Strategic Sourcing - Metals

Exponent Energy; Bangalore Rural; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Exponent Energy is seeking a sourcing professional to own the strategic sourcing of metal components, collaborating with supplier partners, engineering, product and operations to bring Exponent Enabled Electric Vehicles to market.

You will drive supplier relationships, negotiate prices and contracts, and lead cost benchmarking and process improvements across fabrication, stamping, casting, fasteners and adhesives, while ensuring empathy for customers and data-driven decisions.

Qualifications

• 4–5 years of experience in strategic sourcing for metal components.
• Structured problem-solving and detail orientation.
• Data-driven decision making.

Responsibilities

• Own strategic sourcing of all metal components with cross-functional teams.
• Negotiate prices, contracts and onboard suppliers with new product development.
• Drive supplier relationships to meet cost, quality, delivery and localisation metrics.
• Lead sourcing projects and build process capabilities with fabrication, stamping, casting, fasteners, adhesives.
• Benchmark cost and quality; identify suppliers or technologies to drive productivity.
• Drive supplier engagements to foster innovation and quality across products.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Metal components

Structured problem-solving

Data-driven decision making

Detail orientation

Customer-first attitude

Job description

You’ll be working with the Supply Chain team.

This team runs on supplier negotiations, spend analysis and coffee (with suppliers of course). The team has an infectious passion for building deep and engaging relationships with our supplier partners and developing capabilities to manufacture innovative products and components.

Our philosophy: Break. Believe. Build

Break stuff. Break assumptions. Break the thumb rule.

Believe in the team. Believe in the process. Believe through failures.

Build fast. Build passionately. Build to simplify.

What you will do

In this role, you will own the strategic sourcing of all Metal components, working closely with supplier partners, engineering, product and operations teams to deliver Exponent Enabled Electric Vehicles with 15-minute rapid charging to the market.

Responsibilities

• Drive supplier relationships to deliver supplier partner metrics of cost, quality, delivery & localisation
• Negotiate prices, contracts and on-board suppliers in tandem with new product development
• Drive sourcing projects, and build process capabilities with partners across Fabrication, Stamping, Casting parts and Fasteners, Adhesives.
• Drive should costing for the NPD projects.
• Benchmark cost & quality; identify suppliers, process capabilities, or technologies that will drive productivity
• Drive supplier engagements to further innovation & quality across products

The ideal candidate requires

• Relevant 4 to 5 years of experience with strategic sourcing, metal components
• Structured problem-solving, detail orientation, and customer-first attitude
• Data-driven decision making

What matters

• Empathy toward all customers
• Holding Context as your guiding force
• Approach towards problem-solving
• A positive attitude
• Resilient attitude to bounce back after failure

About Us

Exponent simplifies energy for EVs.

Co-founded by Arun Vinayak (Ather Energy's Founding Partner & Former Chief Product Officer) and Sanjay Byalal (Former hardware strategic sourcing and cell strategy lead, Ather and Former Supply Chain Lead, HUL), Exponent focuses on solving two sides of the energy problem by building the e^pump (charging station) and e^pack (battery pack) which together unlock 15-min rapid charging

The 200+ strong team has tons of EV experience and is in the process of hiring more professionals to build & scale Exponent as one of the best EV Energy Companies out of India