Assistant/Deputy Manager - Buying, SCM
Mahindra Group · Posted Oct 21
Automotive, farm equipment, information technology, financial services, and hospitality services
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About the role
The Buying and Supply Chain Management function at Mahindra Group supports automotive manufacturing operations by managing procurement, material planning, and inventory across raw materials, WIP, and JIT supply. The role works closely with suppliers, manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, sourcing, and component development teams on MRP runs, shortage analysis, and EN implementation. It focuses on inventory optimization, capacity constraint management, and vendor-aid reconciliation to meet production and project schedules.
What you will do
- Knowledge about procurement process.
- Identify, create visibility, and drive actions risks associated with fulfilment of production requirements by closely working with suppliers, manufacturing, warehousing, logistics and all relevant stakeholders.
- Regularly work with manufacturing team for proactive shortages, short cycle shipments as well as production demands and proactive material planning.
- Drive the inventory control of Raw materials, WIP and JIT as per inventory entitlement as well as ensure control over slow moving/Obsolescence as per inventory policy.
- Further, keep on optimizing inventory levels and meeting the inventory days target.
- Identify and manage bottleneck and capacity constraints and improvement opportunities.
- Ensure timely dispatch of vendor aid materials to subcontractors and timely receipts of finished materials, reduce vendor-aid inventory discrepancy by monthly reconciliation.
- Close coordination with the cross-functional team to meet the project schedule.
- Work closely with sourcing and Component development teams to ensure successful roll out of the new parts.
- Analysing daily/weekly shortages and plan action accordingly.
- Knowledge about EN Implementation.
- Monthly MRP runs, Communicate schedule changes to suppliers.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor of Engineering; Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical; Bachelor of Engineering in Production; Bachelor of Engineering in Automobile
- 3 - 5 years of relevant Work Experience
Preferred qualifications
- Automotive Industry
- Automobile Manufacturing
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Mahindra Group
The Mahindra Group is a multinational conglomerate federation of companies with a presence across more than 20 industries globally. The group holds leadership positions in utility vehicles, farm equipment, information technology, and financial services. Driven by its core purpose to enable people to Rise, Mahindra operates across over 100 countries.
- Industry
- Conglomerate
- Company size
- 327000+ employees
- Founded
- 1945-10-02
- Location
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman
Group CEO & Managing Director
Group Chief Financial Officer
Group Chief Technology Officer
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