industrial/Mechanical Engineering

MBA in SCM Management

Job description

12 - 18 Years

Staff

Job Description

ROLE DESCRIPTOR CONFIDENTIAL

ROLE DESCRIPTOR

Business Materials Head

Job Title

Business Materials Head

Reporting To

Business Head

Role Purpose

Responsible for ensuring timely sourcing & development of materials to meet the businesses operational requirements with adherence to SLAs and cost parameters, scout market to identify new suppliers for New Project and drive negotiations with vendors to achieve the budgeted cost target.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead relationship management with vendor partners and actualized BOP cost parameters to enable cost optimization as per PFS Cost targets.
• Responsible for timely & efficient capex buying related to tools & dies, jigs & fixture & assy line & ensure the budget cost control.
• Evaluate the cost corrections, ECN Cost Impact, VA/VE cost saving idea with internal & external stakeholder as per the budgeted price and take approval from corporate for the implementation.
• Preparing plans for BOP Procurement, Services as per the production plan in discussion with business leaders
• Work with Category Heads to establish viable, cost effective, and strategic sourcing objectives
• Responsible for identifying / shortlisting of suppliers for Sub Contracting & Sub Assy Offloading. Calculate the benefits (Off-loading cost saving - In long Terms). Co-ordinate with Mfg. & Quality team for the identification for Sub Contracting & Offloading parts / Products
• Support & co-ordinate with the costing cell for PFS Costing verification as per the approved patterns & norms with the category suppliers.
• Assess new and existing supplier capabilities to meet product, cost, quality, capacity and ensuring suppliers are able to meet requirements for performance, quality, cost and delivery of components and requirements for TS 16949, ISO 14001 and other applicable customer and internal system requirements
• Develop positive relationships and work closely with suppliers to track & manage supplier related information such as supplier development capability & capacity studies, delivery times, product and price ranges
• Ensure timely availability of material by proactively resolving any issues (highlighted by units) and by observing strict adherence to pricing guidelines and vendor SLAs
• Oversee maintenance of Inventory and other related MIS/records

Supplier capability & Performance

• Scout market information and entrepreneurial companies to identify potential sources and suppliers and provide inputs to the corporate team on emerging market trends, new suppliers etc. for the preparation of procurement policy and guidelines
• Review supplier’s performance indicators in form of QCDD, Supplier facilitate & capability to develop new parts & ability to consistently meet or exceed defined expectations
• Work closely with Quality team to resolve quality related issues with vendor partners
• Specify, develop, and validate advanced technology, quality information and test equipment at Supplied end
• Provide correlation with Supplier facilities and develop product acceptance/test procedures that relate to a complex process (state-of-the-art) or highly complex product

Competency Management

• coordination and coaching to the team
• ensuring they are trained enabling them to achieve the operational and financial metrics within their areas of responsibility and succeed in their roles

Required Qualification & Experience

• - Bachelors (Industrial/Mechanical Engineering), MBA in SCM Management preferred
• Supply Chain Analytics
• SCM Technology & Process Management
• Negotitation
• Capex Management
• Import and export Taxation,PLI Scheme,FTA etc
• Strategic Sourcing Management
• Manufacturing Process Understanding & Component Costing
• Result oriented
• Knowledge & learning
• Time & resource Management
• People Management

Job Snapshot

Updated Date

21/10/2026

Job ID

JOB_886

Department

UML - Casting Division - Bawal