Strategic Sourcing Manager - Bought Outs

Chart Industries; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Chart Industries in Chennai, India seeks a Strategic Sourcing Manager for Bought Outs to drive cost, quality, and risk management across supplier networks. The role requires strong costing, negotiation, and ESG instinct, with emphasis on localization and strategic partnerships.

You will lead sourcing strategies, evaluate supplier performance, and coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver competitive advantages in cryogenic equipment components.

Qualifications

• Strong costing knowledge with supplier base experience.
• Strong negotiation and vendor management capabilities.
• Analytical, technical, and problem-solving mindset.
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement sourcing strategies aligned with corporate goals for cost, quality, and risk management.
• Drive ESG initiatives and best practices within category and supplier network.
• Lead India localization projects and alternate sourcing strategies to support project requirements.
• Build strategic partnerships with suppliers to ensure reliability, innovation, and competitive advantage.
• Support proposals with early pricing engagement and cost estimation during product development.
• Negotiate global and local contracts to secure favourable commercial terms and compliance.
• Analyse category spend data to identify savings opportunities and optimize procurement performance.
• Monitor supplier performance and lead continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Cost optimization

Vendor management

Cross-functional collaboration

Negotiation skills

Education

Bachelor/Master in Mechanical/Production/Instrumentation/Manufacturing Engineering

MBA in supply chain/operations

Job description

Strategic Sourcing Manager - Bought Outs

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 600077

Company: Chart Industries

Ensuring Chart’s Success…

CHART INDUSTRIES, INC. (Chart) (NYSE: GTLS) is a leading independent global manufacturer of highly engineered equipment and services related to cryogenic gas processing and rotating equipment. In the cryogenic sector, the Chart brand is synonymous with the liquefaction, distribution, and storage of liquid gases, including oxygen, nitrogen, LNG, biogas, hydrogen, helium, and carbon dioxide. The acquisition of Howden expanded our portfolio to include air and gas handling products such as compressors, cooling fans, steam turbines, and more, expanding our offering of products and solutions across traditional markets and providing access to new ones such as nuclear, energy recovery, tunnel ventilation, mine safety, and electrification.

Chart products are widely used across industry, leisure, science, medicine, food and beverages, water treatment, and clean energy. The ability to combine multiple products to create complete end-to-end solutions is what makes Chart unique and has established the company as a pioneer in developing applications such as LNG to power, hydrogen, carbon capture, and cooling systems for high-energy users such as data centres, green steel, and many more.

What Will You Do?

Develop and implement sourcing strategies aligned with corporate goals for cost, quality, and risk management.

Drive ESG initiatives and best practices within category and supplier network.

Lead India localization projects and alternate sourcing strategies to support project requirements.

Build strategic partnerships with suppliers to ensure reliability, innovation, and competitive advantage.

Support proposals with early pricing engagement and cost estimation during product development.

Negotiate global and local contracts to secure favourable commercial terms and compliance.

Analyse categories spend data to identify savings opportunities and optimize procurement performance.

Cost Leadership, drive and achieve the category driven cost reduction projects and generate savings as per organizational requirements

Monitor supplier performance and lead continuous improvement initiatives

Your Physical Work Environment Will Require…

Compliance & Risk Management

Ensure adherence to company policies, regulatory requirements, and ethical sourcing standards.

Identify and mitigate supply chain risks proactively.

Provide regular reports on category performance, savings, and localization progress.

Your Experience Should Be...

Strong costing knowledge (mandatory) with contacts with supplier base for components like Heat Exchangers, Pressure vessels, Noise enclosure, Pumps, Sels, Flexible joints, Butterfly Valves, Gate Valve, ball valves, cryogenic valves, actuators, Bearing Housings, Couplings, LOS, fittings, trailers, braking systems, axles to name a few is highly desired.

Experience in Capex/ Opex is also desirable.

Strong negotiation and vendor management capabilities.

Ability to support customer RFQs with reliable cost inputs.

Strong analytical, technical, and problem-solving skills.

Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.

Educational Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in mechanical/ production/ instrumentation/ manufacturing engineering, MBA in supply chain / operations preferred.

7+ years of experience in strategic sourcing or category management.

Strong negotiation, analytical, and stakeholder management skills.

Knowledge of ESG, localization strategies, and digital procurement tools.

Chart Industries is an equal employment opportunity (EEO) employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicants because of his or her race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, military status, marital status, genetic information or any other reason prohibited by law. Additionally, it is and shall continue to be our policy to provide promotion and advancement opportunities in a non-discriminatory fashion.

Chart complies with applicable local, state, and federal statutes governing “equal employment opportunity” and nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfers, leave of absence, compensation and training.