Sourcing Specialist

RGBSI; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

RGBSI is seeking an experienced professional in Bengaluru to drive new business development and ensure smooth execution with placed business. The role involves sourcing suppliers across India, evaluating supplier performance, and growing supplier relationships within product categories.

You will identify opportunities to improve margins, cost competitiveness, and incremental sales, while coordinating with cross-functional teams and guiding supplier onboarding and risk mitigation efforts

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or other technical background.
• 10+ years of experience in relevant product categories and vendor management.
• Understanding of Indian Manufacturing and vendor landscape.
• Experience in supply chain diversification and risk assessment.

Responsibilities

• Sourcing from multiple media, websites, and trade shows for new suppliers/products in India.
• Evaluate and develop supplier relationships within product categories.
• Identify opportunities to improve gross margins, cost competitiveness, and incremental sales.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to drive projects.

Skills

Vendor mgmt

Supply chain

Cost analysis

Cross-functional

Risk mitigation

Education

Bachelor's in engineering

Job description

Responsibilities and Key Accountabilities:

• Role has equal responsibility of new business development and smooth execution of the placed business.
• Sourcing from multiple media, websites, trade shows for new suppliers / new products in India region.
• Source, evaluate, develop and grow suppliers/manufacturers relationship within product category.
• Identify business opportunity and line up feasible suppliers through validation to drive gross margin improvement, cost competitiveness, PB penetration and incremental sales,
• Organize cost/business comparison sheets and additional supporting documentation to provide a comprehensive analysis on product specifications and cost to assist decision makers (Manager/Product Development Merchants) to present to the Merchant Teams.
• Support PLR/CTR & RBR events & Fair Meetings for merchants.
• Provide coaching to suppliers during the on boarding process to ensure compliance and documents collection: SSK, SBA, RTV, NDA, Financial and Legal certifications, etc.
• Prepare and administer completion of vendor profile, FCQA, SWOT analysis and factory visit reports.
• Maintain existing supplier information, including contact list, signed SBA, RTV, NDA, Financial and Legal certification, company profile, product photo recap, etc.
• File and correctly group new catalogues.
• Prepare agenda for key project conference call and record meeting minutes.
• Assist in the arrangement of trip itineraries and the arrangement of accommodation including hotel booking and transportation.
• Daily communication with Supply Chain, IPR for projects follow up.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams.
• Identify risk in delivery, and prepare factory visit plan based on priority, routes easiness and efficiency, prior to and during shipping period.
• Request financial assessment and take actions on factories with High and Medium to High risk, including factory visit and come up with recommendation for risk mitigation.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in engineering or other technical background.
• Candidate must have above 10 years of experience for relevant product categories.
• Understanding of Indian Manufacturing and Vendor landscape.
• Understanding of Supply chain diversification.
• High level of efficiency and proactivity.
• Product Categories- Tools (Electrical, Mechanical and Plumbing etc.), Hard goods.