Sourcing Specialist

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

Job summary

RGBSI is seeking a senior sourcing professional to drive new business development and manage end-to-end supplier engagement in India. You will source from multiple media, evaluate suppliers, and grow relationships within defined product categories to improve margins and drive incremental sales.

The role requires a technical background with 10+ years' experience, deep understanding of Indian manufacturing, and proactive risk management across sourcing, onboarding, and cross-functional

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent technical field.
• 10+ years of experience in relevant product categories.
• Strong understanding of Indian manufacturing and vendor landscape.
• Experience with supply chain diversification.
• High level of efficiency and proactivity.
• Product categories: Tools, Hard goods (Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing).

Responsibilities

• Develop and source new suppliers and products for the India region.
• Evaluate, develop and grow supplier relationships within product categories.
• Identify business opportunities to improve gross margins and sales.
• Organize cost and business comparisons to support decision making.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams and manage supplier onboarding.
• Prepare vendor profiles, factory visit reports, and risk mitigation plans.
• Daily communication with supply chain teams and project follow-up.

Skills

Vendor management

Sourcing strategies

Cross-functional collaboration

Supply chain understanding

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent

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.