Buyer Engine

Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. is seeking a procurement professional to manage engine parts sourcing, cost reduction, and supplier development. You will coordinate with internal teams to ensure timely development and quality.

The role emphasizes negotiating with vendors, evaluating alternatives, and ensuring supply continuity for OE and spares. Strong communication and MS Office skills are valued.

Qualifications

• Ability to understand technical and commercial requirements of various components.
• Good negotiating skills and ability to read drawings.
• Ability to analyze capacity requirements.
• Ability to evaluate alternatives with Cost-benefit analysis.
• Strong execution orientation and problem solving approach.

Responsibilities

• Costing, negotiations and development of alternate sourcing; meet timelines and interact with internal agencies.
• Meet cost reduction targets by VA-VE; yield improvement, localizing parts and annual price negotiations.
• MIS reporting activities, budget making, vendor capacity assessment.
• Procurement of parts for OE and Spares; capacity planning with suppliers.
• Support MSIL QA team in resolving quality issues, controlling defects at vendor end.
• Rationalization of vendor layout on the basis of business over time.
• Ensuring business continuity with existing vendor base and strive for vendor excellence.

Skills

Negotiation

Vendor management

Drawing interpretation

Capacity planning

Cost-benefit analysis

Problem solving

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Role: Procurement of Engine Parts meeting QCDD parameters and alternate sourcing with timely development of parts

Responsibilities:

• Costing, negotiations and development of alternate sourcing of parts. Should meet development timelines; interact with different agencies within the company.
• Meet cost reduction targets by VA-VE; Yield improvement, inner parts localization, Annual price negotiations and other such cost reduction ideas etc.
• MIS reporting activities, budget making, vendor capacity assessment etc.
• Procurement of parts for OE and Spares supplies. Capacity planning with suppliers for meeting increasing/fluctuating requirements based on the demand for OE and spares
• To support MSIL QA team in resolving quality issues, controlling defects at vendor end
• Rationalization of vendor layout on the basis of Business Over Time
• Ensuring Business continuity plan with existing vendor base by achieving comprehensive excellence at vendors

Competency Requirements

Technical/ Functional:

• Ability to understand technical and commercial requirements of various components should have good negotiating skills should be able to read drawings, understand various manufacturing processes/ Die Layouts, proprietary parts etc.
• Ability to effectively communicate specific requirements with suppliers and monitor the overall development process at supplier end.
• Ability to analyze capacity requirements.
• Ability to evaluate alternatives with Cost-benefit analysis
• Strong execution orientation and problem solving approach

Behavioral: Objectivity ,Excellent interpersonal skills, Communication & presentation skills, Achievement orientation, Team player, Networking skills, Good Knowledge of MS Office, Daily use Software