Sourcing Specialist

RGBSI; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

RGBSI is seeking an experienced professional in Chennai to drive new business development and ensure smooth execution of supplier engagements. The role involves sourcing from multiple media, evaluating suppliers, and growing vendor relationships across Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing, and related hard goods.

You will organize cost analyses, support events for merchants, and coach suppliers through onboarding, documentation, and compliance processes, while coordinating with Supply Chain and IPR

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or technical field or equivalent.
• 10+ years of experience in relevant product categories.
• Understanding of Indian manufacturing and vendor landscape.
• Understanding of supply chain diversification.
• High level of efficiency and proactivity.
• Product categories include tools (Electrical, Mechanical and Plumbing) and hard goods.

Responsibilities

• Drive new business development and ensure smooth execution of placed business.
• Source and evaluate suppliers and products in India.
• Develop and grow supplier relationships within product categories.
• Identify opportunities to improve gross margin, cost competitiveness and incremental sales.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams and manage vendor onboarding and compliance.

Skills

New business development

Supplier relationship management

Sourcing and vendor evaluation

Cross-functional coordination

Risk assessment

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or technical field

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.