Strategic Sourcing - Metals

Exponent Energy; Heggadadevanakote; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Exponent Energy is building a team to source metal components for Exponent Enabled Electric Vehicles. You will own strategic sourcing with supplier partners, engineering, product and operations to deliver rapid charging products to market.

The ideal candidate brings 4–5 years of strategic sourcing experience in metal components, strong problem-solving and data-driven decision-making skills. You will collaborate across fabrication, stamping, casting parts, and fasteners to enable cost-effective

Qualifications

• 4–5 years of experience in strategic sourcing, preferably with metal components.
• Strong problem-solving, attention to detail and customer-first attitude.
• Ability to drive data-driven decisions and analytics for supplier performance.

Responsibilities

• Drive supplier relationships to meet cost, quality, delivery and localisation targets.
• Negotiate prices, contracts and onboard suppliers aligned with new product development.
• Lead sourcing projects and build capabilities with partners across fabrication, stamping, casting, fasteners and adhesives.
• Drive should costing for NPD projects and benchmark cost and quality.
• Identify suppliers, capabilities, or technologies to boost productivity.
• Foster supplier engagements to enhance innovation and quality across products.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Data-driven decisions

Cost optimization

Supplier relationship mgmt

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